I'm in the military and so of course I have to shave every dang day. This of course trashes my neck and gives me some serious ingrown hairs due to my neck hair growing pretty much completely flat against my skin. I recently splashed out and decided to try a new Braun Series 7 shaver and while buying that good old Amazon suggested this to me. I said sure why not as I've pretty much tried every other razor/cream/face wash/alcohol wipe/product you can imagine. I'd settled on a straight razor and shaving right after showering for over 5 years. Then I got this brush and the Braun and my neck completely changed in a week!!! They've made an absolute night and day difference and now instead of tons of red bumps and blood here and there my neck is smooth with only an occasional ingrown that I need to pull. I attribute it to the Braun and it's light setting that doesn't shave that close to the skin so the hair never has a chance to get stuck in the skin as well as this brush. Using the brush is most definitely not enjoyable but after a good firm scrub of my neck in the shower, there is a noticeable difference I can feel when running my hand over my neck. I can literally feel the hairs sticking out more. I can feel that the few that may be starting to grow into the skin in spite of the attempts of the Braun are now out of the skin thanks to this brush scrubbing off that fine layer it's stuck under so it can come out. I can't say for sure which of these two things is more responsible for my new lack of ingrown neck hair, although I believe it's mainly the Braun. However, if the Braun stops 80% of the hairs from becoming ingrown and this frees the other 20% than I think it's more than worth the scrubbing. I really can't even begin to describe how great it feels after almost 15 years of a bumpy cut up neck and now it's clean and clear. It's amazing!