The Best Shower Heads For Enhancing Your Showering Experience

Triton is one of the biggest names in UK showers, and its High Flow handset is a sound, affordable replacement for a tired or limescaled head. Triton says it works with any type of shower, so it's a safe pick whatever you have on the wall.

A turn and click selector moves between five patterns, jet, blast, spray, rain and drench, so everyone in the house can find a setting they like. The body is plastic, which Triton says helps reduce limescale build-up, with a chrome finish on top. The Kwik Clean spray plate lets you rub deposits off the nozzles with your thumb.

Despite the name, it won't make a weak shower stronger. It's a well-made standard head rather than a pressure booster, and it comes with fitting instructions and a one year guarantee.

The Rymerce is an ionic shower head, with a chamber of mineral beads in the handle that the water passes through. Rymerce says this reduces chlorine and limescale and purifies the water, and that its TurboCharge micro nozzles give more pressure while using less water.

There are three spray patterns, rainfall, massage and jet. It's a universal fit that screws onto a standard hose in seconds, and the box includes a rubber plate, washers and PTFE tape, along with a refill for the filter.

It costs a fraction of the price of many ionic heads, and the trade-off is build quality, which doesn't feel as solid as the branded handsets here. Bear in mind that a filter head isn't a substitute for a proper water softener.

If your shower feels a bit thin, the Mira Response is designed to get more out of it. Mira says its nozzle and water channel design gives up to 50% more flow than a standard head, and it works with any shower system. There are four spray patterns, one of them a water-saving setting.

The rub-clean nozzles on the spray face make descaling quick, which matters in hard water areas where nozzles block up faster. The body is plastic with a chrome finish, and it fits without tools.

It's designed and made in the UK. It costs more than other direct replacement heads, but if you already have a Mira shower, it'll match the look and you know the fittings will be right.

The Grohe Rainshower Icon is the premium head in this roundup, and it's the one to look at if you want a handset that looks and feels a cut above. Grohe offers it in a range of colours and styles, so it can match coloured brassware as well as chrome.

Grohe says the head is designed to save water and energy while giving a precise, consistent spray. The surface is scratch resistant and easy to wipe clean.

The warranty is five years, which says a lot about how Grohe expects it to hold up. It's the most expensive shower head in our roundup, so it makes the most sense in a bathroom where you've already spent on good quality fittings.

The VEHHE KHS is built to make a weak shower feel stronger. It forces water through thinner streams, and VEHHE claims that boosts pressure by up to 200% while using up to 30% less water.

That approach suits electric showers and gravity-fed systems, where the flow is limited and a wide head spreads it too thin. VEHHE says it fits most electric showers, though it's worth checking your shower's manual before swapping, since some electric shower makers specify approved heads only.

There are five spray patterns, and the silicone nozzles are easy to rub clean. A 150cm stainless steel hose is included, which is handy if your old hose is kinked or leaking. The design is plain and functional rather than stylish.

The Mira 360M has an unusual design that flips over to change the spray, using what Mira calls Flipstream technology. Rather than twisting a dial, you turn the head to swap between four patterns, rain, burst, cloud and storm.

It's finished in white and chrome and has a more modern look than most handsets. Mira says it gives up to 50% more flow and fits any shower system, simply screwing on in place of the old head.

A practical touch is that the head comes apart for cleaning, so you can get at limescale inside rather than just on the nozzles. It costs more than most shower heads in this list.

The Jopee adds coloured LED lights to the spray, and Jopee sells it in several colours. It's an ionic head too, with a stainless steel filter and negative ion filtration in a transparent shell that shows the filter elements.

Jopee describes the filtration as multi-stage and says the head saves water. The outer body is ABS plastic, and it has a universal fitting for standard shower hoses.

There's only one spray pattern, so it isn't the head for anyone who likes to switch to a massage setting. The warranty is only six months.

Plenty of mixer showers come with a handset that's mostly plastic and starts to look tired after a few years. The KES is a straightforward upgrade made from 304 stainless steel, which copes well with heat and pressure.

There's no plastic body to wear, just metal under a polished chrome finish, and the silicone nozzles are self-cleaning, so limescale flakes off when you rub them. The fitting is the universal G1/2 connection, which suits most shower hoses, and Teflon tape comes in the box.

There's a single spray pattern, so it's for people who just want a solid, good-looking handset without settings to fiddle with.

The Derpras is an ultra-thin round rainfall head for a fixed overhead arm, sold in 8, 10 or 12 inch sizes. Its 168 nozzles spread the water across the whole face, giving the wide, soft coverage people want from a rainfall shower.

It's made from 304 stainless steel with a brushed nickel finish, and a brass swivel ball lets you angle it once it's fitted. The connection is the standard UK G1/2, and Derpras says its air energy technology helps on low-pressure systems.

A rainfall head spreads the water over a large area, so the spray feels gentle rather than powerful. That's the point of it, but anyone wanting a strong, pummelling shower should look elsewhere. The warranty is three years.

The SIEYES is a square stainless steel rainfall head with an 8 inch panel. Spread across it are 100 nozzles, which SIEYES says give a hotel quality shower with even spray and coverage.

A 360 degree swivel joint lets you angle the head, and the fitting is a standard half-inch connector. The kit includes a hose with a matching chrome finish, thread fitting, washers and detailed installation instructions, so there's little else to buy.

It only comes in the 8 inch size. That suits most shower enclosures, but for a larger walk-in shower the bigger sizes of the Derpras Round give more coverage.