Best Body Hair Trimmers To Buy In 2022

Looking at our primate cousins, it’s clear that we’ve evolved a long way, but perhaps not quite as far as some of us would like in the body hair department. Manscaping is about personal (and sometimes partner) preference, but let’s not pretend that celebrity culture, social media and the changing rooms at the gym aren’t a bigger influence on our body topiary. Watching an episode of Love Island is enough to make most of us question our personal grooming (and national education system).

Nothing says testosterone like a big hairy chest or back rug, but some of us don’t put the hours in at the gym only to obscure our six-pack (okay, one-pack) in a fuzz forest. Waxing is painful, expensive, requires a professional and leads to nuisances like ingrown hairs and bumps.

With a body hair trimmer, you can control your ideal hair length, do all the embarrassing bits in the privacy of our own bathroom and it’s less likely to cause skin irritations. A multi-groomer also means you can streamline your bathroom clutter and have one device to cover all your needs. Remember to shop around: like oak furniture and DFS sofas, body trimmers are always on discount somewhere, only a fool would pay full price.

Body Hair Trimming Tips

You may be wondering why you can’t just use your beard trimmer for your body hair needs. Well, you can, but you may find suffer a couple of nicks and cuts in the process. This is because beard trimmers are designed only to cut the hair on your face, which is far coarser and often thicker than you find elsewhere on the body.

Due to the tough hair on the face, beard trimmers often require contact between the sharp edge of the blade and your skin, which would be harmful for more sensitive areas of your body (we’re thinking downstairs here). A good body trimmer will allow you to get as close as 0.5mm without any direct contact with the sharp stuff though, due to more delicate blade guards which means as pain-free all over shave.