How to clean and look after your shaver

SmartCare Center with an electric shaver docked inside, shown on a bathroom counter alongside a toothbrush and grooming accessories, illustrating automated cleaning and charging.

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Discover Braun’s step by step guide and learn how to look after your shaver using Braun Clean and Renew. Find out how to professionally clean it yourself!

5 min read

Dec 22, 2025

by Braun

Professional cleaning. New shaver feeling at the touch of a button

Some Braun Series shaver models come with a SmartCare Center. So you just push a button, and it cleans, dries and recharges your shaver automatically. So easy and absolutely hygienic.

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SmartCare Center with an electric shaver placed inside a transparent cleaning cartridge, showing the automatic cleaning and maintenance system on a bathroom countertop.

Manually cleaning. Rinsing under running hot water.

Almost every Braun shaver can be rinsed quickly and easily under running hot water. The cleaning effect can be improved by using a bit of standard liquid soap. And another tip: to give your shaver optimal care, you should put a drop of oil on the cutter block once in a while.

Hand rinsing a Braun Series 9 Pro electric shaver under running water, showing the waterproof foil head being cleaned at a bathroom sink.

Cleaning with the brush.

After removing the cutter head, the cutter block is easy to clean with the brush. When you’re done, switch the shaver on fort two or three seconds. Careful: Never, ever clean the cutter foil with the brush.

Black Braun cleaning brush with short bristles, used for removing hair and residue from electric shavers.

Cleaning with the cleaning spray.

The cleaning spray helps clean your shaver thoroughly, removing all traces of sebum. After spraying both cutter parts, the soaked residues are easy to remove.

Braun shaver cleaning spray in a small aerosol can with a purple cap, used to clean and maintain electric shaver heads.

Maintaining. For 100% performance, replace all cutter parts every 18 months.

After 18 months, you have shaved as many hairs as there are blades of grass on a soccer field! So it’s definitely high time to replace the cutter parts for your shaver to deliver 100% performance again. Since the cutter foil and cutter operate like the two parts of a pair of scissors, they inevitably wear out after so much high performance.

Hands removing the shaving head from a Braun Series 3 electric shaver, showing the detachable foil and cutter head for cleaning and maintenance.