A good fogless shower mirror is essential for most homes. Men quite often like to shave in the shower every morning. I’m not really sure why they don’t use the sink, but whatever. There are many options to choose from when trying to pick out the best mirror for you and that’s exactly what I’m going to talk about here today.
Fogless is important, but it’s not the MOST important thing and I want to talk about that first. What is the most important thing? Suction cups! Many if not most of these mirrors, come with suction cups and I want to warn you desperately against them right from the start. Why is that? Well, suction cups never work… they just don’t! Every time you get into the shower you’ve got to remember to reach behind there and push on the suction cups to make sure that the stupid thing won’t fall.
Of course, if you’re like most people… you’re going to forget to push on the suction cups. It’s early in the morning you’re tired, you’re worried about your day, and you’re anxious to get going. Messing around with stupid suction cups is not something that’s going to be on your radar screen. And so inevitably you’ll be sitting in your living room or somewhere else and you’ll hear a crash come from the bathroom every few days or so and you’ll remember that you forgot to push the stupid suction cups and the darn thing fell again.
Your main alternative is to find a mirror that is hang-able either from the shower nozzle itself, or with some sort of strips that you can stick on the wall of your shower that generally work much better than suction cups. You can go to the extreme and drill holes in your shower wall as well, but I’m not sure I would recommend that right off the bat.
Now let’s talk Fogless mirrors: the fact of the matter is, most of these mirrors will still fog up to some degree and that’s perfectly normal. You can use anti-fogging spray and some of them actually work temporarily. When your mirror fogs up you’re going to be tempted to splash some water on it and wip the fog off with your hand. Don’t do that if you can help it because the oils in your hand, as well as any soap that might be on your hand as well, can interact with the fogless properties and render your mirror’s foglessness dead for future use.
Instead, try and use a washcloth to wipe the fog off when it actually happens. Most of the time your fog free mirror will stay fog free so you won’t have to worry about this sort of thing.
When it comes to choosing the right fogless mirror for you, it can be a bit of a crapshoot. If you look around especially at places like Amazon you’ll find lots of mirrors that are rated good, but very few that are rated great. That’s simply because fogless mirrors, like I said earlier, can still fog up and that can be annoying to even the most even-tempered individual.
But what about prices? prices for these things vary greatly. At the low when you can expect to pay $15 or so and the prices can shoot up to nearly $100 depending on how many bells and whistles you want your mirror to have. Some of them come with lights, some of them come with places to store your razor blade, some of them come with little shelves that will hold shaving cream and soap. It just depends what you’re looking for.
Personally, since these mirrors can be such a hassle, I suggest you get the most bare minimum mirror that you can. Don’t opt for bells and whistles. If you want to store your shaving cream and your razor and anything else in the shower, buy a separate storage device that you can hang by itself and don’t mess with trying to add all those things to an all in one mirror unit.
Some of the brands you can expect to find are Ace, Zadro, Floxite, Plastics Direct, OXO, Mirror Place, ShowerTek, ShavWet, Interdesign, Brookstone, and Rucci. Zadro appears to be the dominant brand as they tend to have more models than just about anybody else and sometimes you simply need to go with the brand that offers the most models because you know that they will be around the longest to service those models.
Finding the right fogless shower mirror can be frustrating. It can be a hassle to try brand after brand in an attempt to find one that won’t fog up like they promise to; but eventually with persistence and hard work you will find the model that is right for you and then I suggest you buy several and put them in storage!