Only the Two Cheapest Hair Dryers List Their Wattage

The Remington PROluxe AC9140 costs 81.99 EUR and tells you it runs at 2400 watts. The Dyson Supersonic r Straight+Wavy costs 479 EUR, nearly six times as much, and its product page does not give a wattage figure at all. Of the six hair dryers in our database with a disclosed price, only two publish a wattage number, and both are the cheapest ones on the list. If motor power is the spec you want to compare before you buy, four out of six models simply will not let you.

Key takeaways:

• Only 2 of 6 priced hair dryers in our database publish a wattage figure: the Remington PROluxe AC9140 (81.99 EUR, 2400W) and the ghd helios (229 EUR, 2200W), the two cheapest models on the list.
• All 4 Dyson Supersonic models we track (289 to 479 EUR) omit a wattage number from their own product pages, even though three of them do list an attachment count.
• The cheapest priced model, the Remington at 81.99 EUR, discloses 200 more watts (9.1 percent more) than the ghd at 229 EUR, and more than any Dyson model that costs up to 397.01 EUR more.
• The three Dyson models that list an attachment count each ship 5, against 3 for the Remington, Philips and BaByliss models, one disclosed way the pricier machines differ.
• Hair dryers carry no EU energy label at all, the same regulatory gap already found on this site for blenders, coffee machines, microwaves and toasters.

Why can’t you compare hair dryer power by price?

Because half the priced lineup does not give you the number. Line up every hair dryer in our database with a disclosed price, from cheapest to priciest, and the wattage column goes empty exactly where the prices get high. The Remington and the ghd, the two least expensive models, both state their wattage plainly on the manufacturer’s own page. Every Dyson Supersonic variant we track, from the 289 EUR Travel up to the 479 EUR Straight+Wavy, leaves that field blank.

That split is not a coincidence of sample size. It runs the full length of the price range: the single cheapest model and the single priciest model sit at opposite ends of both the price axis and the disclosure line, with nothing in between to blur the pattern.

Does the cheaper hair dryer actually have less power?

Going by what each brand chooses to publish, no. The Remington at 81.99 EUR states 2400 watts. The ghd at 229 EUR states 2200 watts, 200 fewer, despite costing 147.01 EUR (64.2 percent) more. None of the four Dyson models gives a number to compare against either of them. If you are shopping on watts because that is the one figure you know how to read on a hair dryer, the cheapest model in our database currently gives you a bigger one than the priciest four combined, simply because they choose not to answer the question at all.

That does not mean the Remington is objectively the stronger dryer, or that Dyson’s machines run weaker than their price suggests. A brushless digital motor and a resistive heating coil are not directly comparable on a watts basis the way two similar designs would be, and Dyson’s own marketing leans on outcomes, drying time, heat protection, attachment precision, rather than raw electrical draw. The honest reading is narrower than a power ranking: on the one spec that hair dryers have historically been sold by, the priciest brand in our database gives you nothing to check, and the cheapest one gives you a number that happens to beat it.

Slug	Model	Price (EUR)	Power (W)	Attachments	Heat settings	Speed settings	Cool shot
remington-proluxe-ac9140	Remington PROluxe AC9140	81.99	2400	3	3	2	Yes
ghd-helios	ghd helios	229	2200	N/A	N/A	N/A	Yes
dyson-supersonic-travel	Dyson Supersonic Travel	289	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
dyson-supersonic-nural	Dyson Supersonic Nural	399	N/A	5	N/A	N/A	N/A
dyson-hd07-nickel-copper	Dyson HD07 Nickel/Kupfer	449	N/A	5	4	3	Yes
dyson-supersonic-r-straight-wavy	Dyson Supersonic r Straight+Wavy	479	N/A	5	N/A	N/A	N/A
philips-bhd510-20	Philips 5000 Series BHD510/20	N/A	2300	3	3	2	Yes
babyliss-air-power-pro-d6555du	BaByliss Air Power Pro D6555DU	N/A	1700	3	4	3	Yes

Note: the Philips BHD510/20 and BaByliss Air Power Pro carry no disclosed price on their own product pages, so they are excluded from every price-based comparison above. Both are shown here because they do publish a wattage figure, 2300W and 1700W, reinforcing that stating wattage is not a technical hurdle these brands cannot clear, only one some choose not to.

What do the pricier Dyson models disclose instead?

Attachment count, mostly. Three of the four Dyson models in our database, the Supersonic Nural, the HD07 Nickel/Kupfer and the Supersonic r Straight+Wavy, each list 5 attachments. The Remington, Philips and BaByliss models that do disclose wattage list 3 apiece. That is a real, checkable difference, two more styling attachments per box, and it is the kind of number a shopper can actually weigh against the price gap, unlike the missing wattage field.

It is worth being precise about what this does and does not prove. It does not mean Dyson’s dryers are underpowered, or that two extra attachments are what the other 200 to 400 euros is buying, the price difference likely also reflects the digital motor design, build materials and brand positioning, none of which this dataset can put a euro figure on. What it does show is which claims you can actually verify before paying: attachment count, yes, for three of four Dyson models; motor wattage, no, for any of them.

Does the EU energy label cover hair dryers?

No. Checked directly against the European Commission’s own Ecodesign and energy-label product list, hair dryers do not appear on it, alongside washing machines, dishwashers, ovens and the other categories that do carry an A-to-G rating. That gap matches what this site has already found for blenders, coffee machines, microwaves and toasters. Our guide to reading the EU energy label covers which categories the label does apply to; a hair dryer shopper will not find one to check here regardless of brand, so the manufacturer’s own spec sheet, thin as it sometimes is, is the only public data available.

Compare the current lineup at /hair-dryers/ and check each product page for yourself before assuming a higher price comes with a bigger number behind it. Sometimes it comes with no number at all.