Phi lips One Blade Face + Body

An affordable men’s shaver for quick touch-ups and travel use

Thanks to manscaping, unkempt pits and bits are no longer the norm (sorry, Tom Selleck). In fact, when Philips set about designing its latest grooming product, the OneBlade Face + Body, its research team found that 70 per cent of millennial men groom their bodies, using a variety of tools to shave and sculpt. But before manscaping gadgets were a thing, most of us would swill a face shaver or a Bic around ‘down there’, hoping to buzz off some unruly thatch.

In an aid to cut back on all those tools, Philips’ new battery-powered OneBlade Face + Body is designed for face and body hair. It looks like a fancy razor, is compact and lightweight, and comes with one blade for facial hair, one for body hair, plus a three-stubble body comb with different length guards (1mm, 3mm, 5mm).

It’s designed to trim, edge and shave any length hair on your face or body, so we put it to work on both. We have three days’ stubble on our face and it buzzes it off. It’s not as smooth and clean as with our proper shaver, but it’s decent. The interchangeable body blade plus 3mm comb trims our pits and groin with no issues. We haven’t suffered a cut or scratch, but the blade clogs up during shaving; nothing a quick tap can’t sort.

We’d love to see a battery indicator on the OneBlade Face + Body – although it states 60 minutes battery per eight-hour charge, you’d be brave to start ’scaping without knowing you had a full pint of juice to see you through. So while we wouldn’t ditch our high-powered face and body hair shaver for this, we’d definitely pack the Philips OneBlade Face + Body for manscaping on holiday or keeping our face presentable on a work trip.