2008 Archives: Silence HP: Green, Eco-Friendly Hair Dryer
Although we know plenty of people who log about as many hours with their hairdryer as they do with their significant other, we’re fairly low-maintenance kind of girls. So when presented with the idea of a Silence HP hair dryer, we were kind of blasé about it. What can it really do that’s all so different? A dryer’s a dryer’s a dryer’s, right? Wrong.
First of all, while it isn’t altogether silent, it is ridiculously less loud than those other hair dryers on the market. You can actually have a conversation without shouting while simultaneously blowing on high. And it utilizes trendy negative-ion technology through the addition of crushed tourmaline added to its plastic formulation. We don’t know if that’s the reason but our hair did, indeed, feel thicker. Yay! Sign us up!
But the kicker is the motor, which is frictionless so it uses two-thirds less power than a regular dryer. The air stream actually does feel weaker than a typical hairdryer, but, miraculously, it gets your hair dry just as fast.
Now two-thirds less power isn’t so much when you’re using it for under a minute each day. But for those among us whose arm muscles stay buff from holding up the roller brush each morning, this can add up to a lot of fossil-fueled electricity savings—not to mention a bit of a dent in your utility bill. Plus, each Silence HP hair dryer comes with a lifetime warranty designed to keep it out of the landfill.
