The Best Body Hair Trimmers Let You Manscape With Ease

Right out of the box, the Black Ops inspires confidence with its well-weighted, stainless-steel build—wrapped in a grippy rubber handle to eliminate any chance of a slip. While it may sound like something you’d download for your PS5, the Manscaper Black Ops isn’t playing any games when it comes to getting the job done. The trimmer arrives with eight guards ranging from 1.5–13 millimeters, as well as an adjustable guide comb to give you more options for your hair down there. And, like its amphibious namesake, the Manscaper Black Ops is fully waterproof.

Best Manual Razor for Body: Gillette Intimate Manscaping Razor

OK, brave warrior, you want to manually shave your body hair. Obviously men and women have been doing this for decades, and while modern day electric trimmers will make sure you don’t hack off your skin alongside those hairs, there’s nothing wrong with manually hacking at your body hair. These five-blade cartridge razors from Gillette feature a double dose of built-in lube and an anti-friction design so that you end up baby smooth and not like a cut-up mess. It’s about the closest shave you can get all over your body, and for that, we fully endorse it.

Best Travel Trimmer for Men: Manscaped Lawn Mower 5.0 Ultra

While you might be able to get away with leaving your trimmer at home for a weekend by the shore, things have a way of unraveling fast over longer trips and vacations. For extended stays, you’ll want to pack a handy grooming companion to keep you tuned up from head to toe. The Lawn Mower 5.0 Ultra is designed to cross state lines and beyond: from the handy travel lock to keep the trimmer from powering on in your carry-on to the high-quality travel case to keep its attachments and charging cable organized.

The unique design of two adjustable trimming guards allows each to be used to achieve three different lengths, which makes for easy transitioning and also saves space in the carry case. In our testing, the trimmer performed with reassuring power and accuracy. While 60 minutes is not the longest battery life, the trimmer’s constant RPM motor ensures the blade won’t slow down as battery levels dip. In any case, when it is time to charge, the Lawn Mower 5.0 Ultra supports USB-C and wireless charging.

Best Value Body Hair Trimmer for Men: Remington All-in-One Groomer

If you’re ballin’ on a budget, Remington’s All-in-One Groomer is a capable, familiar trimmer that shouldn’t set off any fraud alerts on your credit card. Out of the box, this lightweight grooming tool is comfortable to hold, and the blade head twists into place with a satisfying click. The trimmer’s three fixed guards offer a standard spread of lengths, ranging from 3–9mm; and, for anything in between or beyond, the adjustable comb guard unlocks 10 additional length settings between 2–20mm. We were particularly impressed by the adjustable guard, which proved to be a handy tool for safely fine-tuning short to medium-length body hair with confidence. With additional attachments including a nose and ear trimmer, as well as a refined detail trimmer, the All-in-One Groomer lives up to its name, providing full-body coverage at an affordable price.

Best Body Shaver for Men: Philips Norelco Bodygroom Series 5000

Philips Norelco

Bodygroom Series 5000

I’d consider this the very close runner-up to the Panasonic Body Groomer above, with the differentiator being that it’s not as good as a straight-up trimmer—the central task when manscaping—but it does bring a Swiss Army skillset. To wit: the head is both a guarded trimmer (though with only three more lengths: 3mm, 5mm, and 7mm) and a foil shaver in one, and you can attach the over-the-back handle attachment for a radically easier time eradicating your sasquatch situation.

Back to the Bodygroom’s unique dual-mode trimming head: two rows of trimming teeth clip longer hairs while the foil shaver at the center mows over the stubble. If you want a smooth finish on your chest, shoulders, groin, or anywhere else without the risk of in-growns and skin irritation that can come with razors, the Philips Norelco is the hybrid of your hair-free dreams. Plus, I like the angled trimming guards, too—they make it easy to cradle the skin no matter what angle you’re mowing. The Panasonic’s genius blade design makes it a better body hair trimmer, but for a full-body smoothness, the Philips Norelco Bodygroom Series 5000 has the edge.

Best Chest Hair Trimmer for Men: Happy Nuts Lumberjack Electric Hair Trimmer

Happy Nuts is an aptly-named personal care brand with products that range from anti-chafe lotions to, well, the Lumberjack—a body hair trimmer that’s priced nice and does the job well if you don’t need to do too much. Its bare blade will shave hair down to the industry-standard half millimeter, while two guard attachments let you manage length fairly easily (plus a completely functional and fine nose hair trimmer). That makes the Lumberjack a well-priced tuner-upper for anyone whose sole manscaping needs are the chest and pubes.

I keep it in the drawer for those quick-hit cleanups, though I’ve also used it to take my chest hair down considerably for a beach weekend. The two accessory guards (1-5mm and 7-11mm) are a bit fiddly, but the longer one let me cut my chest hair to 7mm—short, but not stubbly—with no pulling or pain. The Lumberjack is also fully waterproof; I wouldn’t suggest shaving your pubes in the shower, but it’s nice to just rinse the trimmer under the faucet and move on.

Best Back-Hair Trimmer for Men: Mangroomer Intellimax Pro Back Shaver

Shaving your own back is a time-honored chore for the hairiest among us, and the Mangroomer Intellimax Pro brings a home-inventor level of crazy brilliance to a job that otherwise requires extreme contortions. You just unfold it, power it on, drop it over the first shoulder, and get to mowing. The trimming head doesn’t bite or leave marks, but will take hair down to the normal .5mm, while the foil-head shaver attachment will get you smooth-skinned (for maybe a day or two). You can even adjust the length of the Mangroomer’s handle for taller torsos or to get better angles on tricky spots.

It was a lifesaver for me when I was single (before I could sweetly ask my partner to do the job)—and so simple that shaving my back almost became fun. I would use it directly in the shower, making for easy cleanup. (Though never with the shower running; it’s waterproof, but I didn’t want the handle getting slippery enough that I’d drop it.) I never had any issues with nicking or razor burn with the Intellimax Pro’s main trimming head, though it was trickier to get a uniform shave using the foil shaving head. Frankly, it was easier to just use the .5mm trimming head every day if I wanted to stay stubble-free.

Best Ball-Hair Trimmer (and Pubic Hair Trimmer) for Men: Balls Archibald Trimmer

Subtlety isn’t exactly the forté of BALLS (note the price), but this simple little trimmer really does excel at the daunting task of trimming your coin purse with ease and precision. A lot of that comes down not so much to the blade-and guard-situation—which I’ll get to in a moment—but the design of the body. The Archibald has a reinforced matte grip to prevent it from slipping, plus a silicone wrist strap to keep it from hitting the floor (or your feet) if you drop the trimmer. For both reasons, this is the only device here that I felt comfortable using in the shower. At least, if you’re just going to trim the bush, why not make clean-up easier?