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Seven groups, sorted by what they do

Kit

These groups are arranged by mechanism rather than by shelf. One family that most shops split between trimmers and shavers has been gathered back together, one appliance filed under accessories has been moved out of it, and one product that makes no beard claim at all sits on its own where nothing around it can imply one. Every characteristic quoted on these pages is a characteristic its listing states.

Everything in this section

The seven groups

  • Beard Oils and Balms

    Carry a named mixture of oils and butters onto beard hair that has already been washed and dried. The contents are stated. The outcome is not.

    8 listings

    Beard Oils and Balms

  • Power and Refills

    Replace a supply, a cable or a consumable without changing anything the appliance was built around.

    4 listings

    Power and Refills

  • Nose and Ear Trimmers

    Take hair off one small area from behind a guard that fixes how deep the cutter can go.

    9 listings

    Nose and Ear Trimmers

  • Rotary Shavers

    Cover a curved surface with three floating caps, working in circles, and finish without leaving a line anywhere.

    7 listings

    Rotary Shavers

  • Foil Shavers

    Hold a perforated sheet flat against skin that can be pulled taut, and cut whatever comes through the holes.

    5 listings

    Foil Shavers

  • Single-Blade Hybrids

    Do the trimming, the shaving and the edging of a face with one blade, and none of the three all the way.

    4 listings

    Single-Blade Hybrids

  • Beard Trimmers

    Hold one chosen length across a whole beard, and change that length when you decide to rather than when the appliance drifts.

    7 listings

    Beard Trimmers

Across every group

Deduplicated by rule rather than by sentence, so nothing here turns up again under a second wording, and held to what most of the groups below carry.

  • StopTwo things mean stopping rather than taking one more pass. Skin that is broken, raised, sore or already inflamed, which is a doctor’s call and not something to draw a blade across. And a line so far out of true that a shorter setting only chases it, which is a barber’s. Neither of them improves by carrying on.
  • StopA shaver or a trimmer belongs to one person. Shaving injures skin at a scale too small to notice, and whatever sits on the blade goes into that injury.