What Is An Tourmaline Hair Dryer?
The heating elements in conventional hair dryers emit positively charged particles. While the hot air may dry your hair, the positive ions have the unfortunate side effect of opening up the cuticle covering the hair shaft, leading to a frizzy, dry and lackluster end result.
Negative ions, on the other hand, help to break down water droplets into much smaller droplets that are easily absorbed into the hair shaft. This helps to cut down the amount of time needed to dry hair, so cutting down on the amount of time it's exposed to damaging heat. Also, because negative ions 'lock in' moisture in the hair, it keeps it healthy, shiny, smooth and gives it more body.
Tourmaline is a semi-precious stone that naturally emits large quantities of negative ions - up to 6 times more than ceramic. Tourmaline is infused onto the heating elements (made of ceramic) and is shown to drastically reduce drying time and to leave hair looking fabulous.
What Is The Best Tourmaline Hair Dryer?
There was a time when you had to pay a lot of money for a tourmaline hair dryer but as more companies release their own versions, prices have started to come down, though you can still pay a lot for some top of the range models. Of the cheaper dryers available, the Conair Infiniti Hair Designer is a good option. It features a straightening attachment with detangling comb, center Tourmaline Ceramic straightening plates, four tension-control settings and a four-position release-lock button.
Costing around the same, the BaByliss PRO TT Tourmaline Hair Dryer is another good product. It has a larger motor than the Conair and has 6 temperature and speed settings.
The T3 Tourmaline Featherweight Hair Dryer costs more than twice the price of the BaByliss. The 100% crushed tourmaline components make it one of the most ionic and infrared hair dryers on the market. It comes with a pretty powerful 1800-watt motor but only weighs 13 ounces.
The above are just 3 of many top rated tourmaline hair dryers. All the brands of hair dryers listed on this site have their own version, so it may be worthwhile seeing what each has to offer interms of function, motor and price.
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