Best Shower Head for 2024
I’ve been showering a lot these past few weeks. When testing a shower head system, I look at many factors: face diameter, gallons-per-minute output, number of settings, materials, design, and more. We also do anecdotal testing of water flow, water pressure, and strength of the spray pattern with dried egg yolk. More than anything, I showered and wrote down how each shower experience felt.
Some settings were better at removing eggs than others.
I let each model sit for a few days so I can take a few showers. During my first shower with a new shower system, I pay close attention to each spray pattern and how they feel, but I also want to shower when I don’t think about it too much. With each model, I shower when I’m groggy in the morning and take a shower after exercise to cool down.
After every shower I take notes on the shower experience. Was it vigorous, relaxing or both? Was the shower experience intense enough to get the soap and shampoo off quickly or did I have to change the settings? Is it easy to change the settings?
For the egg test, I brushed egg yolk onto a cutting board and let it dry for 24 hours. I then held the board 20 inches from the shower head while it ran for 10 seconds and noted how much yolk was removed. I did this test for each setting on each shower head. Most only removed a little yolk, if any, but a few settings proved to be weaker or stronger than the rest.
Different showers meet different needs, but in the end, it was the actual shower experience that mattered to me. None of the models I tested were terrible, but a few stood out and beat the competition.
