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About WikiShaver

WikiShaver is a catalog of electric shavers for the face and the body: foil and rotary models, wet and dry ones, shavers for men, for women and for the bare head, and the small travel kind, with or without a cleaning station. Beside each one we print the words its seller chose and the price last read from the store.

What a title can tell us

Who a shaver is meant for, whether it cuts with foil or with rotary heads, a wet and dry claim, a count written next to the word blade or head, a cordless build, a cleaning station, a built-in trimmer and a travel size are all copied from the title the seller wrote. A title that stays quiet on one of them leaves that field empty here, and nothing is guessed from a sister model. Battery time, closeness of the shave and comfort on skin are left out of the fields, since seller copy gives no fair basis for setting one model against another on them.

No face has met these shavers

None of the shavers in this catalog has been used by us, so there is no ranking by closeness, no verdict on irritation and no promise about how long a foil lasts. Skin and beards differ widely, and owner reports on the store page, together with the health service pages gathered under Learn, say more about comfort than anything printed here could.

Every price has a clock

An amount is copied from the store along with the minute it was read. When a reading grows old it is removed, not left standing as the current price, and the final figure is whatever the store charges at checkout.

How the site earns

WikiShaver belongs to the Amazon Associates program, so a purchase that starts from one of our links earns us a commission from Amazon while your price stays what it was. The order of a list follows your filters and the price alone, so a maker cannot buy a higher place.

Our guides set shavers side by side on stated specifications and price, nothing else. The Learn section explains words such as foil, rotary, floating head and wet and dry with the help of dermatology and health pages, and the front page shows how many shavers the catalog covers.