Use an air drier

It may not take two sweaty geezers in a white transit van to deliver it through your front door, but the humble hairdryer is as greedy as machines many times its size when it comes to power consumption in the home. It’s up there with washing machines, ovens and tumble dryers so try drying your soggy locks au naturelle for a change.

• Try these top tips or, failing that, these top tips on how to air-dry your hair as quickly as possible.
• This quick listshows which household labour-saving machines use the most energy, cost the most money to run and therefore produce the most CO2.
• Watch a real life Rapunzel dry her hair in the wind.
• Read the the myth of labour saving devices or Zen and the art of manual chores to make yourself feel good about life minus the machine.

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Here’s a thing… In the early eighties you were 900 per cent more likely to be electrocuted by hand-held hair care equipment falling into the bath. You were also 23,409 times more likely to have such an acutely embarrassing hair style that death would have been the kindest option. (Interestingly, only one of these two statistics was made up).

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