Best Toning Products for Blonde Hair in South Africa, 2025

Best Toning Products for Blonde Hair in South Africa, 2024

Our selection of the best toning products for blonde hair in South Africa includes specialised shampoos, conditioners and hair masks. We also offer a FAQ on toning and toning products for blonde hair.

The best toning products for blonde hair eliminate brassy tones while reviving cooler blonde hues. They also nourish the hair, leaving it healthy and shiny.

These products can also work wonders for silver or grey hair, counteracting any yellowing and leaving the hair a brighter, fresher colour.

Best toning shampoo

Looking for icy, Scandinavian blonde locks? The intense black pigments in this highly-rated OSMO shampoo counteract unwanted yellow and orange undertones to deliver the coolest platinum blonde.

Formulated with nourishing hydrolysed soy protein, jojoba oil and rice extract, there’s no risk of your hair drying out. After just a few minutes, your tresses are left super radiant, super healthy, super white blonde. For more intense results, follow with OSMO Super Ice Brightening Mask.

What we like:

  • sulphate-free formula
  • cruelty free
  • Scandinavian “blonde”
  • made in the UK
  • plant-based nutrients.

Best runner-up toning shampoo

Another five-star shampoo from OSMO, this product can be used as a toner after bleaching or as a regular shampoo to banish yellow, brassy tones. We love its luxurious fragrance.

If you have super-lightened bleached or grey hair, this is the product for you. Leave it in for three to five minutes and the super-violet pigments will neutralise brassy tones, delivering cool silver/ash hues instead. For best results, follow with OSMO Silverising Violet Mask or OSMO Super Silver No Yellow Mask.

What we like:

  • cruelty free
  • sulphate-free formula
  • suitable for natural hair
  • super-violet pigments
  • luxurious fragrance.

Best toning conditioner

This Superplex toning conditioner is rated one of the best toning products for blonde hair worldwide – and it delivers two treatments in one. The formulation combines Superplex’s classic hair-repair bonding ingredients to fix damaged strands with blue-violet pigments to revive cool blonde tones.

It’s ideal for coloured, bleached or highlighted hair. The keratin and natural oils infuse the hair, while the violet pigment revives colour, leaving cool blonde tresses that are smooth and intensely shiny.

What we like:

  • double-action formulation
  • dermatologically tested
  • infused with eight natural oils
  • creamy, light texture
  • rebuilds hair from inside out.

Best runner-up toning conditioner

Looking for beachy-blonde shades loaded with shimmer and shine? This 100% vegan toning conditioner is specifically formulated to take natural, highlighted and bleached blonde hair from dull to dazzling.

It offers a mega-dose of hydrating antioxidants and moisturising plant-derived proteins – betaine (from sugar beet), linseed extract, panthenol and rice protein. These natural products penetrate and fortify damaged strands, while turmeric extract brightens and enhances blonde hues.

What we like:

  • must-have for beach lovers
  • calms and hydrates irritated scalp
  • lychee and mango fragrance
  • free from sulphates, parabens, gluten and sodium chloride (salt)
  • 100% vegan.

Best colour-depositing conditioner

This timed-release colour-deposit conditioner adds more colour the longer it’s left on. Use it to tone, adjust, refine and personalise your colour to maintain it or create bright and vibrant shades. The more often you use it, the more permanent the colour becomes.

While it refreshes colour, it also provides intense conditioning and fixes bonds. Just one application results in hair that’s three times stronger and healthier.

It’s the ideal toner for blondes, whites, silvers, foil highlights and balayage, and it neutralises yellow and brassy tones in natural grey, white and blonde hair.

Have a look at the extensive range of Colorditioners from Celeb Luxury, as well as its Colorwash shampoos.

What we like:

  • Colorposit™adds and replenishes colour
  • semi-temporary colour
  • rebuilds bonds
  • intensifies or changes the tone of lightened hair
  • UV protection.

Best toning mask

It may seem counterintuitive to put black carbon on blonde hair, but this toning carbon complex consists of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants andvegetable black carbon, so don’t be afraid.

It’s a delicate toning mask treatment that fights yellow undertones, purifying hair colour to reveal beautiful lighter shades of blonde, white and grey.It’s also deeply nourishing, with active ingredients that penetrate the hair to reconstruct it from the cortex.

Complete the routine with the Black Carbon Toning Shampoo.

What we like:

  • free of parabens, silicones and sulphates
  • 100% vegan
  • made in Italy
  • deeply nourishing.

Best super-affordable toning mask

This excellent value toning mask is the perfect product for anyone (particularly men) with greying hair who want to “silverise” dull grey hair or add some dark tones.

The black hair mask boosts, extends, refreshes and maintains the depth of colour in grey, blonde, silver and white hair while deeply nourishing dry, chemically-damaged strands. Use once a week for 20 to 30 minutes.

What we like:

  • deeply conditioning
  • sun and UV protection
  • neutralises yellow tones
  • adds darker grey tones
  • silverises dull grey.

FAQs

A. The best option is to choose toning products for blonde hair that are used after the bleaching process and/or to banish yellow and brassy tones. Choose a pigmented toning shampoo that suits your hair and desired blonde colour, followed by a toning conditioner or treatment mask, twice a week.

A. Any product that uses pigment to change hair tone can be described as a toner. Purple shampoo distributes purple or violet pigment throughout hair to neutralise brassy tones. Some purple shampoos are formulated to maintain blonde hues and others can be used as a toner after the bleaching process.

A. To blonde hair, hairdressers take two steps. The first is bleaching the hair, which removes the natural pigment. Then, to achieve the desired blonde, they use a toning product. This can be permanent, semi-permanent or a shampoo/conditioner. It depends on the blonde hue desired and the client’s original hair colour.

A. This will depend on your original hair colour and the blonde hue you desire. Ask your hairdresser for advice and which product to use to maintain the desired blonde.