MANGROOMER - PROFESSIONAL Do-It-Yourself Electric Back Hair Shaver

It's simple: This is the best product currently available on the market for removing back hair without having to ask your girlfriend/wife/friend/whoever to do it for you.There's nothing inherently disgusting about back hair on a man. It's no different than chest hair or leg hair. In fact, my back hair is quite fine and soft and silky. Seriously. It's easily the next softest hair on my body after the hair on my head.Now, when I take my shirt off it doesn't look like I'm wearing a sweater or anything. I've got a healthy chest of hair which I'm DAMN proud of and would never shave off EVER! Burt Reynolds, David Hasselhoff, all James Bonds up to Pierce Brosnan, and Austin Powers are my chest hair heroes. But it doesn't extend onto my arms or shoulders. My back however, while not uniformly covered, has large "continents" of hair on the left and right sides of my back from my shoulder blades to midway down my back. The hairs themselves aren't thick or especially dark but there are a lot of them and they grow kinda long (an inch, give or take).While I wear my chest hair like an erotic cuirass of opulent man-armor, the back hair doesn't quite have the same... primal sexuality to it. It reminds more of old fat guys at the pool. And if you're currently or hoping to soon woo a lady, that map of the world growing on your back has gotta go.[TL;DR starts now]IN COMES THE MANGROOMER...The first thing I saw in other reviews that I want to dispel right out is the complaint about it leaving red scratch marks all over your back. DUH! You're dragging an electric trimmer with little metal teeth all over your back. It doesn't hurt, it's actually like a reeeaaally good back scratcher. But yeah, it leaves your back covered in red scratch marks. And guess what? They go away in like 20-30 minutes. That's just how human skin reacts to irritation. It's temporary. A plain old backscratcher does the same thing. So unless you're using the Mangroomer to shave your back like RIGHT before prancing out to the pool, this is a non-issue.It trims VERY close if you don't rush the process and you're thorough. Almost just as good as shaving cream and a razor blade. My back feels very soft and smooth after using the Mangroomer.It's very easy to use. Stand in front of the bathroom mirror with your back toward it, hold a hand-held mirror in one hand so you can see your back in the big bathroom mirror behind you and the Mangroomer in the other hand. The adjustable length is great. I recommend doing the top and middle of your back using the over-the-shoulder method with the length fully extended or close to it. Then shorten the length of the Mangroomer most of the way and reach across your chest and around your side to trim the sides of your back and your lower back. It takes me about five minutes to do my entire back now. You get better at it with each use as you learn what tactics work best for you and become familiar with the contours of your back.It's a little noisy but not too noisy - about the same as the electric trimmer a barber uses. Seems to be a sturdy, well-made, quality product. Doesn't feel cheap. Nice matte, non-slippery feel to it. I haven't tested its charge too much. I leave it plugged into the charger when not in use. It's never had any trouble keeping a charge through the process of shaving my back. But again, I haven't experimented with multiple uses between charges or with leaving it off the charger for extended periods of time.If I want to keep my back in good shape I use the Mangroomer about once a week. Sometimes I go longer out of laziness. I've only used it about 10-15 times now but it doesn't seem to be decreasing in effectiveness so far.COMPARED TO THE RAZORBA (non-electric version):I've bought the Razorba in the past, which is pretty much a plastic stick with a holder on the end for you to stick the handle of a standard facial hair razor in. So you use the Razorba like a regular razor with shaving cream. It's a piece of crap that they charge you up $70 for. It's awful. Only the cheapest plastic Bic razors with the pencil-thick handles will fit in it well. I tried it with my Mach 3 razor and I had to really jam it in for it to fit and even then, it only went halfway in (yeah yeah, that's what she said). Then when I wanted to remove my Mach 3 from the Razorba I had to kinda yank on it to get it out... only to find that the thick rubber tube inside the Razorba that "grips" the handle of the razor you put in it actually ripped out of the Razorba WITH my Mach 3! The little rubber tube only had a simple screw holding it into the Razorba, and a medium-strength yank was all it took to pop it off the screw. Once I managed to remove the rubber tube from the handle of my Mach 3, I found it was next to impossible to fit the rubber tube over the head of the screw inside the Razorba again. So it was pretty much busted. Money down the drain after like 2 uses. Not to mention the repeated "backscratching" motion you had to use with it for it to be effective, which resulted in lots of razor burn. And the cost of completely dulling your expensive razor blades. I haven't tried the electric version of the Razorba, but at twice the cost of the Mangroomer I'm skeptical that it's not a ripoff.No question. The Mangroomer is the ONLY quality option.

I used it twice with pretty decent results but I had an issue with maintaining the flat head attached to the body. On the third use the head came off and could never be reassembled. Perhaps I am thinking about another product but I seem to recall that the product came with an insert setting forth that an extended warranty was included with it at no extra cost. Do any of you have the information. Maybe it is time to return the razor.Thanks.+++++UPDATE+++++ February 4, 2015The very next day following my review, the MANGROOMER directly contacted me. The purpose of the email was to express their own disappointment in my poor experience. They actually seemed to care about this customer; with the number of 4 and 5 star reviews I guess they could have easily ignored me, not to mention that I was bringing the problem to their attention years later. By way of some other reviews regarding the head falling off, I think there is either an intermittent manufacturing problem that does occur from time to time OR their instructional manual may be deficient in instructing how to reinstall the head.I have no way of knowing which is the case, however, I have never seen a response as positive as theirs making me whole again. In fact, after writing my review of the Professional model I saw they had an Ultimate model which I know seems to be similar in design based on reviews. But there were hundreds of reviewers running 4 to 5 stars so I BOUGHT THEIR NEWER ULTIMATE MODEL. It was the next day that they offered me a complete replacement of the Professional! Since I already ordered the Ultimate, instead of replacement I asked for a few supplies for the Ultimate as there was no sense in having two new shavers. It may have been only hours later when they went even above and beyond my request. When I receive the Ultimate along with the accessories I requested plus an extra one that I did not request, I will review the Ultimate.I guess no manufactured item off the line is always perfect, but all you can ask for is a manufacturer like this that is responsive making it essentially a no hassle experience. As an early user of the Internet, and a very frequent online consumer, I would like to give a shout out to our new form of marketing and communication. Without the Internet this transaction would never have happened in the way described. There would be only a one customer marketing advantage to doing the right thing (or, more than right). The only problem is that some sellers still don't take advantage of its power and rue the day that a consumer had easy means of complaining and doing so on a big soap box. Sellers have and will eventually learn that actions such as these by Mangroomer (e.g., and selling sneakers with a prepaid return bag) will buy them lifelong customers that will greatly exceed the profit loss on the one unit of replaced.Thanks, Mangroomer.Charles M. Levy, Esq.