Hair dryers, air fryers, and toasters release heavy metal UFPs that lodge deep in lungs. Learn how to reduce exposure and support natural detoxification.
Interesting article. Brushed motors are commonly used in small household appliances and power tools that require high starting torque, low cost, and a compact design. Key examples include vacuum cleaners, blenders, mixers, hair dryers, electric fans, juicers, electric toothbrushes, and cordless tools such as drills.
Cleaning and Personal Care: Vacuum cleaners (suction motors and rotary brushes), hair dryers, electric shavers.
Portable Power Tools: Drills, saws, grinders, sanders.
Other: Small fans, electric toys, robot vacuums.
A research team tested different types of toasters, air fryers, and hair dryers. To their surprise, most of these appliances emit a large amount of ultrafine particles. The appliance with the greatest impact, by far, was a traditional toaster that lifts the slice of bread. This appliance alone emitted around 1.73 trillion ultrafine particles per minute. If you were making toast right now, we're sorry to ruin your breakfast. The emissions come directly from the heating elements, which release metallic particles as they heat up.
The second biggest culprit was traditional hair dryers, those that use a brushed motor. In fact, they emit between 10 and 100 times more particles than their modern brushless counterparts. This is because the mechanical friction of the motor's carbon brushes generates a storm of nanoparticles.
A kitchen favorite in recent years, the air fryer, also emitted a lot. Like traditional toasters, it uses intensive heating coils that release metallic particles when operating at high temperatures. In fourth place are brushless hair dryers, which emit up to 100 times fewer particles thanks to the absence of mechanical friction in the motor. However, the heating coils still generate a minimal amount of nanoparticles.
Small household appliances with brushed DC motors, such as hair dryers, air fryers, and toasters, release significant amounts of dangerous ultrafine particles (UFPs) containing heavy metals into the air. These devices can emit 10 to 100 times more particles than brushless alternatives, which can cause respiratory problems, inflammation, and cell damage, posing a greater risk to children. Because they are used in close proximity to the user, these devices allow ultrafine particles to pass through the nose and settle deep in the alveolar region of the lungs, increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease, asthma, and inflammation. Many heating coils contained heavy metals such as copper, iron, aluminum, silver, and titanium. The study observed that these metals can increase the risk of inflammation and cytotoxicity (which causes cell death or severe damage) after inhalation.
Simulation models also revealed that the particles tend to accumulate in the alveolar region of the lungs, the deepest part of the respiratory tract.
Children may be particularly vulnerable due to the smaller diameter of their airways and the greater volume of deposition relative to body weight. The study highlighted that infants and young children could receive proportionally higher doses of harmful particles compared to adults under similar exposure conditions.
The electric motors investigated emitted aerosol particles in the size range of 10 nm to 421.7 nm, with peak concentrations in the nanoparticle size range. Most motors emitted the highest levels of aerosol particles when operating at full power, and significant differences in aerosol emissions were observed among the different electric motors. Our finding of peak emissions in the nanoparticle size range is noteworthy, as aerosol measuring instruments, which are most commonly used to monitor aerosol particles in indoor air, cannot detect them. Therefore, the significance of the problem of indoor air pollution from particles generated by electric motors in household appliances had not been previously discovered or investigated. Nanoparticles have been linked to adverse health effects, as have larger, finer, and coarser aerosol particles, so many electric motors operating indoors present a potential health risk that warrants further investigation into their effect on indoor air quality and the resulting adverse effects on well-being and health.
Maybe just me; The first report, Indoor Pollution, the second - Additives, Internal Body Pollution. Not mentioned today, Outdoor, Environmental Pollution. And what can we most likely count on? Massive financial interests fighting Tooth and Nail to maintain the status quo. Pay no heed, probably caused by Global Warming, Climate Change anyways. And Global Warming, Climate Change...What me worry? Pffft! With all the many types of pollution tearing us down we may well have been turned into Plasticized Preservative Soaked Forever Corpses littering the landscape before any possible climate changed likely caused by the production of those many kinds of Pollution.
The second article about additives stands out even more to me than in the past. Recently had the privilege to experience the Real Deal - Sourdough Breads made from Heritage Wheat Flour, Stone Ground. No additives, preservatives, no long list of lab ingredients, nothing to overwhelm the senses, the taste buds, to fuel unnatural cravings. Just the solid basic ingredients of a food when consumed leaving a state of having a mini meal. Having the body activated with the nutrients actually needed and sustaining. To be aware of being Nourished! No wonder people who have traveled to Europe report how much better they feel eating such and how sick they feel when coming back to the States to return to - Additive fueled cupcake breads. Meaning, the public is wandering around Zombified, Numbed and yet craving still more of what is making them sick. Just not aware of it because they have so few avenues to be able to compare Cupcake Bread with Real Deal Bread.
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Interesting article. Brushed motors are commonly used in small household appliances and power tools that require high starting torque, low cost, and a compact design. Key examples include vacuum cleaners, blenders, mixers, hair dryers, electric fans, juicers, electric toothbrushes, and cordless tools such as drills.
Here are some of the most common appliances:
Kitchen: Blenders, mixers, coffee grinders, juicers.
Cleaning and Personal Care: Vacuum cleaners (suction motors and rotary brushes), hair dryers, electric shavers.
Portable Power Tools: Drills, saws, grinders, sanders.
Other: Small fans, electric toys, robot vacuums.
A research team tested different types of toasters, air fryers, and hair dryers. To their surprise, most of these appliances emit a large amount of ultrafine particles. The appliance with the greatest impact, by far, was a traditional toaster that lifts the slice of bread. This appliance alone emitted around 1.73 trillion ultrafine particles per minute. If you were making toast right now, we're sorry to ruin your breakfast. The emissions come directly from the heating elements, which release metallic particles as they heat up.
The second biggest culprit was traditional hair dryers, those that use a brushed motor. In fact, they emit between 10 and 100 times more particles than their modern brushless counterparts. This is because the mechanical friction of the motor's carbon brushes generates a storm of nanoparticles.
A kitchen favorite in recent years, the air fryer, also emitted a lot. Like traditional toasters, it uses intensive heating coils that release metallic particles when operating at high temperatures. In fourth place are brushless hair dryers, which emit up to 100 times fewer particles thanks to the absence of mechanical friction in the motor. However, the heating coils still generate a minimal amount of nanoparticles.
Small household appliances with brushed DC motors, such as hair dryers, air fryers, and toasters, release significant amounts of dangerous ultrafine particles (UFPs) containing heavy metals into the air. These devices can emit 10 to 100 times more particles than brushless alternatives, which can cause respiratory problems, inflammation, and cell damage, posing a greater risk to children. Because they are used in close proximity to the user, these devices allow ultrafine particles to pass through the nose and settle deep in the alveolar region of the lungs, increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease, asthma, and inflammation. Many heating coils contained heavy metals such as copper, iron, aluminum, silver, and titanium. The study observed that these metals can increase the risk of inflammation and cytotoxicity (which causes cell death or severe damage) after inhalation.
Simulation models also revealed that the particles tend to accumulate in the alveolar region of the lungs, the deepest part of the respiratory tract.
Children may be particularly vulnerable due to the smaller diameter of their airways and the greater volume of deposition relative to body weight. The study highlighted that infants and young children could receive proportionally higher doses of harmful particles compared to adults under similar exposure conditions.
The electric motors investigated emitted aerosol particles in the size range of 10 nm to 421.7 nm, with peak concentrations in the nanoparticle size range. Most motors emitted the highest levels of aerosol particles when operating at full power, and significant differences in aerosol emissions were observed among the different electric motors. Our finding of peak emissions in the nanoparticle size range is noteworthy, as aerosol measuring instruments, which are most commonly used to monitor aerosol particles in indoor air, cannot detect them. Therefore, the significance of the problem of indoor air pollution from particles generated by electric motors in household appliances had not been previously discovered or investigated. Nanoparticles have been linked to adverse health effects, as have larger, finer, and coarser aerosol particles, so many electric motors operating indoors present a potential health risk that warrants further investigation into their effect on indoor air quality and the resulting adverse effects on well-being and health.
https://www.newsweek.com/home-appliances-emitting-high-levels-harmful-particles-revealed-ufp-11180320 (2025).---
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11869-025-01744-1 (2025).-
https://eladelantado.com/en/appliances-pollute-air/ (2025).--
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304389425027153 (2025).--
https://envirotecmagazine.com/2026/01/10/the-fine-particle-threat-from-dc-motors/ (2026).--
Maybe just me; The first report, Indoor Pollution, the second - Additives, Internal Body Pollution. Not mentioned today, Outdoor, Environmental Pollution. And what can we most likely count on? Massive financial interests fighting Tooth and Nail to maintain the status quo. Pay no heed, probably caused by Global Warming, Climate Change anyways. And Global Warming, Climate Change...What me worry? Pffft! With all the many types of pollution tearing us down we may well have been turned into Plasticized Preservative Soaked Forever Corpses littering the landscape before any possible climate changed likely caused by the production of those many kinds of Pollution.
The second article about additives stands out even more to me than in the past. Recently had the privilege to experience the Real Deal - Sourdough Breads made from Heritage Wheat Flour, Stone Ground. No additives, preservatives, no long list of lab ingredients, nothing to overwhelm the senses, the taste buds, to fuel unnatural cravings. Just the solid basic ingredients of a food when consumed leaving a state of having a mini meal. Having the body activated with the nutrients actually needed and sustaining. To be aware of being Nourished! No wonder people who have traveled to Europe report how much better they feel eating such and how sick they feel when coming back to the States to return to - Additive fueled cupcake breads. Meaning, the public is wandering around Zombified, Numbed and yet craving still more of what is making them sick. Just not aware of it because they have so few avenues to be able to compare Cupcake Bread with Real Deal Bread.
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