
How to Clean Your Blowdryer
Not that long ago my mom was visiting and asked to borrow my blowdryer. Ten seconds into drying her hair she exclaimed, Don’t you ever clean this thing? I looked at her, dumbfounded, and she looked at me the way only a mother can when they are disappointed in the fact that their late-20-something child can barely survive on their own. Then she taught me how to clean my blowdryer. Prior to this I was a serial-blowdryer-replacer. I’d use one for 12-18 months and then replace it. As it would gradually start to require more and more time to dry my hair I would become convinced that it was junking out on me. If only I had known then that what I needed to do was clean the lint from the filter. Please tell me I’m not alone here? Hello? Anyone? Turns out that cleaning your blowdryer is embarrassingly simple and is basically the same for all makes and models:
1. With your dryer unplugged (obviously), locate the air intake. This will likely be capped but the cover should be easily removable. Mine simply twists off.
2. Eww, dirt! Underneath the cap you’ll likely find a build-up of lint. I cleaned mine about 8 weeks ago and this is how g-r-o-s-s it already is.
3. Use an orange stick or toothpick to simply pull out the lint buildup.
4. Replace the cap and you’ll be left with a pile of dust bunnies and a blowdryer that is just. like. new. Thanks, Mom!
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Warm Wishes,
Kitty
Wow my mom and I have never cleaned our blowdryer either…… I didn’t even know that it has to be cleaned…
Checking mine as soon as I get home from work tonight!
This is an awesome post and the truth! So many people do not ever even think about cleaning their blow dryer! Myself, I vacuum my filter every week…thus never really letting it get clogged up so I have to clean it with chemicals or soak it. I just love your blog! So glad I just found it!
Susan Ramsey
http://www.iwbodywraps.com
OMG! This is an amazing post. I don’t think I have EVER done this… I am so scared to look into my blowdryer. It is going to be seriously gross. Thanks for the how to.
I never comment, but I had to because I had the EXACT SAME CONVERSATION with my MOM when she was visiting a few weeks ago! She gave me the same lesson yours gave you and mine is also as good as new. How did I not know this until now?!
Had NO IDEA this needed to be cleaned until my boyfriend saw my blow dryer tonight. GROSS. Cleaning out ASAP!!!!
The best thing about this post is that my dryer is the same model as yours! I wasn’t sure that end cap would unscrew but when you said it would, I got mine off! Thanks!
I use the vacuum cleaner and crevice tool. No disassembly. No mess. Easily less than ten second fix.
Can’t claim inspired creativity. More like a lazy “what if” before tossing what I thought was a dying blow dryer. MUCH better now.