With the improvement of living standards, garment steamers (also known as ironers or irons) have become one of the essential appliances in many families, which can effectively care for all kinds of clothes, quickly smooth the folds of clothes through high-temperature steam, and ensure that clothes are clean and tidy. But at the same time as the garment steamer exploded, there were also many negative comments about it, such as the peculiar smell, poor ironing effect, damage to clothes, etc., which frequently appeared on the Internet. As an experienced fashion designer, I still know a lot about this problem. Today, I will combine my experience to reveal the hazards and other knowledge of garment steamers for you, and help you understand the product of garment steamers. (The picture below is a garment steamer product I bought myself.) ）
1. Is there any harm in garment steamer?
Is there any harm in garment steaming machine? The ironing effect of high-quality garment steamer is still very significant, and there is no harm, but many inferior garment steamers have rough workmanship, lack of professional technology, and the ironing effect is average, damaging clothes, and even water leakage and other safety hazards will occur during use. The following picture is the opinion published by professional bloggers, explaining the hazards that may result from garment steamers.
The hazards of garment steamers are mainly in the following four categories:
Hazard 1, pungent odor
The component materials used in the inferior garment steamer are of inferior quality, and after a period of high temperature work, it is easy to produce unpleasant odors, which affects the freshness of clothes and harms everyone's health.
Hazard 2, burning clothes
Many unprofessional garment steaming machines have problems such as inaccurate temperature control and excessive power, and the garment steaming machine is difficult to be compatible with clothes of different fabrics, especially high-end surfaces such as velvet and silk are likely to be damaged in the ironing process, resulting in clothes being scalded yellow and scorched.
Hazard 3, burn the skin
If the structure of the garment steamer and the design of the grip are not scientific and reasonable, the high-temperature steam will easily burn everyone's skin during use.
Hazard 4, there are serious safety hazards
In order to save production costs, the inferior garment steamer will choose poor quality wires, and will not take into account the scientific and reasonable circuit design, and the garment steamer needs to work in a high temperature and high pressure environment, and the power is relatively high, and the use of these inferior products is easy to cause fire, electric shock and other safety accidents, which is particularly dangerous.
2. Summarize the six common negative reviews of garment steamers and be vigilant!
Is there any harm to the garment steamer? The above has summarized the harm of the garment steamer, many friends may want to ask, why the garment steamer has these hazards? Next, I will give you an analysis of the real reason for the harm of the garment steamer! The following figure is a statistical chart of the negative evaluation of the garment steamer released by the authority, with high reference value, from these data, the unprofessional garment steamer is the culprit of the harm, in order to help everyone stay away from these unprofessional products, I combined with the data to summarize the six common garment steamer bad reviews, we must be vigilant.
1. There are too many promotions
Since the main consumer group of garment steamer is female users, businesses take advantage of the fact that consumers like to take advantage of small advantages, crazy promotion and price reduction, and the frequency of promotion is much higher than that of other industries!
2. Poor product compatibility
Many garment steamers advertise that they can iron any clothes, but in the actual use process, you can find that this kind of garment steamer has very poor compatibility with clothes of different fabrics, and it is easy to damage clothes when used, and the ironing effect is relatively poor.
3. The amount of steam is small, and the ironing effect is poor
Many people complain that the garment steamer is different from the advertised when bought home, and the ironing effect is very poor. Because the steam volume of this kind of unprofessional garment steamer is relatively small, the steam distance is also short, and the permeability and uniformity have not been optimized by technical tuning, it is difficult to achieve good ironing results and it is difficult to deal with deep folds.
4. Damage to clothing
The damage to clothes is complained about by many garment steamer users, even if it is a lot of high-priced Internet celebrity big-name products, so everyone should pay special attention when buying
5. There is a pungent odor
Many garment steamers because of poor material selection, unqualified workmanship, in the high temperature environment is easy to produce irritating odor, after long-term use of garment steamer body material is corroded, there will be obvious pungent odor, not only will pollute the freshness of clothes, but also affect health.
6. There is a pungent odor
Many garment steamers are prone to irritating odors at high temperatures due to poor materials and poor workmanship, and after long-term use, the body materials will be corroded, resulting in a large odor, so be cautious of the negative impact on clothing and body.
3. Carefully inventory the eight strategies for garment steamer purchase!
Although the garment steamer has been highly recognized by authoritative experts, experts and media from all walks of life with its excellent ironing performance and convenient use experience, we must not blindly buy when buying a garment steamer, because there are still products on the market with poor ironing performance, damage to clothes and potential safety hazards. So, how to choose a garment steamer? I have summarized the following eight purchase strategies, hoping to help you easily choose the right garment steamer!
Strategy 1: Choose a brand with strong professional and technical strength
The professional garment steamer brand has strong technical strength, through long-term repeated technical adjustment and optimization, it can ensure the accuracy of product temperature control and steam uniformity, not only the ironing effect is good, but also not easy to damage the clothes. Professional brands have been strictly tested for many core parameters such as temperature control accuracy, steam distance, and steam uniformity, so that even if it is used for a long time, it will not quickly consume the performance of the garment steamer.
Strategy 2: Ceramic glazed panels are preferred
Compared with panels made of other materials, ceramic glazed panels are smoother, less likely to cause damage to clothes during ironing, and will not rust due to too long use, less odor, and more convenient to clean.
Strategy 3: Prefer metal heaters
The heater is the "heart" of the garment steamer, and we should choose products equipped with metal heaters in the purchase. The metal heater has low thermal efficiency loss, good energy storage effect, fast heat conduction, uniform steam, not easy to accumulate scale, good performance and not easy to damage clothes, and has a relatively long service life.
Strategy 4: Buy a garment steamer with uniform steam
The uniformity/stability of the steam volume must be considered, which has relatively high requirements for the heating panel, heating pipe, water pump, etc., if the steam volume is uneven and unstable, it is likely to cause damage to the clothing.
Strategy 5: Choose a product with a good thermostat
The thermostat can control the heating temperature of the garment steamer, and in the face of different fabrics and gears, different temperatures need to be selected to iron and remove wrinkles, so the quality of the thermostat is very critical.
Strategy 6: Prefer a multi-functional garment steamer
There are many types of garment steamers, such as multi-functional garment steamers, vertical garment steamers, handheld garment steamers, etc. I recommend the multi-functional garment steamer, it has the same excellent ironing performance as the vertical garment steamer, and also has the characteristics of being as small and portable as a handheld garment steamer, and supports garment ironing, flat ironing, steam ironing, etc., of course, the premise is that you choose professional brand products!
Strategy 7: Choose products with good compatibility
It is recommended that you choose those garment steamers with many gears, large steam volume, and many modes (wet ironing/dry ironing, etc.), which can meet the ironing needs of different fabrics, and can do dry and wet ironing.
Strategy 8: Don't blindly pursue big names
The price of many big-name garment steamers is as high as thousands of yuan, in fact, the premium is high, regardless of the material, quality and performance are not so high cost, more money is spent on marketing, ironing effect and compatibility, does not hurt the performance of the clothes is not much improved.
When buying garment steamers, you can find that many garment steamer brands advertise that they do not hurt clothes, which must not be easily believed, because most of them are false claims made by inferior products. In order to help you buy a garment steamer with good performance and no damage to clothes, I specially found the performance and clothing damage index results of the garment steamer released by the authority for your reference, and summarized several easy-to-use garment steamers for you in combination with the data in the figure and my own evaluation experience.
In recent years, there have been many cases of garment steamer damage to clothes and poor ironing effect. As the originator of the field of "no damage to clothes", Gong Ling has the most professional clothing technology in this field, and has created 13 black technologies such as HI-VI strong pulse pressurized steam technology, approved DEER-SS fast cycle dynamic compensation technology, PE supramolecular electric vapor permeation technology, etc., in the actual test, the ironing effect of deep and complex fabrics has been increased by 137.2%, and the clothing damage rate has been reduced by 93.9%, and the compatibility with different fabrics has also been improved by 93%, which is rare to obtain EU certification! Compared with all domestic and commercial ironing machines/garment steamers, Gongling has excellent comprehensive performance and dominates the list in many aspects, such as the highest continuous steam density, the first steam volume pressure, the best steam permeability, the best compatibility with clothing and the lowest clothing damage rate.
Gong Ling also supports flat ironing, hanging iron, steam ironing, etc., due to the relative complexity of clothing, fabric material, weaving, density, process, material splicing, wrinkle resistance, air permeability, etc., the general garment steamer can only simply iron the fabric of the garment, while Gong Ling is compatible with 99% of the fabric of the garment, it can achieve the effect of deep wrinkle removal of the thousand-yuan level commercial ironing machine and has the small size of the handheld garment steamer!
What's even more rare is that, unlike most other brands on the market that focus too much on beauty design, it specializes in non-compromising clothing technology and deep ironing performance, and is a brand that purely pursues professional technology. Gong Ling has never done gimmick advertising, relying on the affirmation and recommendation of many industry authorities and professional home appliance evaluators, the product has long been ranked first in the major word-of-mouth and sales rankings! Gong Ling as one of the very few professional brands that have been certified by the European Union and other countries, and its products have been exported to Europe and the United States for a long time, and has been recognized by more than 500 professional evaluators of home appliances as the strongest protection for clothing!
As a brand that has been focusing on the field of B2C household appliances for a long time, Gong Ling has invested a lot of energy in the research and development of high performance and high durability under the "no damage to clothes", the original HI-VI strong pulse pressurized steam technology, the approved DEER-SS fast cycle dynamic compensation technology, PE supramolecular electric steam penetration technology and other black technologies, selected all-copper fireproof wire, four-layer smooth design ceramic glaze panel and other thousand-yuan level raw materials, after more than 5 years of material safety and anti-attenuation design, in the core temperature control accuracy, odor control, Steam stability and other technical dimensions have been achieved within 1,000 yuan!
Friends with a low budget, you can consider Midea's home, which is not bad in the entry-level model. If you have no pressure on the budget and have requirements for appearance and workmanship, you can use the high-end model of Panasonic Home, which has a very distinctive design and is highly recognizable.
Fourth, the four benefits of the multi-functional garment steamer are summarized!
If you want to take better care of your clothes and improve your appearance, then the multi-functional garment steamer is indispensable for everyone. The working principle of the garment steamer is that after adding water and energizing, the internal heater heats the room temperature water into high temperature and high pressure water vapor, and then releases it through the steam pipe and nozzle. The high-temperature water vapor has the function of cleaning and disinfecting, and when used, it is sprayed at the folds of the garment to make the garment smooth and supple. Garment steamers are suitable for any wide range of clothing, curtains and carpets, and are easy to operate, saving energy and time.
With the increase of ironing scenes, the types of garment steamers have become rich, such as vertical garment steamers, hand-held garment steamers, flat ironing machines, multi-functional garment steamers and other types;
Advantage 1: The ironing effect is first-class
The professional multi-functional garment steamer has better materials and technical adjustment, with a more ideal ironing effect, far more than the wireless garment steamer, no need to iron clothes repeatedly, and even thick clothes in autumn and winter can be easily ironed flat.
Advantage 2: Save time and effort
The multi-functional garment steamer has been upgraded layer by layer, the body is small and portable, the structure is precise, even if you want to use it for a long time, you will not feel sore hands, you can do multi-angle, long-term ironing, the design of the water tank is also very scientific and reasonable, whether you want to add water or drain water is very simple and fast.
Advantage 3: It can be compatible with a variety of different fabrics
The multi-functional garment steamer can be used in a variety of ways, such as garment ironing, flat ironing, etc., it also has rich functions such as dry and wet ironing, which can be applied to different life scenarios and clothing fabrics (such as polyester, silk, cotton, etc.), and is more compatible.
Advantage 4: It has the effect of dust removal and sterilization
The high-quality multi-functional garment steamer not only has excellent ironing effect, but also has the functions of dust removal, sterilization, disinfection and so on. It can help everyone to better keep their clothes clean and hygienic and prolong the service life of their clothes.
Is there any harm to the garment steamer? Today's all dry goods sharing is here, in fact, the harm of the garment steamer is not terrible, as long as we understand the causes of the harm, master the eight major selection strategies, and choose high-quality professional products, we can avoid its harm, and enjoy the benefits of the garment steamer with peace of mind! Finally, remind everyone that when purchasing, remember to choose products with professional strength and technology, and be cautious about some products piled up with data, if it will damage the clothes, it is not good, I wish everyone can buy satisfactory products!