Hair Styling Tools

Did you know that according to a recent www.allure.com poll, that 35% of women blow-dry their hair every day?  In reality that is a staggering number.  Knowing this, tells us all that a hairdryer is an essential item for most working women and females that are generally in the age bracket from early teens to women in their 60′s and 70′s.  What all of this equates to in terms of the number of hairdryers in the households of these individuals must be huge.

Looking back in history, I found that the first hand-held dryer was available in the marketplace in 1925 and it only produced 100 watts of heat.  It took an additional 20 years for the wattage to be increased to 300 watts.  Then, in the 1960′s a 500 watt hairdryer was produced.     In the late 1970′s safety was the focus for most manufacturers of hairdryers.  It wasn’t until the 1990′s that a portable hair dryer could produce over 1500 watts of heat.  Up until this time, the only electric motors that were available to be used limited the power that a hairdryer could have.  With time there was improvement in plastic technology and new insulating materials that resulted in the lightweight hairdryers that are available today.

As we all know, today there are 2000 watt professional hairdryers available for purchase today.  For those of us who grew up in the 1960′s and 1970′s it is hard to imagine that we even made it through that period of time with what is now considered archaic hair styling appliances.  Thank goodness for modern technology!!