If you want to upgrade your Wahl clippers, a ceramic blade is the most significant improvement you can make. They’re up to 5x sharper than steel, stay sharp longer and generate 75% less heat in use.

Steel clipper blades are great. Lots of people love steel blades. But plenty of barbers and home users are discovering ceramic blades and seeing the benefits of ceramic versus steel. We thought we’d round up a few of those benefits in one place, so you can make up your own mind.

As ceramic is harder than steel – hence ceramic being used to sharpen steel blades – it’s a little more complicated and requires a different set of tools. Diamond – as one of the few materials harder than ceramic – is generally used to sharpen ceramic blades.