A bathroom mirror with a toothbrush charger has a charging point built into the shelf, so your electric toothbrush tops up while it sits under the glass and you stop hunting for a socket every morning. The one most people land on is the Charj range: LED mirrors with a built-in shelf, a wireless charging pad and a two-pin toothbrush point. Here is how the charging actually works, which toothbrushes it suits, and how the three Charj sizes stack up.

One thing to get straight first. These are flat wall mirrors with a shelf, not cabinets with doors. If you want the charging, they do the job. If you want a cupboard as well, that is a different product, and we cover it lower down.

• How the charging works: two routes
• Which toothbrushes charge on it
• The wiring: it runs off the mirror’s own feed
• Charj 500 vs 600 vs 800 compared
• Mirror or mirror cabinet with a charger?
• FAQs

How the charging works: two routes

These mirrors give you two ways to charge, and they are not the same thing, which is where most of the confusion comes from.

The wireless charging pad on the shelf. This is an induction pad. Sit a phone, or anything that takes wireless charging, flat on the pad and it charges straight through the surface with no cable. Handy for topping the phone up while you are getting ready at the mirror.

The two-pin toothbrush charging point. This is a two-pin shaver-style socket for your electric toothbrush’s own charging base. The toothbrush charges inductively through its cradle, the cradle takes power from the two-pin point, and the handle sits on top the way it always has.

Why two separate things? Because most electric toothbrushes will not charge sitting straight on an induction pad. They charge through their own base. So the mirror gives you a proper two-pin point for the toothbrush cradle and keeps the wireless pad free for the phone. One shelf, two chargers, doing two different jobs.

Which toothbrushes charge on it

Nearly every mains electric toothbrush charges the same way: an inductive base that the handle drops into, and that base needs power. On the Charj mirrors, the base plugs into the two-pin toothbrush point. So the real question is not “will my brand work”, it is “does my toothbrush’s charging base use a two-pin plug”. Most UK toothbrush chargers do, because the two-pin shaver plug is the bathroom standard here.

What matters before you buy: check the plug on your toothbrush’s charging base and the voltage printed on it. If the base uses a two-pin plug at the usual bathroom voltage, it fits the toothbrush point. If yours came with a three-pin plug for a bedroom socket, that is the thing to look at, not the mirror.

I am not going to reel off specific brands and models as guaranteed, because manufacturers change the plug and the charging setup between models, and a list that is right today goes stale. The safe move is to read your own toothbrush’s base and its stated voltage. Treat the wireless pad as a phone charger too: a few newer toothbrushes charge wirelessly, but most do not, so do not assume the handle will sit straight on the wireless pad unless the manual says so.

The wiring: it runs off the mirror’s own feed

The charging is not a plug hanging off the side. The whole mirror runs off one electrical feed behind the glass: the LED light, the heated demister pad, the wireless charging pad and the toothbrush point all draw from the same wired connection. Nothing dangles, nothing plugs in on show.

Here is why it cannot just be a normal plug. You will rarely find a standard three-pin socket in a UK bathroom, because mains sockets have to be kept well away from water. That is why bathrooms run on low-current shaver points and hard-wired feeds instead. The Charj mirror follows the same logic: everything is wired in behind the glass and kept sealed away from splashes.

Fitting one is an electrician’s job, not a plug-and-go. It needs a wired connection on the wall behind the mirror, so get a qualified electrician to run the feed and mount it. If you are redoing the room, get the cable put in the right spot before the tiling goes on. Chasing a channel into finished tiles later is a miserable job you can avoid with five minutes of planning.

Charj 500 vs 600 vs 800 compared

The charging mirrors on Bathroom Point are all Charj, and there are three widths. The features are the same across the range, so the choice really comes down to how much wall you have got.

Every one of them is an LED illuminated mirror with energy-efficient lights for a bright, natural glow, a heated demister pad so the mirror clears itself when the room steams up after a shower, and the built-in shelf that carries the wireless charging pad and the two-pin toothbrush point. Here they are side by side, with the cheapest current price:

The Charj 500mm, from £180, is the smallest of the three. It suits a cloakroom or a tight ensuite where 800mm of mirror would swamp the wall. You still get the full set of features, just over a narrower span.

The Charj 600mm, from £189 and currently reduced, is the middle size and the easy all-rounder. It fits above most single basins without looking mean, and it is only a few pounds more than the 500, so it is the one to default to unless the wall is genuinely small.

The Charj 800mm, from £239 and also currently reduced, is the widest. It earns its keep over a double basin or a broad vanity where you want the mirror to fill the space, so it is the one to go for in a main bathroom with the wall to take it.

Want to see the wider picture before you commit? The full illuminated bathroom mirrors range covers the non-charging LED mirrors too, and the bathroom mirror sale is where the reductions live.

Mirror or mirror cabinet with a charger?

Plenty of people search for a “bathroom mirror cabinet with toothbrush charger”, wanting storage and charging in one unit. Straight answer: the charging mirrors here are flat wall mirrors with a shelf, not cabinets with a door and shelves behind the glass. The Charj shelf holds your bits, but it does not hide them away.

So it splits two ways. If charging is what you are really after and you are happy with an open shelf, the Charj range covers it and you are done. If storage comes first and you want a proper enclosed cabinet, that is a different product, and a charging point inside a cabinet is a much narrower field where stock moves about, so check what is live rather than assume it is there. Our guide to bathroom mirrors is a good place to weigh a flat mirror against a cabinet, and the illuminated mirror cabinet buying guide walks through the cabinet side if that is the way you are leaning.

FAQs

What is the difference between a bathroom mirror with a toothbrush holder and one with a charger?

A holder is just a slot or tumbler to stand the toothbrush in. It has no power, so nothing charges. A charger has an electrical point that actually tops the toothbrush up. Some product names use “holder” loosely, so read the spec: if it does not mention a charging point or a shaver socket, it is a holder, and your toothbrush will sit there flat until the battery dies.

Can you get a wireless bathroom mirror?

Not in the sense of no wires at all. Every LED mirror, these included, needs a wired feed for the light and the demister. “Wireless” here means the charging pad on the shelf: your phone charges wirelessly by sitting on it. The mirror itself is still hard-wired into the wall.

Is there such a thing as a non-wired LED bathroom mirror?

Battery-powered LED mirrors do exist, but they are small make-up and vanity mirrors, not a full bathroom mirror with a heated demister and a charging point. Anything with a demister pad and a charging pad needs mains power, so it has to be wired in. If you genuinely cannot run a feed to that wall, you are looking at a plain mirror plus a separate shaver point, not one of these.

Do these mirrors charge a phone as well as a toothbrush?

Yes. The wireless pad on the shelf is an induction pad, so any phone that takes wireless charging tops up flat on the shelf, while the two-pin point handles the toothbrush. Two chargers on one shelf, each doing its own job.

If charging is the whole reason you are buying, the Charj range is the one to look at, and the only real decision is the width. Start with the illuminated bathroom mirrors range, or see what is reduced in the bathroom mirror sale.