Abstract: The present invention relates to a personal care device, in particular hair removal device such as an electric shaver, comprising an elongated handle for manually moving the personal care device along a body surface, a working head attached to said handle for effecting a personal care treatment to said body surface, said working head being movably supported relative to said handle and/or including a working head element being movably supported relative to a working head basis to allow adaption of the working head and/or of the working head element to the body surface contour, wherein an adjustment device is provided for adjusting a movability characteristic of a suspension of said working head and/or of said working head element, wherein said adjustment device includes at least one actuator for adjusting at least one characteristic.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a personal care device, in particular hair removal device such as an electric shaver, comprising an elongated handle for manually moving the personal care device along a body surface, a working head attached to said handle for effecting a personal care treatment to said body surface, wherein an adjustment device including at least one adjustment actuator is provided for adjusting at least one treatment characteristic, wherein said adjustment actuator is configured and controlled to adjust said at least one treatment characteristic from a first setting to a second setting within a transition time period of not less than 0.1 seconds and not more than 1.5 seconds.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hair removal device, such as an electric shaver or epilator, comprising a hair cutting unit, a motor for driving the hair cutting unit, a measurement unit for measuring motor current and/or induced voltage and a cutting activity determinator for determining cutting activity from the half cycles of the signal of said measurement unit, wherein a wear determination unit is provided for determining wear of the hair cutting unit from the cutting activity signal of said cutting activity determinator.