Braun Silk-expert Pro 5

The best overall — SensoAdapt reads your skin tone 80 times a second and auto-adjusts intensity for safe, effective flashes, with a fast glide mode, very high flash lifetime, and precision attachments. The smartest, fastest at-home IPL for suitable skin and hair.

The Braun Silk-expert Pro 5 pairs fast, reliable results with the smartest safety system. Its SensoAdapt sensor reads your skin tone 80 times a second and automatically adjusts the light to the safest effective intensity as you move across your body — the single most important IPL feature, since the right intensity protects you while ensuring the treatment works. It's among the fastest here, with a high flash rate and a glide mode for legs, a very high flash lifetime (years of full-body use with no cartridge to replace), multiple levels, and face and bikini attachments. Like all IPL it only works on suitable hair and skin, it's premium-priced, and it requires a committed treatment schedule — but for safety, speed, and longevity, it's the device to beat.

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Braun Silk Expert Pro 5 IPL -Does it Work - One Year Later