After 4 Months of Testing, Here's Our Verdict on the Most Popular Men's Grooming Kits

If we'd written this list six months ago, The Clarson wouldn't have been on it, because it didn't exist yet. The brand quietly launched its first body groomer in late 2025, and after testing it daily for 90 days, we can say it's the most complete kit we've used at any price point.

Three modular heads: a 3-blade foil shaver for sensitive zones (underarms, groin, intimate areas), a standard trimmer for everything below the neck, and a nose & ear attachment for the bits no one wants to admit they trim. The triple-layer stainless steel system gets through dense chest and groin hair without snagging once. The R-angle ceramic edge means we finished the test with zero nicks and zero ingrown hairs.

And this is the part that genuinely surprised us. At £134.90, it’s priced alongside the Braun and Philips equivalents below. Similar versatility, superior blade design, longer battery life, and a genuine warranty. We had to double-check the price tag.

The Philips Shaver Series 5000 S5889/50 is Amazon's Choice for premium rotary shavers. 4.3★ from 3547 reviews, SkinIQ technology, 360-D Flexing Heads, a pop-up trimmer, a travel case and even a Quick Cleaning Pod. On the spec sheet, it's a serious bit of kit. But there's a problem we couldn't get past: at £249.99, this is a face shaver and only a face shaver.

There is no body trimmer head. No nose attachment. No precision combs. The pop-up trimmer at the back is for sideburns and the strict minimum of beard shaping, that's it. For the price of a Philips Shaver 5000, you could buy The Clarson twice and have £63 left over for a coffee. SkinIQ is genuinely smooth on the face, and the cleaning pod is a nice touch. But if you wanted a tool that handles your chest, your back or anywhere south of the chin, this isn't it.

Braun's Series 9 BT9565 is a beautifully built piece of kit. Titanium body, PrecisionWheel with 52 length settings, Power Boost mode, fade-control combs, lifetime sharp ProBlade. It's also beard-only. There is no body trimmer head. No foil shaver. No nose attachment. For £669.99 RRP, you're getting a single-purpose beard tool and a very fancy box.

On beard work, it's genuinely excellent. The PrecisionWheel is intuitive and the blade rarely tugs. But at 524 g, the device is heavy in the hand, and the 180-minute battery is undermined by a slow charge time. The 4.2★ Amazon rating (715 reviews) reflects a product that does one thing very well. If you wanted a tool that can also handle chest, back or groin, this isn't it. The Clarson does everything this does plus body grooming, at two-thirds of the price.

The Panasonic ER-GB62 is the cheapest device on this list at £79.99 retail. Panasonic markets it explicitly as a whole-body grooming tool: beard, hair and body. The blade is sharp Japanese 45° nano-polished stainless steel, the rotary dial gives 40 length settings from 1 mm to 20 mm, and the device runs wet or dry. On paper, this is the only competitor that even tries to do what The Clarson does.

In practice, the gap is wider than the spec sheet suggests. There's only one cutter head. No foil shaver, no nose attachment, no detail trimmer. It's a single trimmer with three comb attachments, dressed up as 'all in one'. Battery life is just 50 minutes (Clarson does 90), the motor strains on dense chest hair, and the plastic body feels brittle. It's not a bad device. For £79, it's actually reasonable. It just doesn't replace a real grooming kit.

This is the most expensive grooming product on this list, and the one that left us most baffled. The BaByliss E847E 3-Day and Shave is, on the spec sheet, a beard trimmer with a W-shaped moving blade and 30 length steps (0.5 to 15 mm). It's waterproof. It has a shaving attachment. That is, genuinely, the entire feature list. The price is £524.99.

We tested it. The blade is fine. The W-shape geometry catches hair slightly better than a flat blade. The shaving attachment is mediocre. There are only 2 customer reviews on Amazon UK, both 5-star, but with that little data, we wouldn't bet a single pound on this product, let alone five hundred. There is no body trimmer, no nose head, no clever dock, no premium pouch. We have no idea who is buying this. The Clarson does materially more, for less than a fifth of the price.