The Best Manscaping Tools For Men, Mapped To Every Zone On Your Body

Philips quietly replaced the Bodygroom 7000 that every other guide still cites, and the new one is better in the ways that matter. Runtime doubled to two hours. The guard system now goes from 0.2 mm all the way up in eleven steps instead of five, so you can actually use one tool from your chest down to your groin without swapping anything. The dual head is the real argument for it: a foil side that takes you close and a trimmer side that leaves length, on the same body.

It’s also the cheapest device here to keep running, which nobody talks about. The foil head is around fifteen dollars and Philips says replace it once a year. Do the math against a trimmer that wants a new blade every quarter and the gap gets embarrassing fast.

One note on the model numbers, because Philips has made this needlessly hard. BG7470, BG7480 and BG7490 are the same groomer. The differences are a charging stand and a second head. Buy whichever is cheapest the day you look.

What I don’t love: it’s loud, the head now flexes side to side rather than front to back, which reviewers who used the old one consider a downgrade, and there’s no guard longer than 7 mm. If you want to leave real length on your chest, this isn’t your tool.

Manscaped invented this category and the 5.0 Ultra is still the thing to beat below the belt. Two heads in the box, one ceramic trimmer and one foil, so you can go short one week and close the next without buying a second device. It’s properly waterproof rather than showerproof, which matters when you’re working somewhere that genuinely benefits from doing it in the shower. And it’s quiet, which sounds like a soft benefit until you’ve used something that sounds like a dental drill three inches from anything important.

Two honest complaints. The guard detents sit so close together that it’s easy to be on 4 mm when you thought you were on 2 mm, and you find out afterward. And the foil head is weaker than the Philips on dense hair, which is a strange gap on a device that costs more.

Then there’s the cost. Manscaped wants twenty five dollars for a replacement blade and tells you to change it every three months. Take them at their word and this becomes the single most expensive tool on this page to own, by a distance. Run the numbers in the calculator above before you commit.

If you already own a beard trimmer and a body groomer and resent both, this is the argument for owning one thing. Forty length settings from 0.5 mm to 20 mm covers a fade on your neck and a light pass on your legs from the same handle, and the metal blade is the only one in this group that Braun doesn’t expect you to replace on a schedule. Over three years that difference is worth more than the sticker gap between this and anything else here.

Note the naming, because it will confuse you in a store. Braun retired the MGK numbering and there are now three Series 9 models live at once, AIO9440 and AIO9530 and AIO9570, and which one you see depends entirely on which retailer you walk into. The specs are close enough that I’d buy whichever is discounted.

The catch is Braun's language. They market the body attachment for sensitive areas, and they carefully never say the word groin. If below the belt is your main reason for buying, buy something that was designed for it. And the adjustable guard jams with hair often enough that owners mention it constantly.

This is the answer to a question the category would rather you didn’t ask, which is why a trimmer needs a subscription. Gillette doesn’t sell a replacement blade for this thing. There’s no interval, no refill, no plan. You buy it and you’re done, and three years later you’ve spent sixty dollars while the popular option has quietly taken three hundred off you.

It earns its keep on skin too. The guard is built so the blade never actually reaches you, and Gillette leans hard on a claim of zero nicks with the sensitive comb. For a first timer who is nervous about the whole exercise, that’s the correct trade.

The trade is power. The complaint that shows up over and over in owner reviews is that it won’t get through dense hair in one pass, and on a device at this price that stings. If your hair is coarse, start longer and take two passes rather than fighting it. Also be warned that the naming is a mess: Gillette's own US site sells this as the Intimate trimmer, while the same device turns up at other retailers badged i7.

Nothing else here comes close on range. Half a millimeter to thirty, in fifty eight steps of 0.5 mm. If you’re the kind of person who wants your chest at exactly 7 mm and not 6, this is the only tool on the page that will let you have that argument with yourself.

The modular idea is the other draw. You buy a battery handle and click different heads onto it, so the thing grows with you rather than getting replaced. Heads run thirty five to forty five dollars and there are ten of them, including a foil shaver, a detail trimmer and, oddly, a toothbrush. It’s also the only device in this guide with a published waterproof rating rather than a vague showerproof claim, which is the kind of specificity I trust.

Two things to be clear about. Panasonic never markets any MultiShape head for below the belt, so don’t buy it for that, and there’s no battery indicator on the handle, which on a ninety minute cell is a genuinely annoying omission.

Ceramic is the reason to look at this one. It doesn’t heat up the way a steel blade does over a long pass, and on thin skin that’s the difference between finishing comfortably and finishing early. Meridian pairs it with a guard that keeps the edge off you entirely, and ninety minutes of runtime that you’ll never actually exhaust.

The catch is that the shortest guard is 3 mm. If you want shorter than that, this isn’t the tool, and that’s a real limitation on a device sold for below the belt. Meridian's own Trimmer Plus goes down to 1 mm if you need it.

One thing you should know before you buy: Meridian sits at 3.6 out of 5 on Trustpilot, and while the hardware complaints are thin, there’s a steady stream of people describing subscription charges they didn’t knowingly sign up for. Buy it outright, skip the plan, and read the checkout page properly.

The OneBlade does a thing nothing else here does, which is trim and shave with the same edge. No swapping heads, no second device, and it works on a dry face in a hotel bathroom as happily as in the shower. It ships with two blades, one for your face and one for your body, which is Philips politely telling you not to use the same edge on both.

At fifty dollars it’s the cheapest sensible thing on this page and the natural first purchase for somebody who isn’t sure they will keep doing this.

Be clear on what it isn’t. It cuts to 0.2 mm, not to skin, so it leaves a clean shadow rather than a bare finish. It has no battery indicator and simply stops. And the running cost is the sting: Philips says a blade lasts four months, which is around forty dollars a year on a fifty dollar device. Over three years that’s most of a second trimmer.

Philips puts the same guard system and the same dual head trim and shave setup in the 5000 as it does in the 7000, and then charges twenty dollars less. Same eleven lengths from 0.2 mm to 7 mm, same foil, same trimmer, same twelve month foil replacement at around fifteen dollars.

What you give up is runtime and the flexing head. If you groom every couple of weeks rather than every couple of days, you won’t notice either one.

This is the pick for somebody who read the 7000 entry, agreed with all of it, and would rather keep the twenty dollars. Philips doesn’t publish a runtime figure for it, which is mildly irritating, and I’d want to know that number before buying if you travel a lot.

Here’s the thing Meridian would rather you worked out for yourself: the Original takes the identical ceramic blade as the Premium, has the identical guard lengths, and runs for the identical ninety minutes. What you lose for the twenty four dollar saving is USB-C, replaced by an older standard port, and some finish.

It’s the highest rated thing Meridian sells, at 4.6 from over nine hundred reviews, which tracks. Simpler product, fewer things to go wrong.

Same two warnings as the Premium. It won’t go below 3 mm, and Meridian's checkout will try to put you on a recurring plan if you aren’t paying attention.

Your upper back is unreachable at any wrist angle, and no amount of motor fixes that. It’s a geometry problem, and the solution is a long handle with a head that stays flat against a curved surface. Neither Philips nor Manscaped sells an attachment that does this, so the real choice is a dedicated back shaver or nothing.

Between the two that exist, the manual one wins and it isn’t close. A twenty three inch handle, a head nearly four inches wide so you aren’t making twenty passes, and no motor or battery to eventually be the reason you throw it away. The powered alternative costs a hundred and thirty dollars to do the same job in more passes.

Two honest catches. Cartridges are the real cost. baKblade says five to seven shaves each and owners report closer to one and a half for a full back, so budget somewhere in between and price it in. And a bare back means stubble itch on skin you can’t reach to scratch, which is genuinely miserable. If that’s you, trim it rather than shave it.

One naming note: baKblade has moved on to the 3.0, and the 2.0 Elite Plus that most guides still recommend is showing as unavailable on their own site.