Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #682 in Health and Beauty
• Brand: Braun
• Model: 5170

Features

• Epilator with 40 tweezers to remove more hair in one stroke
• Softlip tips to lift even the shortest hair for a closer epilation
• Active massaging rollers to stimulate and relax skin for a more gentle epilation
• EfficiencyPro cap attachment ensures even faster epilation
• SmartLight Technology reveals even the finest hairs

Amazon.co.uk Review
This is the easiest way to remove hair at home without the mess of shaving! It does hurt but it isn’t as painful as you may have heard and with the smartlight you can see all of the smallest, thinnest hairs left on your legs.

If you go to a beautician to get waxed (which means you can take the pain) then save yourself the money and buy this epilator. I’ve had others and this is the easiest to use and with the smartlight you can make sure that it is time well spent. -- Rhian Munday, amazon.co.uk

Manufacturer's Description
The Braun Silk-épil Xelle 5170 epilator has been designed to make the removal of unwanted hair as efficient, gentle and easy as possible. The proven epilation system removes hair at the root, leaving your skin smooth for weeks. As the hair that re-grows is fine and soft, there will be no more stubble.

The epilation head features 40 tweezers that are uniquely arranged to remove more hair in a single stroke, for unprecedented efficiency. The SoftLift tips integrated in the epilation head make sure that even short hairs (0.5mm) and flat lying hairs are removed thoroughly at the root.

It comes with two different attachments:

• The massaging rollers gently stimulate the skin before and soothe it after the hair is pulled out to significantly reduce the pain sensation.
• The flexible EfficiencyPro cap easily fits your body curves for a fast and pleasant epilation session. It ensures maximum skin contact at the optimum usage position thus enabling more effective hair removal.

The Smartlight incorporated in the switch reproduces an almost daylight condition, thus revealing even the finest hair and giving you better control for improved epilation efficiency. 2 Epilation speeds means it is ideal for both beginners new to epilation and more experienced users.

Box Contents

• 1 x Epilator
• 1 x EfficiencyPro Cap
• 1 x Cleaning Brush
• 1 x Bag for storage
• 1 x 12v Adapter
• 1 x Instructions

Customer Reviews

This one's the least painful yet
Epilators have got LOADS better in the last few years, so if you've tried them before, there's always the possibility that you are missing out on some brilliant technological changes. Most importantly they get less painful. Braun have made all kinds of changes to the tweezing mechanism, but also in this epilator there's a flexible cap thingy which does the most amazing job of lifting the hairs away from the skin so that you get a much "cleaner" finish first time round. So no painful going back over the same spot.

I have now had three different epilators. I had an existing Silk Epil I bought about four years ago and was very happy with it, wouldn't have replaced it except that a bit got lost so I thought I'd see about a new one. MY GOD! It's SO much better even in that amount of time. So if your epilator is more than five years old, think about replacing it even if it still works! Honestly this 5170 is LOADS more efficient than the old one and takes much less time and is much less painful. Smooth and not even that agonising. Worth every penny.

The innovations such as the light etc are useful. The only thing I will keep my old epilator for, is that it had a razor head that trimmed the hair to the least painful length - very short but just above the skin.

4 1/2 stars
I bought this product after threatening to buy one for months, at first i was a little nervous of how much it would hurt as a virgin to epilating. iv waxed before and found i just ended up in a sticky mess still hairy!!
When i first used it it made a really bad screeching noise but i soon found out this was because the head wasnt on properly and when i pushed it on the noise went away. Iv found that it hurts way more if your hairs are too long however the pain is definatly worth it - i did my underarms nearly 2 weeks ago now and theres still no sign of hair, at first it did make my legs a little red but this went down very quickly and this seems to have reduced already, im currently plucknig up the courage to do my bikini line - even if it dies hurt then the long lasting smoothness must be worth it right?!
the light is good for seeing what your doing and the different heads also very convinient, its easy to clean with the provided brush (though i wish it was waterproof to rinse it aswell)
id only give it 4 1/2 stars rather than 5 because its quite loud and not being able to wash it is less hyginic and you cant turn on the light with out the tweezers - this just very small things that i think would have made it 5 star but it really is a very good product however if you have a low pain threshold i suggest staying away from epilators - mine is fairly high and it dosent bother me much.

I expected a better result
Having made a research on most epilators, I chose this particular one because of its functions, minimum additional attachments and reviews. I liked the design and I agree that massaging rollers reduce pain, the Smartlight technology makes it easier to see small hairs, SoftLift tips lift flat lying hairs, HOWEVER most hairs are just cut but not removed at the root.