Hair Dryers

Hair dryers are an essential hair styling tool for just about everyone with hair to dry. Such a simple task should make it easy to pick out a hair dryer, right? What makes one hair dryer better than another? Believe it or not, there are definite differences.

The most inexpensive hair dryers typically only have one heat setting. If used every day, they can cause heat damage to your hair. If your hair always feels like a dry, tangled mess, it may be from exposing your hair to high heat every day. Inexpensive models also don't typically have protection over the fan. As a result, those with longer hair can find their hair sucked into the fan damaging it beyond repair.

Mid priced hair dryers are going to provide you with more options than their inexpensive counterparts. This will help to protect the hair from being damaged. Many also feature much of the great technology options including ionic dryers. These dryers produce negatively charged particles, which keep the hair cuticle flat. This traps moisture inside to help eliminate frizz and give more body than standard hair dryers. Ceramic heaters are another option which produces even heat to the hair. Tourmaline dryers boost the ionic power of the hair dryer to help cut drying time with claims of time savings of up to 70%. Vidal Sassoon and Solano are two companies who provide well reputed mid priced hair dryers.

Professional hair dryers are the most expensive and are designed to be used every day, all day. If you are always burning through hair dryers, you may want to consider purchasing something meant for professional use.

Regardless of price, most professional hair stylists advise to purchasing a hair dryer with a minimum of 1800 watt power or more.