Health & Beauty reviews

8 productswe've bought, tested and scored by hand.

Dyson

Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer

★★★★★★★★★★4.4

Fast, quiet and gentle on hair — the gold-standard dryer if you can stomach the price.

Braun

Braun Series 9 Pro

★★★★★★★★★★4.3

The closest, most comfortable foil shave for thick or sensitive beards.

Oral-B

Oral-B iO Series 9

★★★★★★★★★★4.5

The best electric toothbrush we tested — a genuinely cleaner feel with helpful real-time coaching.

Jolie's Skin Care

Jolie's Skin Care Raw Black Soap & Exfoliants

★★★★★★★★★★3.7

Traditional West African products made by hand — good, with one usage warning the site should be making louder.

Iris Body & Beauty

Iris Body & Beauty Boutique

★★★★★★★★★★3.5

A curated boutique whose whole value rests on the buyer's taste — with a thinner catalogue than the pitch suggests.

Urban Hydration

Urban Hydration Plant-Powered Skincare

★★★★★★★★★★4.0

Sensible, affordable formulations that avoid the two traps this category usually falls into.

NEE-V

NEE-V Ingestible Collagen

★★★★★★★★★★3.3

Transparent labelling in a category that usually hides behind blends — but the underlying science is weaker than the marketing across this entire aisle.

Nourished Natural Health

Nourished Natural Health PCOS Supplements

★★★★★★★★★★3.8

Targets a condition the supplement aisle ignores, and does the unusual thing of splitting formulas by PCOS type.