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The urge to hibernate through winter is perfectly understandable, but all year? Judging by the products you loved (and bought) most over the past 12 months, you wanted to sleep through 2025. And given that it was the year of Trump 2.0, Kim Kardashian’s acting and the Coldplay kiss cam, we can hardly blame you.
Your favourite item overall was our top-rated mattress, the Otty Original Hybrid. By Otty’s own admission, it’s suffering seasonal delivery delays, so we’ll resist the temptation to spotlight it again here, at least for now. Even without it, the list of your most-loved items reads like a hotel suite inventory, from an electric toothbrush via a silky sleep mask to a sunrise alarm clock – plus an overnight bag to keep them in.
All tucked in and ready? Here’s our rundown of the things you loved most this year.
Everything you loved most in 2025
The electric toothbrush that cleaned up
Spotlight Sonic Pro
Second only to Otty’s mattress in the list of products you snapped up in 2025 was the best electric toothbrush tested by our electronics expert Alan Martin. Electric toothbrushes often cost enough to set your teeth on edge, but the Spotlight’s impressive features and cleaning power come at what Alan calls “a price that doesn’t verge on ridiculous”. It’s a looker, too, and with up to 70 days’ battery life, it’s not likely to conk out halfway through polishing your incisors.
The alarm clock that brought you sunshine (and kittens)
Lumie sunrise alarm clock
Two Lumie devices featured in Pete Wise’s guide to the best sunrise alarm clocks. His overall favourite, the Lumie Bodyclock Spark 100, made it into your top 20 products of 2025, but you were even more taken by its cheaper sibling. Clearly, you found Pete’s description of being woken up by its “kittens purring” alarm tone irresistible, and wanted to find out exactly what those “four other natural sounds, including goats bleating and birdsong” sounded like.
The handy hand warmers
Ocoopa rechargeable hand warmers
When you’re forced out of your PJs and into the chilly outdoors, these USB-rechargeable hand warmers will take the edge off – although I can confirm that they’re great for warming up your toes in bed, too. The runaway hit from our Christmas gift guide, these clever and surprisingly chic devices come in various bright designs, weigh next to nothing and are even magnetic, so you can stick them together or on to a similar surface for safekeeping.
The Antler holdall that turns heads
Antler overnight bag
Of all the handbags in her collection, this “genius carry-on bag” is the one “that has had complete strangers stopping me in the street and on the Eurostar platform recently”, wrote Jess Cartner-Morley in her fashion edit back in March. You needed no more reasons to make this stylish holdall your top fashion buy of the year, but Jess offered some anyway, including its clever suitcase-compatible strap and under-seat size.
The blackout sleep mask that helped you snooze
MyHalos blackout sleep mask
And so to bed, again, with this sub-£10 eye mask that upgraded my shuteye more than any of the weird, wonderful and occasionally useless sleep hacks I tested this summer. This ergonomic mask proved essential for me when travelling because it’s endlessly astonishing how many hotels don’t understand the “blackout” part of “blackout curtains”. This was your favourite, too – perhaps because, unlike many eye masks, it doesn’t mess with even the flutteriest eyelashes. Which brings us to …
The mascara that’s kind of a big deal
L’Oréal Paradise Big Deal mascara
Even the soundest beauty sleep needs a helping hand at times, and your favourite beauty product of the year was this budget gem from Sabine Wiesel’s guide to the best mascaras. Sabine was “wowed to see how much longer and naturally fuller my lashes looked in a quick mirror inspection”, and adds: “What really makes this a standout mascara is how buildable it is without any dreaded clumping.” At such a low price, it’s no wonder you were sold.
The best budget camping mattress
Simond inflatable trekking mattress
Even when you’re escaping to the country you’ve got sleep on your mind, judging by the horde of you who bought this lightweight but winningly comfy blow-up bed. It breezed through Linda Geddes’ rigorous tests – stony ground and all – to emerge as her best budget camping mattress, and impressed her with its “tiny pack size [that] makes it suitable for campers without a car”.
The LED face mask for your new-year glow-up
Shark CryoGlow face mask
“Light therapy is the beauty-tech buy of the moment, and I tested an absurd number of LED face masks,” wrote our beauty expert Sarah Matthews on Black Friday. Even in the sales, the Shark remained pricey, but you decided it was money well spent for the “foolproof treatment options to treat blemishes, reduce redness and improve fine lines” and “built-in undereye cooling” that made it the most versatile mask in Sarah’s test.
The hardest-working secateurs
Spear & Jackson Razorsharp Advantage secateurs
Amid a cost-of-living crisis, it’s no surprise to see that the “best budget” choice in so many of the Filter’s guides won your hearts and wallets. As with the value picks in our sunrise alarm, camping mattress and mascara roundups, these carbon steel cutters were the cheapest but most popular item on our best secateurs list. They don’t scrimp on performance, though, and professional gardener Matt Collins calls them “the most simply designed and hard-working budget secateurs I’ve had the pleasure of trying”.
The travel mug that won’t spill your coffee
Stanley AeroLight Transit insulated mug
This stylish mug from insulated drinks legend Stanley is perfectly hand-size (350ml) and comes in nine colours, including pistachio and violet blossom (bright pink to you and me), but here’s the kicker: it keeps drinks hot all day and doesn’t spill a drop. Our writer Pete Wise “bounced on the trampette with it, shook it upside down, threw it over my head – and not a drop was spilled” when testing it for the best travel mugs. Duly convinced, you bought more of it than any other kitchen item we’ve recommended this year.
The office chair that makes light work of … work
Slouch Task One office chair
If you’re reading this from a sofa covered in mince pie crumbs, it seems cruel to remind you that you may be back in an office chair before you know it, but let’s do it anyway: our writer Stuart Andrews called the Task One “hugely comfortable, making light work of even the most epic working days” in his guide to the best office chairs, where he named it best overall. It’s almost enough to make you wish for Monday morning. Almost.
The coffee machine that’s still your No 1
Sage Bambino Plus
We’re mightily impressed that this “neat little machine” remains one of your most-bought products, well over a year after our coffee machine guru Sasha Muller first recommended it. (It’s the Mr Brightside of Filter recommendations.) Sasha liked the Bambino Plus so much that in his review he awarded it the maximum five stars and hailed its “fast, hassle-free coffee”. Will you still be flocking to buy it in 2026? See you back here in a year to find out.
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