Every Kérastase line has one decision hiding inside it. For Nutritive — the range for hair that is dry, rough, dull, or brittle — that decision is the treatment step: Lait Vital or Masquintense, and the answer depends on how thick your hair is, not just how dry. Get that right and the rest of the routine falls into place, including the one product everyone asks how to use: the 8H Magic Night Serum. Here is the decision, the protocol, and the full routine.
First: Is Your Hair Dry — or Frizzy?
A surprising number of people searching for Nutritive are actually looking for Oléo-Relax, and the two solve different problems. Nutritive is for dryness: hair that feels rough and lacks suppleness because it has lost nutrition — the everyday toll of heat styling, hard water, and sun — and of the daily blow-dry most of us use to fight the humidity. Discipline Oléo-Relax is for frizz: thick, coarse hair that swells in humidity, which is a smoothing problem rather than a nourishment one. If your hair is rough and dull, stay here. If it is puffy and swells in humidity, the Oléo-Relax Hair Oil and our Discipline comparison are your guide — and the two can run together: Nutritive to nourish, Oléo-Relax to smooth.
The Cleanse: Satin or Satin Riche
The wash is the easy half of the decision. The Nutritive Satin Shampoo (Bain Satin, 250ml, ₱2,170) is the everyday hydrating cleanse for normal-to-slightly-dry hair — it cleanses while providing optimal fiber nutrition, with no heaviness. If your hair is extremely dry and sensitized and needs more at every wash, the Satin Riche Shampoo (Bain Satin Riche, 250ml, ₱2,170) is the high-nutrition step-up. A simple test: dry only after heat styling → Satin; dry even straight after washing → Satin Riche.
The Decision: Lait Vital vs Masquintense
This is where Nutritive routines go right or wrong, and the rule is about thickness. The Lait Vital Conditioner (200ml, ₱2,680) is a highly nutritious, ultra-light detangling conditioner for fine-to-medium dry hair: it restores moisture, nutrition, and shine from mid-lengths to ends without weighing hair down, and leaves it supple and free-flowing for easy styling. The Masquintense Mask (Thick Hair) (200ml, ₱3,600) is the opposite tool — an ultra-nourishing, ultra-concentrated rich mask that deeply nourishes very dry, medium-to-thick hair. The rich mask weighs fine hair down; the light conditioner under-delivers on thick, very dry hair. Match the product to the strand, not to the dryness alone.
| Lait Vital Conditioner | Masquintense Mask | |
|---|---|---|
| Your hair | Fine to medium, dry | Medium to thick, very dry |
| Texture | Ultra-light, detangling | Ultra-concentrated, rich |
| What it does | Restores moisture, nutrition, and shine mid-lengths to ends without weight | Deeply nourishes very dry hair |
| Where it sits | Your every-wash conditioner | Your treatment step after cleansing — it does the conditioning in the thick-hair routine |
| Size · price | 200ml · ₱2,600 | 200ml · ₱3,500 |
The Hero: How to Use the 8H Magic Night Serum
The 8H Magic Night Serum (90ml, ₱3,680) is Nutritive's most-searched product, and the question that follows it is the same: how do I use it? First, what it is. An overnight leave-in serum for all dry hair types, infused with Iris Root extract and a blend of five vitamins including vitamin E; it deeply penetrates the fiber over eight hours so hair can absorb the nutrients and reverse the day's depletion. The texture is a lightweight, milky-gel cream that melts in and absorbs quickly — on fine hair it helps detangling, on normal-to-coarse hair it gives better manageability — and in the morning hair looks nourished, visibly softer, easier to style, with a lightweight satin finish.
The protocol. Apply to damp or dry hair before bed, working it through the mid-lengths to ends. Leave it in overnight — no rinsing, no heat. Use it two to three nights a week, or as needed when hair feels depleted. It is a no-heat, no-rinse step, so it slots into any routine above without changing your wash days, and it is safe for colored and chemically treated hair.
Before Heat: The Thermique Blow-Dry Mist
If you blow-dry, the Thermique Blow-Dry Mist (150ml, ₱2,780) is the range's leave-in heat protectant: a beautifying, detangling mist with a light, milky essence for dry fine-to-medium hair, applied to towel-dried hair before the dryer. It covers the daytime heat moment; the night serum covers the overnight one — the two are different steps, not alternatives.
How Often — the Nutritive Rhythm
Wash with your Satin or Satin Riche as you normally would. Fine-to-medium hair conditions with Lait Vital at every wash; medium-to-thick, very dry hair uses Masquintense as its treatment step after the Satin Riche wash — the mask is the conditioning step in that routine, not an extra on top of one. The night serum runs two to three nights a week regardless of wash days, and the Thermique mist goes on before every blow-dry. That is the whole rhythm — four steps at most, three on the days you air-dry.
Which Routine Is Yours?
| Your hair | Cleanse | Treat | Overnight | Before heat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fine to medium, dry | Satin Shampoo | Lait Vital Conditioner | 8H Magic Night Serum | Thermique Blow-Dry Mist |
| Medium to thick, very dry | Satin Riche Shampoo | Masquintense Mask | 8H Magic Night Serum | Thermique Blow-Dry Mist |
The Thermique mist is formulated for fine-to-medium hair and is the range's only heat protectant; thick hair can use it lightly before the dryer or choose from the Kérastase heat protectors. Both routines come as ritual sets: the Dry Hair Ritual (Thin Hair) (₱8,530) boxes the Satin Shampoo, Lait Vital, and the night serum; the Dry Hair Ritual (Thick Hair) (₱9,450) boxes the Satin Riche, Masquintense, and the night serum. Pick your row, and three of the four steps arrive in one checkout.
What's Actually in It
Across the range, Nutritive is built on plant-based proteins and niacinamide — nutrient-rich care from scalp to ends designed to nourish and restore suppleness. The night serum adds Iris Root extract and its five-vitamin blend for the overnight work. Two honest notes, because people ask: the Nutritive shampoos are not among the Kérastase sulfate-free shampoos at HairMNL — if sulfate-free is your requirement, the sulfate-free shampoos collection is where to look — and Nutritive is a nourishment line, not a repair line for chemically damaged hair. For the wider map of every Kérastase shampoo by hair type, our complete shampoo guide has it.
One decision — Lait Vital for fine-to-medium, Masquintense for medium-to-thick — one hero used two or three nights a week, and a cleanse and a heat step around them. That is Kérastase Nutritive without the guesswork. Shop the Kérastase Nutritive collection at HairMNL — authentic, with current prices.
