Series 5 5050cs

Braun Electric Shaver Series 5 5150cs is the perfect gift for any man. It works great for wet and dry shaving, has a turbo shaving mode, and comes with a foil shaver, beard trimmer, body groomer, and charging stand. The quality is excellent, easy to use, and makes grooming fast and effortless. Highly recommend it, especially as a holiday gift!

Before buying this shaver, I was put off by a few reviews that indicated a less than smooth shave. But, after looking over all of the options, this still seemed like the best option. I am glad I made this purchase beacuse the shaving experience has been perfect. I have a beard but like to keep the cheek areas and neck areas smooth. After 3 or 4 days, I can use the trimmer to cut down the stubble and then use the shaver to get a nice clean smooth shave. Switching from the trimmer to the shave head is simple and easy. Hairs do see to like to stick to the rubber parts of the shaver, but they and the heads can be easily cleaned by rinsing with water. The battery seems to last since I have not recharged it after using it for several months. The one down side is that the trimmer is not as effective at taking off the stubble as my last shaver was. But the shaver part does such a good job, that has not been a problem.

Updated 9/19/23 I 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 9/8/23 After 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.

Best shaver I've had yet. Trimmer works really well too.

It is awesome! I bought the 5020s, which comes with a trimmer with 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 leveled plastic trim heads. The difference between options are (without the trimmers), (with plastic trimmers), and (metal trimmers, I believe). Before 5020, I used Braun Cruzer 3 and then Braun Cruzer 5 totaling about 15 years. I was looking for a shaver around 40-50 bucks but decided to go for the extra. I have been using it for month. I shave every other day, and shave it super clean (i.e. any feel of the tiniest beard is unacceptable for me). My cheeks are alright and easy to shave but my neck beard grows irregularly, in I, W, Z ways, it is crazy. Normally, I was using the razor to shave the 2 days old neck-beard, and then using the machine to make it smooth. So shaving was always a problem for me. 5020 is awesome because I almost don't use the razor at all anymore. It can shave my whole face with 95-98% perfectness. If you are a regular shaver, that should be more than enough; it is just my obsession to make it 100%. I can be totally fine if I am on a rush and leave it like that. Thus, it is absolutely perfect for my daily shaving. In my first use, I had a week old beard (my beard grows really fast with medium thickness). It pulled the hairs a couple of times, but I believe I wasn't adjusted yet. Using it just a bit slowly and gently was much better, then had no problem. Yesterday, I also used the trimmer part with 3 and 5 mm option to shave the sides of my head and it was better than my Braun BT3020 beard trimmer. Transition between the levels are pretty smooth and much better than my so-called barber/butcher's work. Another positive thing is that it creates just a little bit of beard dust, about 10% of the previous machines that I used. Cleaning the machine is much easier. Just put it under water. I opened the head and there was no beard dust at all. May be the only negative thing is that the machine is not elegant and easy to control. Both the handle and the head is pretty big and it feels bigger than it should feel on your face. Not a problem for me but, feels weird. I guess the upper series, 7 and 9, are slicker and feels better at hand, but do the cost/benefit analysis.

This was a very nice looking piece of German craftmanship and felt solid in my hand. the slightly bent design seemed to indicate that it would mold to your face. After using this every day for a period of time I noticed a couple of things: you could not shave quickly across a cheek or chin, and the cleaning did not really remove all the clippings. One issue I see with the design of the foil heads is the extremely small hole size, much more minute than my other shavers have had. I am 67 and have had a lot of electric and blade razors in my lifetime! The very small holes meant that the whiskers did not penetrate easily to get cut, many were missed the first time, so you had to go over a section with several passes. You had to go slooow also so they were not just glossed over. The razor also did not do well with my jawline, requiring quite a bit of attention before it seemed clear. If you left your face unshaved for a couple of days, things got worse as the longer whiskers did not really get clipped. I took off the foil assembly and found a few larger clumps of wet whiskers accumulated there, even though I was careful to rinse after each day's shave for a few weeks. Not good. The fact that this is a wet-dry razor is fine, but I did not use it in the shower or after wetting my face. I will continue to use the Braun unit as it does remove the whiskers to a fair extent, just not that close a shave and you really have to pay attention or you will miss a lot! Too bad, the foil needs larger holes or slots, perhaps!

So far it's working great and smooth

I have tried several electric shavers from other manufacturers and found Braun to be the best overall for my needs. My shavers are used for my head also which puts a little extra strain on them. However, having said this, this particular shaver was not as good as my previous one (a 3x series). The previous one felt much better in the hand and seemed to shave much faster . The easy clean feature doesn't really do too much as most of the hair just falls out anyway (which the other one did too) so I remove and rinse the head unit anyway to clean. This one provides me about 3 shaves which is great and charges really fast which is awesome.