Philips Essential Care BHC010/10 hair dryer Essential Care BHC010/10, 1200 W

13 reviews for Philips Essential Care BHC010/10 hair dryer Essential Care BHC010/10, 1200 W

1. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Yeming Hu – March 18, 2025

   Fast delivery, nice price, works well

2. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Polina – March 31, 2025

   ممتاز ممتاز ممتاز جداً جداً

3. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   amanda kennedy – April 2, 2025

   Excellent

4. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   JASSIM ALBUDOOR – April 16, 2025

   Wollte ein Fön haben, den ich zuhause und unterwegs verwenden kann.
   Dieses Gerät ist dafür gut geeignet.
   Trotz geringer Leistung mit 1200 Watt trocknet es die Haare gut und schonend.
   Mit den Aussatz ist der Luftstrom gerichteter und etwas heißer, dadurch auch etwas schnellere Trocknung.
   Es hat zwei Heizungsstufen nämlich 1000 Watt und bei höchster Stufe 1200 Watt, dadurch wird das Haar, zwar etwas langsamer als bei den 2000 Watt starken Föns aber dadurch schonender.
   Der Fön ist leise mit einen doch hohen Luftdurchsatz.
   Das Gerät hat keinen Lufteinlassfilter den man eh nicht braucht.
   Hatte vorher einen Fön von Braun mit 2000 Watt Leistung, der auch keinen Staubfilter hatte und das Gerät nach ca. 30 Jahren immer noch vollen Luftdurchsatz hatte.
   Da der Fön einen klappbaren Griff hat und sehr leicht ist sowie für 110 und 230 Volt verwendbar ist, ist er für Reisen super geeignet.
   Bin sehr zufrieden.

5. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   freddynet – May 3, 2025

   It’s very powerful for a hairdryer this small. The price is really good. It sometimes overheats and turns off but then works like nothing happened so I’d say a really good buy

6. 

   Rated 1 out of 5

   Exploration HSE Advisor – May 5, 2025

   The most useless product I used ever

7. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   Marlene Hart – May 9, 2025

   Excellent value

8. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Apianoska – May 19, 2025

   Very good BASIC item, light,handy for everyday home needs.

9. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Zuhri – May 20, 2025

   A small gift to my mum and she’s pleased!

10. 

    Rated 1 out of 5

    Furla Radley – May 20, 2025

    At no point in the description does it mention the rather crucial detail that this does NOT come with a UK plug. Useless. Is going straight back.

11. 

    Rated 3 out of 5

    tgdn – May 24, 2025

    Nice and sturdy, quite strong for the size,I took of one star because the cool shot is very weak, compared with the hot setting.

12. 

    Rated 5 out of 5

    Dom – June 4, 2025

    حلو قوي وصل زي المعروض بالظبط ودرجات الحرارة بتاعته حلوة معقوله للاستخدام البسيط وحجمه و وزنه مريح للايد و حلو قوي للسفر عشان بيتطبق

13. 

    Rated 2 out of 5

    Exploration HSE Advisor – June 12, 2025

    I am for ever on the lookout for good hair dryers. Before pandemic I was “on the road”, more like in the desert of on the high seas for 6 to 9 months of the year. This is the reason I favour “travel dryer” design especially if it is multi-voltage enabled. Every few years I want to change whichever one I was using because they don’t last forever and if & when they do burn out, I won’t be able to get another one until I return home. This is a good reason why there is always at least a good working spare one at home.

    Until two weeks ago my favourite use at home model was a T3 Fit Compact (single voltage only) because it had cold shot button and was quiet. However, with much disappointment the cold shot button (or the temperature control) malfunctioned such that it stayed at the low cool or tepid temperature no matter which switch settings were selected.

    Straight away replaced it with the next dryer on the wishlist, i.e. this Philips Essential BCH010/10. Yes the handle folds but it is only single voltage (220-240V) suited to UK and EU. It came with EU Schuko plug, which is what I want for travelling. Most of the work assignment destinations I get sent to use this socket, far more than those using UK sockets. A few use AU and US but far fewer in comparison. So far so good. Switch it on, cool to tepid air; fine, no problems. Turn swiching next notch up to low heat. BIG problem. Too loud.

    Loud enough for me to dig out the noise meter. Below are noise output for various model of dryer in the photo at the low heat setting. If the dryer has cold shot or a cool setting in the switch, there is another reading. I am no expert on noise; seeing as the HSE regulation give figures in dBA, that is the unit I use on the noise meter. (It is in the middle of the photo.) All measurements were made 10cm from the meter as that is about average distance I move the dryer about my (ears) head.

    Dryer Model, Low Heat reading, Cold Shot or Cool Setting

    Braun Travelair 1000 104
    Philips Discovery Travel 1200 101
    Philips Silence 1500 99
    Optima Silver Travel 99 105
    Philips BHD006 (1500watts) 106 101
    Innocare HD1600 102 102
    Braun HD350 107
    T3 Compact 106 109
    Philips Essential BHC010/10 113 102
    (The reveiws do not allow tabulated results.)

    As you can see in the tabulated results, this Philips is by bar the loudest. Bear in mind a 3dB increase is doubling in sound (as the decibels are on a logarithmic scale not linear scale) you can see why I am too scared to use it, for I fear to loose my hearing.

    For the life of me I can’t understand why the designers made it so loud. The cool setting is 102 which is not that far off the others at low heat settings so all the designer had to do was to increase the temperature. NO, they not only did that but put the fan on full blast also – yes, the fan is on the same speed as at high heat. Why ? Why not keep the fan on low speed as the cool setting ? I never use any dryer on high heat setting for fear of damaging hair or scalp (and now I have to consider noise too).