No more dents
Wore one overnight in a loose bun and woke up without the usual kink. The three colours mean one always matches. Would buy as a gift.
Silk Sleep
Silk Scrunchies (Set of 3)
Written and reviewed by the Soielle team. We research the sleep-beauty essentials and devices we sell and keep every product detail factual and current. Last updated August 2026.
5.0 · 1 reviews£13.99
The hair tie that doesn't leave a crease. Wrapped in mulberry silk over a soft elastic core, these scrunchies hold a ponytail or heatless updo without snagging, denting or snapping strands the way bare elastics do.
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A set of three in ivory, blush and black covers gym, sleep and out-the-door. Gentle enough to wear overnight.
- Mulberry silk outer, soft elastic core
- Set of 3: ivory, blush, black
- Medium size: holds fine and thick hair
- Hand wash cool, air dry
- Dispatched within 1–2 business days of your order.
- Free shipping on all UK orders: estimated delivery 7–10 business days.
- Easy 30-day returns and a 30-day satisfaction guarantee on all purchases.
- 24-hour cancellation window after placing your order.
- Defective or damaged items are replaced at no cost to you.
Why you'll love the Silk Scrunchies (Set of 3)
The dent is the whole point
take a thin elastic out after a few hours and your hair keeps the shape of it: a kink an inch from the ends that survives until you next wash. A wide, soft band does not fold hair into a crease in the first place, which is why this is the tie you can wear to the gym at six and still have hair you can wear down at eight.
Width spreads the pull, and there is no metal crimp to catch on
most of the damage blamed on hair ties comes from two things: all the tension landing on one narrow line, and the little metal join on a cheap elastic snagging strands as the tie turns. A broad silk-covered band spreads the same hold over a much wider area and has nothing hard in it to catch. Tension still matters more than fabric, which is the part nobody selling these says out loud.
Three, because one always disappears
ivory, blush and black covers the three places a hair tie actually lives: the gym bag, the bedside table and your wrist. Medium size, so it holds fine hair in two turns and thick hair in one without going slack by lunchtime.
£13.99 for three, under the specialist shelf
live UK prices, 3 August 2026. The marketplace floor runs £1.88 to £5.45 a piece and the Amazon three-packs sit at £4.99 to £9.99. High-street multipacks land between £8.99 and £14. The named silk specialists start at £10 for a single and reach £47 for a set of three. Three silk-covered scrunchies at £13.99 sits inside the high-street band and well under the specialists, with free UK delivery and 30 days to change your mind.
What a silk scrunchie does, and what it does not
The going claim in this category is some version of zero tension, zero breakage. One of the pages ranking above us says exactly that. It is a good line and it is not true, so here is the honest version.
A scrunchie changes two things. It spreads the holding force over a wide band instead of a narrow one, and it puts a smooth surface against your hair instead of a rough or crimped one. Both reduce the mechanical stress where hair is gathered. That is real, and it is why a silk-covered tie leaves no crease where a thin elastic leaves a fold.
What it does not do is make a tight ponytail safe. Pull hair back hard enough, day after day, in the same place, and the tension goes into the hairline regardless of what the elastic is wrapped in. The American Academy of Dermatology's healthy-hair guidance is consistent on this: handle hair gently and avoid styles that pull it tight. The advice is about how you wear it, not what the tie is made of. A scrunchie makes that advice comfortable to follow. It does not exempt you from it.
So the useful way to think about this is that the tie is the easy half. Wear it looser than you think you need to, move the position of your ponytail around rather than parking it in the same spot every morning, and take it out before you sleep unless you are deliberately protecting a style. Do that with any of the three in this set and you have removed most of the damage a hair tie can do. Buy the most expensive scrunchie on the internet and pull it tight in the same place every day and you have not.
How to use the Silk Scrunchies (Set of 3)
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Two turns for fine hair, one for thick. If you need a third turn to feel secure, the ponytail is too tight rather than the scrunchie too loose.
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Leave a little give. You should be able to slide a finger under the band without fighting it. That is the difference between a hold and a pull.
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Move the position around. A high ponytail every day puts the tension in the same place every day, so alternate high, low and to one side across the week.
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For sleep, go loose and high: a soft pineapple on the very top of the head keeps length off the pillow and puts nothing under the back of your skull.
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Take it out downwards. Slide the band off towards the ends rather than dragging it up through the gathered hair, which is where the tangle happens.
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Wrist duty is fine, and it is one of the quiet reasons to own a wide one: it will not leave the red groove a thin elastic does after an afternoon.
Care and safety
- Hand wash cool with a gentle detergent. Squeeze the suds through the band rather than rubbing it against itself.
- Do not wring. Press the water out between your palms, reshape the gathers while damp and air dry flat, away from radiators and direct sun.
- Wash them about as often as you wash your hair, and sooner if you use oils, dry shampoo or leave-in products: the band picks all of it up.
- Skip fabric softener, bleach and the tumble dryer. Heat is what turns a soft band stiff and slack at the same time.
- Retire one when the elastic core stops recovering. A scrunchie that needs three turns where it used to need two has stretched, and a stretched band gets pulled tighter to compensate, which is the thing you bought it to avoid.
Silk Scrunchies (Set of 3): frequently asked questions
- Are silk scrunchies better than normal hair ties?
- For creasing and snagging, yes, for two specific reasons. A scrunchie is a wide band, so the same hold is spread over a much larger area than a thin elastic concentrates into one line, and a silk-covered surface is smooth with no metal crimp for strands to catch on as the tie turns. That combination is why hair comes out of a scrunchie without the kink an elastic leaves. Where they are not automatically better is tension: a scrunchie pulled tight in the same spot every day still strains the hairline. The fabric handles friction and creasing. How tight you pull it is still on you.
- Do silk scrunchies stop hair breakage?
- They remove a cause of it rather than stopping it outright, and anyone promising zero breakage is overselling. Friction and concentrated tension at the gather point are two real mechanical stresses, and a wide, smooth band reduces both. The other causes are untouched: heat styling, chemical processing, rough detangling and tight styles worn in the same position daily. The American Academy of Dermatology's healthy-hair advice is built around gentle handling and avoiding hairstyles that pull the hair tight, which is the same principle applied across the whole routine. A scrunchie makes the gentle version comfortable. It is not a treatment.
- Can you sleep in a silk scrunchie?
- Yes, and it is one of the better uses for one. Tie it loosely and high on the head so the length sits above the pillow and there is nothing hard under the back of your skull when you turn over. That is the style usually called a pineapple, and it stops a blow-dry or a curl pattern being flattened and rubbed for seven hours. Two things to avoid: do not sleep in it tight, and do not sleep in it on soaking wet hair, because hair is at its most fragile when wet and gathering it under tension is the worst moment to do it. If you want to protect a whole style rather than just the gather point, a bonnet covers the lot.
- What is the difference between silk and satin scrunchies?
- They answer different questions, which is why the comparison is usually muddled. Silk is a fibre, spun by silkworms. Satin is a weave, a way of interlacing threads so the fabric has a smooth face with the floats on one side, and it can be woven from silk, polyester, nylon or a blend. So a satin scrunchie may be silk or may be polyester, and the word on the label does not tell you which. What it does tell you is the surface, and a satin-weave face is smooth by construction, which is the property that matters for friction. The scrunchies in this set have a mulberry silk outer over a soft elastic core.
- How do you wash silk scrunchies?
- By hand, in cool water, with a gentle or pH-neutral detergent. Squeeze the suds through the band rather than rubbing it against itself, rinse until the water runs clear, then press the water out between your palms. Do not wring or twist: that is what distorts the gathers and tires the elastic core. Reshape while still damp and dry flat, out of direct sunlight and away from radiators. No tumble dryer, no fabric softener, no bleach. Wash them about as often as you wash your hair, and more often if you use oils, dry shampoo or overnight leave-ins.
- Do silk scrunchies work on thick or curly hair?
- Yes, and this set is a medium size specifically so it holds both ends of that range: fine hair in two turns, thick hair in one. Thick and curly hair is where the width matters most, because a thin elastic has to be stretched hardest to hold volume, and that is exactly when it digs into a narrow line and snags. Curly and coily hair also breaks more readily at each bend in the strand, so cutting friction at the gather point is worth more rather than less. Keep the ponytail loose, gather rather than compress, and slide the band off downwards so you are not dragging it back through the curl pattern.
Silk Scrunchies (Set of 3)
£13.99
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