How much electricity does a weekly beauty routine use?
Recently, we’ve been using a power meter to find out how much electricity our domestic appliances are using, and asking for polite suggestions where we could stick it next.
Barbara McStravick suggested that we connected up to the electrical products used in a daily beauty routine, so one intrepid Living contributor has done just that.
The results aren’t exactly hair raising, but they show that grooming appliances, particularly ones that produce heat, do get through a fair amount of electricity. You might only use a hairdryer for a couple of minutes, for example, but while it’s running our 2,200W model uses as much power as the kettle. It got through around 0.08 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity per session.
Splitting hairs
Our hair straighteners, on the other hand, used less than 300W when running, but using them for around eight minutes at a time means that they actually consumed more power than the hairdryer; around 0.1 kWh per session.
Our typical week involved three beauty routines that on average lasted 12 minutes and used around 0.19kWh of electricity – a total of 0.56 kWh per week, which costs around 5p. That’s the lowest weekly consumption we’ve measured from the appliances we’ve tested so far, suggesting that beauty doesn’t come at a price after all.
If you’ve got a (polite) suggestion for where we can stick our power meter next, please add a comment or send us an email.
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Originally posted 2007-11-15 16:23:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
