Especially in this weather you shouldn’t go outside with wet hair. A hair dryer can help here. However, five devices in the product test died out early in the endurance test or the cables broke in the safety test. There is a good hairdryer for 23 euros.
You can almost be glad that you are no longer subject to the hairstyle fashion of the 1980s. Because here a blow-dried hairstyle was mandatory for both sexes. Which means a certain amount of effort and also costs money – keyword electricity costs. But apart from that, the hair dryer is still used today after almost every hair wash. Unless dry shampoo is used.
Stiftung Warentest tested 14 hair dryers, including models from Braun, Dyson, Philips, Panasonic and Remington. The cheapest hair dryer costs well under 30 euros, the most expensive more than 400 euros.
To test durability and safety, the testers dropped the hair dryers on the tiled floor in the laboratory, blow-dried them for 400 hours at a time – with cooling breaks – and bent their cables umpteen times. Everyone survived the fall. In the endurance test, however, two devices ran out of breath (“Beurer StylePro HC 55” and “Proficare PC-HTD 3047”), while three others failed in the bending test (“Babyliss Hydro Fusion D773DE”, “Remington Proluxe You AC9800” and “Valera Excel 2000). Ionic”. All five were therefore rated “inadequate”.
Some hair dryers come with several nozzles, others only a few, some nozzles cannot be rotated. The devices are of different weights, their cables are of different lengths. If you need ten minutes or more to dry your hair, you might be looking for a lightweight device. The study shows: the heavier the hair dryer and the shorter its cord, the more likely it is that you will lose the pleasure of using the hair dryer. The devices from Grundig and the Remington Proluxe, the heaviest at 723 grams, were a bit too heavy in the long run.
In addition, many providers advertise that their blow dryers can bring unruly hair back to its senses. The idea behind it: the ion function. However, large differences could not be determined in the laboratory.
The test winner is the most expensive device in the test, the “Dyson Supersonic” for 430 euros. He does his hair well, has a lot of extra nozzles and only weighs 499 grams (“good”, 1.7). The price-performance winner is the good “Koenic KHD 4221 AC” for only 23 euros (“good”, 2.0). The equally good “Philips BHD510/00 5000 Series 3” is available for around 50 euros (1.8).
