Personal Care Reviews

in case my title doesn't give you a strong enough impression, let me explain:
i hate this product. i hate this company b/c of this product and b/c of a horrible hair buzzer i bought of theirs that yanked more hair out than it cut, but i'll stick to this product in this rant.
when i first bought it i loved the attachments. the eyebrow trimmer, the ear and nose hair clipper, etc, all great... while they worked. the main problems i had were:
1) the plastic beard length guide broke almost immediately. i didnt particularly care since i bought it more for the eyebrow and nose trimmer, and more to shape my beard than to trim it.
2) it got dull so fast i'm not even sure it was *ever* sharp.
3) it stopped charging after a couple weeks. it appears to me the contacts didnt connect btwn the shaver and the base so it wouldnt charge, but i couldnt figure out any way to make them connect, and i'm a pretty inventive guy.

in summary: garbage garbage garbage garbage garbage. if you really feel like giving this company money, just send them a check and save yourself the aggravation.

For trimming those hard to reach areas, this item is probably the best I have ever used. It has a long battery life for those really overgrown areas. This puppy won't let you down. Hands down the best trimmer in the western hemisphere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bought one of these recently and just love it. Works fabulously as a bikini line trimmer, since many of the other trimmers can be just too large for the job or have difficult cords to negotiate. This is just the right size - and it is multi-functional!

I am not happy with this product at all. The instructions indicate that there is no need to fast before the test, but I noticed what I ate day to day significantly affected the readings I'd gotten. My range had been anywhere from 160 to 210. And the strips are very tricky to apply blood to, unless you have a gushing wound, it is hard to gauge whether the hanging drop will "completely" cover the pad. On average I had wasted 1 out of 3 strips because the drop didn't cover enough of the pad for a reading. Sorry, but I can't believe this monitor is accurate based on my experiences.

Checker did not work.I am having to send it to the company for repair...

i own this product and was surprised to see that Amazon even has it. it is very easy to use, small and portable and you get results quickly. you don't have to go back to the doctor 20 times to get a good baseline for your Cholesterol or to see if it's going up or down. Test yourself as often as you like and find out if a change in diet, exercise, and/or the use of newer Cholesterol-lowering drugs such as Lipitor are actually helping. This and things like those home blood pressure monitors are pretty nifty things to have. With the poor eating habits, the health of America in general and with heart disease still being the #1 killer (with no end in sight), I imagine the Lifestream monitor is a no-brainer for any of us (I guess at any age - 60 minutes just did a report that even kids are having heart attacks and dying in increased numbers). Oh ya, yes the product does actually work.

Hm, you can get the exact same thing sold under another name for less than 1/3 what they are currently selling it here for at major retailers like wal-mart and bed bath and beyond and many other places including catalogs. In fact, I used a 20% off bed bath & beyond coupon & got it even cheaper. It's called "Finishing Touch". It's the same thing down to the little eyebrow attachment and little brush. The only difference appears to be the coloring scheme, but the main body is still a brushed aluminum color.

I like mine, but I'm glad I paid as little as I did. This is a unique product which should not be unique, and I expect more trimmers like this to come on the market. It's not terribly well-made, but it does do the job. It's much safer, easier, and more comfortable than a blade. It doesn't get as close as a blade, but it does get as close as you can expect a trimmer to, and that's *closer* than the trimmer parts of more expensive electric shavers. It's a closeness somewhere between a blade and the trimmer part of electric razors, if you've ever used those.

It does use a AAA battery, and use a fresh one. It's not loud, but it does have kind of a cheap sound when it goes. Going against the grain of the hair helps a lot, as does slowing down; it's not for huge areas. The 'penlike' shape of it helps you do a good job in difficult sensitive areas and folds in the body, especially where you don't have a good view or easy reach and might otherwise hurt yourself.

These things are increasingly popular as people for men and women enjoy a different intimate look and feel. I'm a guy and I like it and use it for myself just as much as my girlfriend does for herself. They are now marketing an incarnation of this gizmo to men, making the color gray and black to seem macho and not girly, and including an expanded and confusing male-oriented "accessory kit", but even those are being sold for less than half of what this is being sold for on national commercials.

This is also helpful medically. If you are constantly using medical tape or sticky bandages, such as people using silicone patch scar therapy, or circumcised men participating in non-surgical restoration using medical tape (as I am; do an internet search on it), this thing is like a godsend, and, yes, had I not been able to get it for the price I did, I would have paid more for it, knowing what I know now.

I bought this product mainly for use on my light upper lip hair, and I am pretty pleased with how it works. It takes the hair off fairly quickly and thoroughly, although it does leave a tiny bit of stubble that you can feel if you rub your finger over the area. It's not really visible though (for light colored hair...I imagine darker hair would be more visible), unless you look extremely close. It is painless, definitely an improvement over using a harsh depilatory cream on the upper lip, although it does not come out as smooth feeling. It's easy enough that you could use it every day if you need to. I tried it with the comb attachment on my eyebrows, but it didn't have any effect, I guess my eyebrows are not the type that it is intended for. I agree with another reviewer that it is kind of expensive for what it does and I wish there were replacement blades available. The warranty is for one year and I envision that the product will probably stop being effective after 1 year and 1 day, but c'est la vie. I'm pretty happy with it.

Yes, it does leave a tiny, tiny bit of stubble behind but if it is just peach fuzz then it's no big deal. For darker, more coarse hair it probably would not be satisfactory. I think this is a great little gadget for use on the face. It is a quick and painless way to keep unwanted facial hair at bay.

Although wax units are messy and time consumning they make your hands feel great. This unit is really too small. You have to almost stand up and place one hand in to cover the whole hand. If you are sitting down you can't bend your wrist enough to cover it. Large units may cost abit more but you can cover up to your wrist and use on your feet as well.

This product HAD a great design idea but it was lost when the power cord ended at the paraffin spa, only to leave the nail dryer with 4 AA batteries. OOOOPS my mistake I meant nail blower,considering the instructions state 10-15 minute drying time per hand WHY BOTHER? Well maybe if you own a battery company. My advice is buy it for the spa.

I thought Amazon.com was a discount online store. You guys are selling these things at regular price. Sorry, but that is not cost effective for me. I will keep looking for a less expensive version.

The way it is described, you'd think one pass of the brush would eliminate all odors, but that is not the case. I was hoping that I could brush off any "smell-signs" of daily wear... the faint odor of soaps, body lotions, and/or light perspiration that gets into all clothes before they show any real signs of being "dirty". But I had to "bush" the clothes for several minutes (long after any lint was removed) to observe any decrease in what I would call "daily-wear" odor, and it never did disapear completely.

The lint brush itself works well, but can be awkward to brush clothes while wearing them (if you are right-handed) or on the hanger (if you are left-handed). The head of the lint-brush is not reversable to solve this problem, as it is on some lint brushes, and the cover for the batery in the handle often comes loose in your hand while you are brushing.

With any luck, someone else will have experimented with hanging an ionizer next to their clothes so that I can get an idea if long-term contact with an ionizer does any good. But it may be that the whole "ionizer-to-freshen-clothes" is just a bunch of hooey. Ionizers on the whole give off a smell like an electrical short, but this is what neutralizes other oders, and it is not a bad smell to some. The "electrical-short" smell dissipates quickly, and does not cling like other oders can. I look forward to reading other reviews on simmilar products.

I received this item in record time unfortunately it was defective. Amazon.com responded extremely well and is sending me a replacement item. While I cannot comment specifically on the monitor I can review the manual. The manual that comes with the device is poor. Just the bare bones information. There is a chest strap that you wear and the documentation on this strap is poor. Not having any experience with these devices I would have liked to had better directions on wear the best place to position the strap, what parts of the strap are the actual sensors, etc.

I bought this Conair unit for the car (!)-(yup!) because I am a wreck in the mornings, and often forget to use my "old reliable" Panasonic one at home after shaving!...Moral of this story: this Conair thing ain't even worth the cheap price. It is loud, and doesn't cut close. Like giving your ear hairs a crew cut.

I received this for free and tried it out. It does the job just OK. Noisy.

I can see people complaining about this trimmer if they were paying a big price, but c'mon! It does a decent job and the noise isn't any louder than your average vibrator! (joke) Go spend a ton more or have it done professionally for alot more, but don't complain when you're not paying alot. You get what you pay for....

Don't let the name Panasonic fool you. This is a cheap toy. Mine got slower and slower, fresh batteries made little difference. It didn't even last a year. Spend a little more and get a better one.
E.L.

It does make noise, but I could not find any cut hairs. Even when I tried to make it cut a specific hair it did not work. In the end I had to get the scissors and tweezer out.

I don't know why two of the other reviewers had problems, this little gizmo has worked great for me for the past 5 years when I bought it at Wal-Mart. Now they don't carry them and I want a replacement. BTW, I bought another kind (flat shaver style) and the thing is too clumsy to use (cut myself twice). This works great, at least on me.