Moen Shower Heads Reviews

The perfect all around model Moen has to offer.

The only product we’ll be looking at made of brass, which is where it starts to endear itself to me. Brass is a great material (a lot of antique models are made from it) and it’s incredibly sturdy (though very heavy as well) and likely to last you generations if you take care of it.

That’s the main thing that might turn some off: it does need care. Simply rubbing it down won’t cut it, you need to clean it off regularly to avoid corrosion (the tin will basically corrode out of the alloy and it will become very brittle and potentially shatter: not fun to have happen mid-shower, I can tell you).

Other than that though it’s a great four setting shower head: full body spray, massage, “vigorous”, and a combination spray of massage and full body and most importantly (in some ways): it looks very, very nice.

It’s simple, but elegant. Looks like a bell, which is always cute. I really like it, and it’s a fair bit cheaper (and more adjustable) than some others I may like aesthetically more in the next few entries at under $140.

It’s a great product for pretty much everybody. Give it a closer look.

Very nice.

This is a rainfall type, meaning one function, though it comes equipped with the company’s Immersion rain shower technology that boost the pressure to three times normal but disperses the spray so it never feels like it’s stinging you.

Basically this boils down to: it does one thing, but it does it very well.

The look of this one does it a lot of favors as well. Octagonal is not a shape used often in products, giving it a unique look off the bat. The finish sells it even better, though I feel it’s mislabeled. They call it “oil rubbed bronze”, but it looks more like wood to me, which is great for a lot of homes, including mine (the walls of my bathroom are a dark, pressure treated wood; this would fit in perfectly).

I love this thing, though the price is enough to make you whistle: nearly $200.

If you like the looks and love rain style, it’s hard to do better than this, but make sure it’s what you want for a long term shower head before you buy.

A simply stylin’ Moen handheld unit.

Man I love the look of this. It definitely looks a lot like an antique showerhead (though loses a lot of that aesthetic with the alternate colors of chrome, brass, or nickel), but has very modern functionality.

Stainless steel with that nice Mediterranean bronze finish start us off, with five spray settings: full body spray, massage in two varieties (“energizing” and “relaxing” which is essentially code for “high pressure” and “lower pressure”), and combination sprays between the three.

It is by default Water Sense certified at 2.0 GPM and is little over $70.

Basically, it’s just great. Great price, great looks, and good function.

A nice medium flow model.

Its basic construction is nice: stainless steel with a chrome finish and (of course) touch clean nozzles. The hose lies just short of five feet, which is a little shorter than I expect but not by too much.

Six settings begin to round out the package, providing all the ones you’d expect from a handheld (full body, massage, and a variety of combo sprays).

The two main features that set it apart though are the Water Sense certified “low flow” 2.0 GPM flow (to a lesser extent) and (primarily) the magnetic docking. Handheld shower heads can often be a bit of a pain to take off and on the ring clips that most use, ad this solves that issue nicely without making it any more complicated. That alone is worth giving this one a gander, especially at a quite reasonable under $50 price tag.

Its appearance belies its actual quality.

At first this one doesn’t look like much. Stainless steel and chrome on a basic “pseudo rainfall” model. But looking deeper into its features, this one actually has a lot of hidden potential.

It has a few settings, including the basic “rain” setting (being it doesn’t by default simply pour the water form above, it’s not a real rainfall type), but the really cool thing is that center face where the knob is.

That center face can be angled in any direction, diverging the flow to hit different parts of your body, making it almost like a combo shower head with two distinct shower faces, but without the cumbersome nature that implies.

This immediately catapults it up my list for uniqueness, and its basic statistics are goo enough to push it up near the top. While it will cost you a bit over $70, it’s worth it for a solid, if seemingly simple product.

A good water saving model.

One of the cool things about rainfall types is they can be relatively low flow without actually impacting the quality of the shower: since gravity does a lot of the work anyway, the pressure will be fine and consistent.

This one goes a step further with the Immersion rain shower technology Moen developed, ensuring a consistent, comfortable pressure that mimics the feeling of actual rainfall as close as they are able.

It should be noted that while square, this is still basically a round unit (the holes are in a round pattern), so is functionally identical to the round, chrome colored version of this product. I just liked the finish and look of this one a lot better,

Both are stainless steel, both have the same spray pattern and flow, so it comes down to preference. The price is a bit steep (over $150), but that’s rainfall shower heads for you, and the construction means you’ll never have to buy another unit if you’re  fan of rainfall showers, so give it a shot!

A very nice pseudo rainfall product.

This one comes in plastic and chrome with touch clean nozzles, so basic enough. The main claim to fame here is “Invigorain” technology which boosts the water pressure a bit while still leaving it gentle across the nearly 9 inch face. This gives it great coverage at a good pressure, and just improves if you pop out the flow restrictor.

A note: don’t be worried if it drips after you turn it off. It has a reservoir inside similar to a real rainfall shower head that stores just a bit of water, and that drains over a bit of time when the shower head is turned off. It’s not leaky, it’s just draining.

All in all, I wouldn’t feel bad paying the over $50 price tag if I were a fan of this kind of shower.

A very nice looking Water Sense certified product.

The four inch face complements the nice finish and simple construction of this stainless steel shower head.

It comes in three settings (full body, rinse, and combination), with a “Lifeshine” guarantee the finish won’t crack, corrode, or flake off.

Very nice looking, and a decent shower head, but the (barely) under $100 price tag sits ill with me. It’s not bad, but it’s hard to justify the price even when you take into account the construction means it will basically last a lifetime (or at least 10 years or so).

Give it a try if you like the look, it fits your bathroom, and you know you’re staying where you are long term (i.e. you own a place and are settling in there), but otherwise give it a pass; there are much cheaper shower heads that have the same function if worse aesthetics.

About as basic as Moen gets, but still serviceable.

You get what you pay for here. At under $30 it’s hard to complain about a basic unit with plastic construction, touch clean nozzles, and a chrome finish with three settings (full body spray, jet or “concentrated rinse”, or a combo of both).

It’s not fancy, but I like that even with this cheap model the company takes the time to make it look nicer than a basic chrome and black or white. The off white and brown gives it just a little more pop, making it look more sophisticated than it really is. Not bad.

Somehow manages to be even simpler than the above.

This one is pretty much identical to the Moen Enliven above, but doesn’t look as nice. Stainless steel and chrome, but without the different colored nozzles or slightly hexagonal design that makes the above a slightly better candidate.

Still, in terms of function it is its equal, and costs the same price, so I can’t complain too much, and chrome and white might be to someone else’s taste or fit the bathroom better than the brown of the Enliven.