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3.0 out of 5 starsYou can spend more but you won't get a better shave...
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2024
My feelings on this product are pretty meh. It is as good as an electric razor costing 3x as much. I have an unusually thick, fast growing beard. I shave twice a day. When I was younger, I didn't even bother shaving and had a beard for 20 years.
Most electric razors are insufficient. They typically have too narrow holes. My hairs are just simply too big. This one does OK and is cheap. I still have to shave twice a day and spend 10 minutes doing it, taking dozens of passes from multiple angles. Basically the middle part of the blade cartridge, which is more open, does the heavy lifting. The holes are just big enough that once 90% of the hair is lopped off, they can get in the smaller perforations. I have had a couple of expensive Norelcos. My first electric razor was a hand me down from my grandpa; a mid-80s vintage classic. The slots in the head screens used to be bigger...I wish I had known how to do electronics repair back then because I would have used it for a lot longer.
Braun advertises 18 mo for the blades but I just replaced mine 6 months in. I am trying not to say this is a garbage product because the fact is most electric razors are way worse and this one performs better for me than a Norelco costing 3x as much, even buying it at Costco. It is also very much the same old 'give away the razor and charge a small fortune for blades' scammy business model.
It really wouldn't take that much more effort to go back to shaving with the old school Bic single blade disposables or even resurrect my grandpa's 90 year old Gillette safety razor. That's the best shave I've ever had, short of using a straight razor that is very well stropped.
