Hinari Lifestyle Iron

Advantages: Cheap! Effective. Self-clean feature
Disadvantages: Tricky to fill.

...you’d be wrong. My Hinari Lifestyle can be used dry, or with steam. In fact, it has two steam settings - low and high. The low setting is good for my more delicate blouses, whilst the high setting is the one I use for jeans and t-shirts and my husband’s more stubbornly creased cotton shirts. It is useful to note that this iron has more steam vents in the sole plate than my old one, which I imagine should make the dispersal of steam more effective. ...
...be wrong again. The Hinari Lifestyle has a polished aluminium soleplate, which glides easily on pretty much any fabric and is a doddle to wipe clean. The iron also has an internal self-clean system that removes scale and unblocks the steam holes. This works by storing up steam and then letting it go in a concentrated pressurised burst, forcing any scale out of the iron through the vents. Be warned though, very hot water can spit out of the steam ... Read review

Advantages: Does a good job, excellent price
Disadvantages: none I can see at the moment

I bought this iron a few months ago along with my bargain kettle from the Woolworths sale for £4.99.It had also previously been priced at £9.99 and £13.99 so I was quite chuffed to get such a bargain. It comes in a choice of three colours (blue, green or yellow) I chose blue, but lets face it, it doesn’t really matter what the colour is for an appliance like this as it will spend most of its time put away in the cupboard anyway, it’s the performance ...
...The first thing I noticed about it is, that it’s good heavy iron. Not everyone likes or can manage heavy irons so I thought I'd better get that point in straight away. I’ve always liked an iron with a bit of weight as it saves you having to press down so hard as you go, so I’m very happy with it Being a steam iron it has the three usual features, variable steam, burst of steam and spray and a lovely smooth soleplate. So fill the iron with the beaker ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: The Mains Cord, The Temperature gauge, The filler

...am the owner of a Hinari Lifestyle Steam/Spray Iron. I have had the Iron for about 2 years now and thought I should tell you about it. Its a bargain at under £15. In fact, for that money, you do get a very practical if somewhat awkward Iron. I say that because I has 3 major drawbacks. 1) The Filler. Being a steam Iron, it requires water. This sounds obvious but you would be suprised to see people trying to use irons and wondering why there is ...
...is very awkward. To fill it, you need to put the water through a hole in the front. You need to put the iron on its end while carefully pouring water into the hole. You get a filler bottle with it but lose this at your peril. If you dont use it, water goes everywhere but in the iron. The hole is badly designed so id dones not take water by any other means. Best not to do this with the tap or it goes everywhere. 2)The Cord. Being a cheap Iron, ... Read review

Advantages: cheap, good features
Disadvantages: a bit heavy when filled with water

...away, I settled for the Hinari Lifestyle iron. Firstly it has a very nice blue non-stick base plate, supposedly so it glides over your clothes but I like it because I have in the past resorted to using a pan scourer to remove the remnants of fabric off the bottoms of irons. I'm not the worlds greatest when it comes to ironing! The iron has the usual features of dry iron, steam, spray and burst of steam for those stubborn creases (I get lots of those ...
...before I bother with them). An added feature of the varisteam is its ability to iron in the upright position, for jackets and curtains etc. A piece of advice though, remove the jacket from the persons body first, it's best to put it on a coat-hanger and hang it on a door. The hole where you add the water has a handy little cover so if you knock the iron over all the water doesn't spill out over your clothes/ironing board/floor. The iron only costs ... Read review

Advantages: Small, cheap, lightweight, easy to manoeuvre
Disadvantages: Awkward to fill with water, tends to leak

I bought this "travel" iron for craft use alone. If I want to iron clothes or large pieces of fabric, I get out my full-size iron and the ironing board. Meanwhile, this sits happily on the tabletop ironing board on my sewing desk and is ideal for quilting. The surface area of the iron plate is 145mm x 78mm, about half of that of a full-size iron overall, and it's perfect for pressing little seams and small pieces of fabric. It doesn't take up much ...
...I am disabled, and I still find it perfectly easy to pick it up and press a seam without moving from my seat at my sewing desk. It's a neat-looking little thing in smart blue and white with rather pretty curves. However, the cord is only about 4' long, so I've had to be quite clever with multi-point adaptors and extension cables. The other problem is when I try to use the steam function, which I don't often do as I'm just pressing little seams. ... Read review