Best dry shampoos to freshen up your hair fast

Dry shampoo has come a long way since the time of coating your scalp in talcum powder in a bid to avoid hair wash day.

You no longer need to spend countless minutes trying (and often failing) to rub the not-so subtle white, dandruff-seeming particles into your hair, and signalling to all that underneath the grey cast you have greasy locks.

After the World Wide Web and the smartphone, we believe dry shampoo as we know it is the greatest invention in the last 100 years. Of course, the concept has been around far longer and there is some evidence to suggest that clay powders were used in Asia as far back as the 15th century.

The formulas are made of oil-absorbing ingredients that