Garment steamer (also known as ironing machine, electric iron) can be used to eliminate the wrinkles of clothes and make clothes more comfortable to wear, so it has become one of the electrical appliances used by Chinese people every day. However, in recent years, there have been many problems in the garment steamer industry, and the industry is mixed, sacrificing quality and cutting corners is widespread, and there are constant complaints about damage to clothes, poor ironing effect, and irritation and bad smell. Does a garment steamer hurt clothes? As a clothing design blogger, I will answer this question for you below, and popularize various knowledge related to garment steaming machines to help you fully understand this product.
The picture above is the garment steamer I have used.
1. Does the garment steamer hurt the clothes?
Is a garment steamer harmful to clothes? As an electrical appliance for caring for clothes, the garment steamer itself is not harmful, but the problem is that when you choose the garment steamer, you will often encounter some poor quality garment steamers, and you will find that the smell is large and the clothes are damaged after use. Next, I will reveal to you the four major hazards of inferior garment steamers, and I hope you will be more vigilant. The picture below shows the home appliance evaluation blogger's explanation of the hazards of garment steamers.
Hazard 1: It is easy to damage clothing
If the garment steamer you use is not professional enough, there are problems such as too high power and inaccurate temperature control, and it is difficult to be compatible with clothes of different fabrics, especially high-end fabrics such as velvet and silk, and the fiber tissue of the clothes is easy to be damaged during the ironing process, resulting in the clothes being scalded yellow and scorched.
Hazard 2, there are potential safety hazards
In order to save production costs, the wire of the inferior garment steamer will generally choose cheap and inferior ones, and the circuit design is more casual, not scientific and reasonable, and the garment steamer is working in a high temperature and high pressure environment, and the power is relatively high, if the quality of the garment steamer used by everyone is not good, it is likely to have fire, electric shock and other safety accidents.
Hazard 3, there is a pungent odor
The components and materials used in the unprofessional garment steamer are very inferior, and after a period of high temperature work, it is easy to produce unpleasant odors, which affects the freshness of clothes, and we will inhale these gases and also harm our health.
Hazard 4, burns**
Garment steamer is to iron clothes by generating high-temperature steam, if the structure of the garment steamer and the design of the grip are not scientific, the high-temperature steam may burn everyone's ** when used.
Second, the five major garment steaming machine pit goods are easy to hurt clothes!
Is a garment steamer harmful to clothes? Now we have made it clear that inferior garment steamers are harmful to clothes, but we can't stop there, we also need to continue to understand the causes of the harm caused by garment steamers, so that we can take measures to reduce and eliminate the harm. For this reason, I found the statistical chart of the common negative evaluation of the garment steamer from the authoritative **, and it is not difficult to see from the data shown in the figure below that the harm of the garment steamer is mainly due to the selection of inferior products. In order to facilitate everyone to avoid lightning, I also combined the data to summarize the five most common types of pit goods in the garment steamer industry, they are generally very harmful, you must not buy!
1. Give away a variety of products with clothing essence
In order to meet the needs of girls for gifts, many garment steamer manufacturers will give away various garment essences and the like, which must be used with caution, after all, they are not professional manufacturers of garment essence, and it is easy to block the water pipeline of the garment steamer, causing hidden dangers.
2. Big names with high premiums
Big-name garment steaming machines can be bought for thousands of yuan, but in fact, most of them are brand premiums, and the cost of garment steaming machines themselves is not so high in terms of materials, quality and performance, and due to the general lack of technical tuning of such garment steamer products, they often have cases of burning and burning clothes.
3. Lifetime warranty and long warranty
Many low-cost and inferior garment steamer brands play the gimmick of "ultra-long warranty or lifetime warranty", don't be gullible, although this product is known as a lifetime warranty, but garment steamer merchants may run away at any time, and there are many garment steamers themselves are very inferior, we seem to take advantage, in fact, this kind of garment steamer is not only poor ironing effect, but also easy to damage clothes, it will not take long to damage.
4. The garment steamer supports the use of APP
It is a real IQ tax to be able to connect to the app to use this function, and it looks like it can be more intelligent, but who will look at the app when ironing? In order to sell the best and attract consumers, some garment steamers have come up with various fancy gimmicks to highlight the sense of science and technology, and have launched APPs, which are actually very chicken rib functions with zero practical value.
5. Low-cost and low-quality products
The selection of materials for low-cost and inferior products is relatively poor, and inferior heating pipes, steam panels, thermostats, etc. will be used, and the steam structure design is not very scientific and reasonable, and it seems to have a high "cost performance", but in fact it is very pitiful, the ironing effect is poor, and it is difficult to be compatible with different clothing fabrics, which can easily cause clothing damage.
3. Eight guides to buy and help you pick a high-quality garment steamer!
Is a garment steamer harmful to clothes? After the core technology of the professional garment steamer ironing performance is good, high safety factor, so it has been recognized by many clothing designers and evaluation experts, it is obviously worth starting, but now the garment steamer on the market is mixed, dazzling, want to choose a high-quality garment steamer that does not damage clothes, small irritating odor, good ironing effect, we still need to choose carefully, in order to prevent friends from falling into the consumption trap of merchants, next I will share with you a few purchase guides, So that you can be "sharp-eyed" when buying, and buy a garment steamer with good quality and good ironing effect.
Guide 1: Choose a brand with strong professional and technical strength
The professional garment steamer brand has strong technical strength, and after a long time of repeated technical tuning and optimization, it can maintain the accuracy of the temperature control and steam uniformity of the garment steamer, which can not only maintain excellent ironing effect, but also not easily damage clothes. Professional brands have been strictly tested for a number of core parameters such as steam distance, temperature control accuracy, 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.
Guide 2: Prefer products for metal heaters
The garment steamer is the "heart" of the garment steamer, and everyone should give preference to the garment steamer equipped with a metal heater. Because the metal heater conducts heat quickly, the thermal efficiency loss is small, the steam is uniform, the energy storage effect is good, it is not easy to accumulate scale, the performance is good, it is not easy to damage the clothes, and the service life is relatively longer.
Guide 3: It is best to buy 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 advantages of small and portable handheld garment steamer, which can support flat ironing, garment ironing, steam ironing and other methods at the same time, but the premise is that you choose a professional and high-quality garment steamer product!
Guide 4: Don't blindly chase big names
Many big-name garment steamers can be bought for thousands of yuan, but in fact, whether it is the materials, quality or performance of the garment steamer, the cost is not so high, and the premium is mostly caused by high premiums.
Guide 5: Don't choose low-priced products
Many garment steamer brands in order to attract consumers with low prices, do not hesitate to sacrifice product quality, the workmanship of the product is very poor, although it is sold very cheap, but the ironing effect is poor, easy to damage clothes, emitting pungent odor and other situations are very common, the service life is generally very short, and it is easy to break.
Guide 6: Ceramic glazed panels are more recommended
Compared with panels made of other materials, ceramic glazed panels are smoother, which is less likely to damage clothes during ironing, and can also avoid rust due to too long use, and is not prone to peculiar smells, which is also more convenient when cleaning the garment steamer.
Guide 7: Choose a garment steamer with a good thermostat
The thermostat is used to control the heating temperature of the garment steamer, different fabrics often need to choose different temperatures for ironing and wrinkle removal, so the quality of the thermostat is very critical, the inferior thermostat can not accurately control the temperature, the temperature is high and low when ironing clothes, it is easy to damage the clothes, cause fire, etc., or the ironing effect is poor at too low temperature.
Guide 8: Choose a product 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, and the garment steamer with good compatibility not only has a good ironing effect, but also can effectively avoid damage to clothes.
In addition to keeping in mind the above selection guidelines, we should also be wary of false propaganda by merchants, there are many products on the market under the banner of not hurting clothes, in fact, most of them are inferior garment steamers, and if you buy blindly, the risk of clothing damage will be very high. In order to let everyone buy a garment steamer without taking a detour, buy a professional garment steamer with real ironing performance and no damage to clothes. I specially found a garment steamer performance and clothing damage rate index from an authoritative testing agency, you can refer to it.
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 harm to clothes", Gong Ling has the highest degree of professionalism in this field of clothes technologyIt is also the original Hi-VI strong pulse pressurized steam technology, approved DEER-SS fast cycle dynamic compensation technology, PE supramolecular electric steam permeation technology and other 13 black technologies, in the actual testDeep, complex fabrics are ironed 1372%, and the rate of clothing damage was reduced by 939%, and the compatibility of different fabrics has also been improved by 93%, which is rare to obtain EU certification! Compared with all domestic household and commercial ironing machines Garment steamers, Gongling has excellent comprehensive performance and tops the list in many aspects, such as the highest continuous steam density and the highest steam pressure.
First, the best steam permeability, the best compatibility with clothing and the lowest clothing damage rate, etc., have achieved remarkable results.
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 clothes, while Gong Ling is compatible with 99% of the clothing fabric, it can realize the effect of deep wrinkle removal of the thousand-yuan commercial ironing machine and has the small size of the handheld garment ironing machine!
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, and it is rare to be recommended by CCTV exhibitionRelying on the affirmation and strong recommendation of many industry authorities and professional home appliance evaluators, the product has been ranked first in the major word-of-mouth and sales rankings for a long time! 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, it has been recognized by more than 500 professional evaluators of household appliances that its products have the strongest degree of protection for clothing!
As a brand that has been focusing on the field of B2C household appliances for a long time, Gongling has invested a lot of energy in the research and development of high performance and high durability under the "no damage to clothes", which is originalHi-VI strong pulse pressurized steam technology, approved DEER-SS fast cycle dynamic compensation technology, PE supramolecular electric steam permeation technology and other black technologiesAfter more than 5 years of safe and anti-attenuation design design of the whole machine, the core temperature control accuracy, odor control, steam stability and other technical dimensions have achieved the strongest within 1,000 yuan!
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Fourth, the four advantages of the multi-functional garment steamer!
Is a garment steamer harmful to clothes? As long as you follow the above methods to buy, it is not difficult to buy a professional and high-quality garment steamer. A high-quality garment steamer is not only safe and will not damage clothes, but also compatible with a variety of fabrics and thicknesses, making clothes smooth and supple! The garment steamer is in operation: first add water, and then turn on the power, then the electric heating element inside the garment steamer will heat the water to a high temperature and high pressure state. When the high-temperature steam is released from the steam duct and the nozzle, the clothes are placed under the nozzle, and the nozzle will spray high-temperature steam to contact the clothes, so that the fibers of the clothes become soft, and the effect of smoothness and softness can be achieved through actions such as "pulling" and "pressing". In addition, high-temperature steam can also disinfect, sterilize, clean and remove dust. After adding water and electricity, the garment steamer can spray high-pressure steam and spray it in the folds of the garment, so that the garment can be smooth and supple. The garment steamer is suitable for ironing and disinfection of clothes, curtains and carpets of various materials, which is simple and convenient to operate, fast ironing and saves energy and time!
In order to meet the growing ironing needs of modern people, the garment steamer market shows a diversified development trend. The types of garment steamers available in the market include corded garment steamers, wireless garment steamers, flat ironing machines, multi-function garment steamers, and handheld garment steamers, among others. Among them, the multi-functional garment steamer has been warmly welcomed by consumers in recent years because of its unique advantages, and has gradually become the dominant market. Its advantages are mainly reflected in the following aspects:
Advantage 1: 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 2: It has a better ironing effect
The ironing performance of a high-quality and professional multi-functional garment steamer can be comparable to that of a vertical garment steamer, far exceeding that of a wireless garment steamer. When ironing clothes, not only do you not need to re-iron, but even some clothes with deep wrinkles and thick clothes in autumn and winter can be easily ironed and smooth.
Advantage 3: 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 keep their clothes hygienic and clean and prolong the life of their clothes.
Advantage 4: It can be compatible with a variety of different fabrics
The multi-functional garment steamer not only supports a variety of ironing methods such as garment ironing and flat ironing, but also has a variety of rich functions such as dry ironing and wet ironing, which can be applied to different life scenarios and clothing fabrics (such as silk, polyester, cotton, etc.), and has stronger compatibility.
Is a garment steamer harmful to clothes? That's all there is to it on this topic, and I think you have no doubts about this issue now. A high-quality garment steamer has a low damage rate, strong deep ironing effect, and high fabric compatibility, which can significantly make clothes smooth and smooth, while inferior garment steamers can easily damage clothes. Therefore, in the selection process, we must keep in mind the purchase guide, do not choose an unprofessional garment steamer, not only poor quality workmanship, high damage rate of clothing, but also may cause potential safety hazards, bring unnecessary trouble, only highly professional, good compatibility of products is what we need.