The Best Blow-dryer

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Which is the best blow dryer for hair?

Dedicated to conducting unbiased testing and publishing unbiased revues on the performance of blow dryers for hair.

This site came about because of the difficulty experienced in purchasing blow dryers that provide good performance. The packaging and promotional material for the dryers simply does not contain sufficient information for a consumer to draw accurate conclusions regarding how the blowdryer will perform.

The original idea came from a 5th grade science project at St. Timothy's School in Raleigh North Carolina, and we would like to give them credit. We enhanced the concept, conducted further tests and have published the materials on this site. Unlike many of the other sites that "claim" to review blowdryers, we actually do just that. Each blow dryer is placed in a test fixture and identical measurements are made on each one. We have no loyalty or allegiance to any manufacturer and simply want to provide the public with the best possible information with which to make their blow dryer purchase.

While we have an extensive list of measurements which we wish to collect and features we wish to test, our latest round of testing focused on seven characteristics.

Each Blowdryer is tested for:

  1. Blower Output

  2. Heat Output

  3. Free Standing Air Velocity

  4. Free Standing Air Temperature
The following measurements are collected on each blowdryer:
  1. Weight

  2. Size (l x h x w)

  3. Cost

Blower Output
The most heavily weighted factor in our judgement of blow dryers is the ability to move air.  Too many times has our family brought home what we felt would be a good blowdryer, only to be dissappointed in the overall "blowing capacity".  We have developed our own custom test fixture in which we test every model.  A free-standing velocity meter and thermometer is also used to double check our measurements.

Heat Output While in our general experience, we felt heat output was adequate on most models, we felt it beneficial to quantify this feature as well.  Temperature measurements were made from our test fixture and also during our "free standing" measurements.

Velocity
As a control to guard against the Heisenberg effect manifestations within our test fixture, we also conducted "free standing" velocity tests in which a digital velocity meter was fixed in the center of the stream, six inches from the mouth of the blow dryer.

Free Standing Air Temperature
During our "free standing" tests temperature was measured from the center of the stream at a distance of six inches from the mouth of the hair dryer.

Weight
The weight is collected in grams to an accuracy of +/- one gram.

Size (l x h x w)
The length, height, and width are recorded in inches.

Cost
The cost of purchase is recorded in USD.

Our recent results can be found at:
Hair dryer Testing Results, detailing the rankings of recently tested hair dryers.
http://www.BestBlowDryer.com/BlowDryerResults.html

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Main Site for consumer information on hair dryer Performance
http://www.BestBlowDryer.com/  

Information on Hair Dryer Performance
http://www.BestBlowDryer.com/Best_Hair_Dryer.html  

Details on features, characteristics and measurments involved in determining the best hair dryer performance. 
http://www.BestBlowDryer.com/BestBlowDryer.html  

Obsolete hair dryer page from 2003, ranking CONAIR and Vidal Sassoon hair dryers. 
http://www.BestBlowDryer.com/BestBlowdryer.html  

Hair dryer Features, informal survey on the most improtant hair dryer performance characteristics. 
http://www.BestBlowDryer.com/BlowDryer-Features.html  

Hair dryer Testing Results, detailing the rankings of recently tested hair dryers. 
http://www.BestBlowDryer.com/BlowDryerResults.html  

Hair dryer Conclusions, summary of hair dryer testing results. 
http://www.BestBlowDryer.com/Blow_Dryer-Conclusions.html  

Hair dryer Images, images of recently tested hair dryers. 
http://www.BestBlowDryer.com/Blow_Dryer-Images.html  

Summary of hair dryer parameters with links to further details at http://www.BestBlowDryer.com/BestBlowdryer.html
http://www.BestBlowDryer.com/Blow_Dryer.html  

Original 5th grade hair dryer Science paper that started the effort to review hair dryers.
http://www.BestBlowDryer.com/Blow_Dryer_Testing-RevC.html  

Details on the best hair dryer, along with other hair dryer links.
http://www.BestBlowDryer.com/Blowdryer.html  

Original outline for 5th grade hair dryer project.
http://www.BestBlowDryer.com/which_is_the_best_hair_blow_dryer.html  

Links to sites involving blowdryer performance.
http://www.bestblowdryer.com/Best_Blowdryer_Sites.html  

Links to sites involving blowdryer performance.
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