Braun Electric Shaver for Men, Series 5 5150cs, Wet & Dry Shave, Turbo Shaving Mode, Foil Shaver, with Beard Trimmer, Body Groomer and Charging Stand, Blue

Shaves nice
Good product for the money. Smooth shave, durability, good speed. I don’t recommend for long thick beards! Only good for light beards

Excellent Close Shave
Comfortable, lightweight, incredibly easy to clean, very ergonomic grip, excellent battery life. The trimmer attachment is fairly lame. It isn’t a very effective trimmer at all. They needn’t bother with the collection of guards they provide because you are pretty safe from it trimming too much! I have a cheap Wahl trimmer that uses disposable batteries that is far more effective. That said, the shave is closer than a blade, yet very safe and comfortable even with my sensitive skin. As far as I know, this is the least expensive Braun that’s manufactured in Germany instead of China. I haven’t owned the shaver long enough to evaluate how long the coil/cutting block lasts, Braun claims 18 months. My past experience with Braun and Remington is that foils develop holes and become unusable in a about 6 months. Even if this foil lasts only 12 months that would reduce the operating cost by half! By the way, beware of Chinese imitation foils on Amazon. Unless you look extremely closely, you won’t realize that these are not manufactured by Braun. To be safe, look in the Braun Store in Amazon. The German made foil will set you back $35 instead of the approximately $20 of the look-alikes. Intuition tells me that this hyper-close and comfortable shave is largely due to the quality of the foil/cutting block assembly. Using the cheap foils would be kind of like putting cheap tires on your BMW. Your car wouldn’t drive, handle and stop like a BMW any more.

Exactly as advertised!
Over the years, I have had a lot of electric razors. Some of them did a terrible job right out of the box. Some of them did a great job right out of the box and then went downhill quickly.This razor has been excellent from day 1 and has continued to perform. If you are in a hurry, it has a Turbo button to get it down quicker.Just a little water and it is cleaned up and ready to go. There is no need for a separate cleaning station and special expensive cleaners, just water!

OK shaver
Updated 9/19/23I upped the rating to 4 stars. I’m going to chalk issues up to my face and beard. It shaves my head nicely. I need to wait 2.5-3 days between shaves to get good results on my face.Updated 9/8/23After a couple of weeks, it’s not shaving nearly as good as it did initially. It irritates my skin, pulls whiskers. I keep it clean, charged, and always use a pre electric shave. I might be sending this one back.—Original Review—I have an incredibly sensitive face. Even safety razors irritate, though not nearly as bad as cartridges. Below will be considered heresy to safety razor purists.The first time I used this shaver…I was NOT impressed. I used shave soap and there were lots of spots I had to hit with my DE. I tried dry shaving with it. I did not like it. Irritated my face. Then I bought Lectric shave pre-electric shave. This is a game changer.I have two recommendations for shaving with this unit: Use some sort of pre-electric shave product. Not shaving cream or soap. Don’t press hard when shaving. Take a little time and just keep shaving. I still hit problem areas with a blade, but the whiskers aren’t visible. I just want it a bit smoother.Rinsing the head works great. Most of the whiskers come out using the “gills.” That said, I take the foil head off, rinse under the faucet, tap on my hand, and remaining whiskers come out. When I’m satisfied it’s clear, I place on a hand towel and allow it to dry before reattaching to the shaving unit.I think the Braun Series 5 is a very good value. It shaves parts of my face better than a DE. I think a smaller shaving head gives better access to the lip and under the nose, for example. Combine it with an electric pre-shave product and you’ll get a close shave with little to no irritation. I even shaved my head with this. I’m sticking with my safety razor for my head, but the results from the Series 5 are actually really good.

La afeitadora es muy buena, corta muy fácil, se siente bien sin irritar, solamente que para perfilar no es la mejor, aún así muy buen producto

I trust the brand Gillette because I owned a Gillette electric shaver in 2009 and today it is still working! I keep using the same blade (shaver head), no replacement, for over 10 years.I was going to buy a new Gillette electric shaver but I found that it was acquired by Braun so I picked a Braun’s shaver.At arrival it didn’t power up until connected to the charger. Not sure if the battery was drained or it required charging to activate before the first time of usage. Charging was very quick. The first time charging took about 20 min from low to full.Braun claims that it has a 5 min quick charge technology for one shave, and a full charge provides 50 min continuous shaving time (about 3 week usage). I can’t tell the battery running time since I shave weekly.Shaving is much quicker than my old 2009 Gillette shaver. The new blades can easily cut the stubble. Its 3-cutting-element shaver head works perfectly on my thin stubble beard. I don’t need the 360-degree flexible shaver head.Also easy to clean due to its 100% waterproof feature and “EasyClean System” design – just place it under the water tap and flush. I don’t even need to detach the shaver head.It also has some other trimmer attachments. May try later.A very nice electric shaver. Hope it can work for another 10-year, just like my Gillette shaver.