The Silk-épil comes well packaged and with lots of accessories therefore:
Six different papers there (four for epilation, a shaver and trimmer), a cleaning brush, a storage bag and a cooling glove that is designed to prepare the skin for epilation and soothe it.
The latter is quite a nice idea, but of course the cooling glove, the gel insert must respectively be first pre-cooled in the refrigerator before use and would between the "pre-cooling" of the skin and the epilation actually back there will come to after epilation not again almost to room temperature, and actually can be used again.
Let's make no mistake about it, this really nice idea is pretty impractical, prior rinsing the legs with cool water does it just as well and is simple and to soothe the skin after epilation is my experience anyway nothing better and more pleasant than a slight body milk, so that I will use the cooling glove probably not regularly.
The device itself has a pleasant weight and is quite comfortable to hold, with its more "straight" form, however, not quite as good as my previous narrower in the middle unit of Philips.
For "normal" epilation there are two towers, one with massage rollers for a supposedly particularly gentle epilation and an "efficiency attachment" for particularly thorough epilation.
In zweiterem the ideal angle of about 90 ° by the shape of the attachment is automatically always respected.
Which of the two essays as a suit you more, of course, everyone has to decide for themselves, I think they both have their pros and cons:
In fact, the "efficiency essay" already on first edit the appropriate place seems to run a little more thorough clear-cutting, but I feel the essay with the massage rollers as something "more agile", especially to the slightly more difficult places such as around the ankle around.
The other two Epilieraufsätze face and body do nothing more to cover as part of the tweezers, so that only a correspondingly narrower point is depilated.
Under the armpits, and even in other parts of the body, I feel this is unnecessary; sense of the very few tweezers freely transmitting face essay would be more than for women who want to allow any epilation eyebrows in shape, but I personally prefer to reach back to the good old hand tweezers.
Further to the two essays for body and face should be noted also that these cause, albeit minimal, distance between tweezers and skin, so that thus only slightly longer hair can be detected.
For ladies who occasionally also use an electric shaver or trimmer, it is certainly handy for it to need now no longer a separate device, but with his shaving and trimming attachment to have an all-in-one unit with the Silk-épil ,
Now for Epilierleistung the device to which it actually arrives:
This is very good, better than any other previously used by me device.
Reasons is likely the least 40 Tweezers (many other devices have only 20) and the easily movable epilation be, the contours of the body, especially in the armpit area, perfectly suitable.
Of course, the hair also need the Silk-épil have a certain minimum length to be detected can and, of course, the Silk-épil caught not the first time, but my old unit he proposes significantly.
A small but really fine Extra is the "Smart Light", a small light, which does not even appears at first glance as particularly bright, but actually makes epilation also numerous the hairs visible that are otherwise always only for a while noticed the storing the appliance has ...
There are, as now also at significantly cheaper devices usual, also here two different operating speeds.
The wheel for turning on and off and for speed selection acts at the first one or two start-ups a little "fummeliger" to use than the standard toggle switches, but then you get used to it.
To my amazement, the machine has, unlike all my previous devices (among which some cheaper were) no cap, but because I trust times to the manufacturer, the opinion is evident that the device is not sensitive enough not to require such can and is adequately protected in the enclosed little bag.
Allegedly, the device has a sealed case and should thus be fully washable.
What amazes me about to the fact that the device is not as Wet & Dry is - is expelled device (in the operator's manual is also emphasized that the skin must be completely dry) and therefore may be but sealed not quite as watertight well as this; a try, I will not let it therefore necessarily arrive.
The essays can be easily removed for cleaning, the forceps roller is cleaned by me after each use with alcohol-wetted brush and otherwise I wipe the device from easily moist; This should be guaranteed an adequate hygiene.
A joke for such a high-quality and high-priced device is not available in the Aufbewahrungsbeutelchen made of paper-plastic; Unfortunately, it is also too small to keep the cooling glove (even without gel pads which we become more store in the refrigerator) with it.
Conclusion: a technically very good and reliable working unit.
Whether one of the many, in my opinion, some of non-essential and meaningful extras (essays for face and body, cooling glove) are worth the relatively high price, everyone must decide for themselves.
I would like this in favor of a Wet & Dry - waived technique and possibly a network-independent battery operation.
The good Epilierergebnis with the tweezers 40, the movable epilator head and the "Smart Light", where the last two extras are really clever ideas make the Silk-épil for me but still scarce five star value.
Rework should Braun at its mains-operated devices may with regard to the length of the power cord.
Although this is not really short, but just like me, many other women epilate certainly like standing in the tub because the remote hairs can then be easily washed away and not laboriously swept across the bathroom or need to be -gesaugt, and since one directly on the tub usually happens to have no outlet, a slightly longer cable would be more practical.
Nevertheless an absolutely recommendable device for women that are not necessarily a Wet & Dry - need equipment and can do without a mains-independent battery operation.
