The Best Lightbulb
We looked at the top 2 Lightbulbs and dug through the reviews from 1 of the most popular review sites including and more. The result is a ranking of the best Lightbulbs.
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Our Picks For The Top Lightbulbs
Hip, Vintage AllureThese stylish bulbs are dimmable and have an average life of 3,000 hours.
Effortless Brightness at HomeVersatile and long-lasting LEDs help brighten up your space.
Why we recommend these lightbulbs?
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Our experts reviewed the top 2 Lightbulbs and also dug through the reviews from 1 of the most popular review sites including and more. The result is a ranking of the best of the best Lightbulbs.
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The Best Overall
HESSION Vintage Dimmable Edison Lightbulb, 6-Pack
Our Take
These Edison bulbs provide a subtly warm addition to any room’s lighting plan. With tungsten filament inside a transparent light amber glass, you’ll get old-world beauty and modern reliability.
Overall Product Rankings
2. Philips LED Energy Saver Compact Fluorescent T2 Twister Lightbulb, 4-Pack
Our Lightbulb Findings
163962 163964HESSION Vintage Dimmable Edison Lightbulb, 6-Pack
What We Liked: These Edison bulbs provide a subtly warm addition to any room’s lighting plan. With tungsten filament inside a transparent light amber glass, you’ll get old-world beauty and modern reliability.
Philips LED Energy Saver Compact Fluorescent T2 Twister Lightbulb, 4-Pack
What We Liked: LED bulbs offer dependable fluorescent lighting at a low price and a small size. The bright light simulates daylight while using a quarter of the energy of an incandescent version.
163970Our Lightbulb Buying Guide
Lightbulbs come in four types: incandescent, halogen, compact fluorescent and LED. The incandescent bulb produces light by heating a filament, has a short life span and requires the most energy of any of the four types. Due to updated legal standards for lightbulbs, standard incandescent bulbs are no longer being made, but incandescent chandelier and other specialty bulbs remain on the market.
Halogen bulbs, which also make light through a heated filament, require more energy to use and have shorter life spans than compact fluorescent or LED bulbs. Compact fluorescents, which have a spiral shape, are the only one of the four that use mercury, and they light up more slowly than other types of bulbs. LED bulbs are the most efficient and longest-lasting of the four types, and as a result they tend to be more expensive.
It’s important to consider the brightness (measured in lumens) and light color (measured in Kelvin) when buying lightbulbs. We often think about brightness in terms of the older incandescent bulbs, where 60 watts produced 800 lumens. However, more energy-efficient bulbs use less electricity to produce the same brightness: a 12-watt LED bulb gives off the same 800 lumens of light while using a fraction of the power.
Bulbs supply four different colors of light: soft white, warm white, bright white and daylight. Lower-Kelvin bulbs offering a softer, yellower light that can feel more warm and welcoming, while higher-Kelvin bulbs provide brighter illumination with light in the white and blue ranges.
DWYM Fun Fact
Though Thomas Edison is often credited as the inventor of the light bulb, multiple other inventors had used heated filaments for lighting. Joseph Swan developed and patented a light bulb in England the exact same year Edison did, in 1879. Edison’s greatest contribution to electric lighting was in designing and promoting structures for generating and delivering electricity into homes and businesses.
The Lightbulb Tips and Advice
- Before purchasing lightbulbs, check the maximum recommended wattage for your lamp or light fixture. Never exceed this amount for the sake of safety.
- If a bulb does not immediately seem to fit your fixture, do not force it into place. This is a fire hazard.
- Different bulbs are often required for indoor versus outdoor light fixtures. Check the instructions that accompanied your fixture for details.
- If your lights are going to be used with motion sensors or dimmers, check the bulb packaging to make sure it’s compatible.
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Danielle Smyth is a writer and content marketing expert based in New York. She has been writing on business and finance, home and garden, DIY, travel and tourism, and a variety of other topics for over a decade, and she holds a Master of Science in Publishing from Pace University. Danielle loves working on product reviews and helping others find the highest quality items and the best values. An avid gardener and home improvement fanatic, she is always looking for new products to make life easier.