Criteria

What makes a good facial razor

Four properties decide whether a dermaplane razor earns a place by your bathroom mirror: how the blade glides, how the safety guard behaves, how the handle grips, and what your skin looks like after a pass. Here is what each one means, and how the Peachly razors meet it.

Our criteria

1. Blade glide. A facial razor lives or dies on how it moves across skin. The dermaplane razor has a fine stainless-steel blade meant for short, light strokes at roughly a 45-degree angle over the cheeks, jaw, and upper lip. A blade that drags is a blade that gets abandoned in a drawer, which is why the razors come in multipacks: when one starts to tug, you open a fresh one.
2. The safety guard. The guard is what makes an at-home razor approachable. Each Peachly razor has a built-in safety guard along the blade, so it lifts fuzz without letting the edge bite into skin, and a slightly nervous first-timer can use it with confidence.
3. Handle grip. Damp hands, a slippery bathroom, close work near the eyes and brows: the handle has to stay put through all of it. The razors have an ergonomic handle for steady, controlled strokes, and the assorted colors make it easy to keep one razor aside for brows.
4. Results on fuzz and brows. The result that counts is what the skin looks and feels like afterward. A good pass lifts soft peach fuzz and dull surface skin so the face feels smoother to the touch and makeup sits more evenly, and the same compact blade tidies and defines the brow line. The rechargeable electric dermaplane tool does the same job with a powered head, for anyone who prefers a device to a manual blade.

What a dermaplane razor can and cannot do

A dermaplane razor is a cosmetic grooming tool for external use on clean, dry skin: it removes peach fuzz and dead surface skin, and it does not remove hair for good. Skin conditions are a conversation for a qualified professional, so keep it away from active breakouts and irritated or broken skin. Our guide on how to use a dermaplane razor walks through the technique step by step, and our reviews page shows what buyers say. Every order comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee, so the risk is on us.