This is the shocking reason why you shouldn't use the hair dryer in your hotel room

If you have ever packed light for a trip and opted to use the hotel hair dryer, you might want to rethink that choice.

Studies of hotel rooms have proved that even the most expensive of rooms can harbor bacteria, but while obvious items like the remote and comforter seem to be problematic, the hair dryer has a lot of bacteria.

ABC News conducted an undercover study of hotel rooms ranging in price from $98 to $500 and found that the hair dryer was way dirtier than they would have guessed.

According Chuck Gerba, a microbiologist that worked on the investigation: "There must be some things you can do with a hair dryer that I am not aware of because some of them were pretty germy."

Just goes to show that you cannot trust people to wash their hands!

The problem is that housekeeping wipes off the countertops, but the blowdryer just goes back into that conveniently labeled bag never to be sanitized at all.

Moral of the story is, if you forget your blowdryer, you might be better off sporting a ponytail and letting your hair airdry.