Amazon.com Product Review
How can you make the most of your legs? With smooth and silky skin, that’s how. Designed to bring you optimal results in just minutes, the Braun range of Silk-épil epilators gently removes hair at the root so that the skin stays silky smooth for weeks at a time, not just days.
Product Overview
Braun Silk-épil® Xelle 5280 Epilator
Nowhere does it say that you have to invest time and energy to realize perfection. Designed to bring you optimal results in just minutes, the Braun Silk-épil Xelle 5280 Epilator offers up to four weeks of smooth skin between epilations. Its unique head features 40 optimally positioned micro-tweezers to remove more hair in every stroke, improving the efficiency of every epilation session in the process. The 5280 includes two active massage rollers along with the EfficiencyPro Cap and cooling glove to improve the comfort of your epilation. Finally, irresistibly smooth skin in just minutes.
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Product Highlights
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Efficient hair removal The epilation head comes with 40 tweezers and removes significantly more hair in a single stroke than other epilators. |
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| Reveals the finest hairs
Silk-épil Xelle’s SmartLight illuminates the area you are epilating so you can see and remove even the finest hairs. This way, you don’t find hairs the next day in brighter light. |
| Gentler epilation
The active massaging rollers gently stimulate the skin with micropulsations before and after hair is removed to minimize the pulling sensation. |
| EfficiencyPro Cap
Attach the EfficiencyPro Cap if you want to cover a larger area of skin, so more hairs are removed in one stroke. |
| Removes short hairs
Includes unique SoftLift tips that raise flattened and problem hairs and remove them—even those as short as 0.5 mm that wax cannot grab. |
| Cooling Glove
The cooling glove gently cools and soothes the skin and minimizes any discomfort. |
Comparison Table

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Legs, Body & Face 7681 |
Legs & Body 7181 |
Legs & Body 5280 |
Legs & Body 5180 |
Legs & Body 3170 |
Wet & Dry |
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Tweezer system | Close grip technology, 40 tweezers
| Close grip technology, 40 tweezers
| 40 tweezers | 40 tweezers | 40 tweezers |
Massage system | High frequency massage system
| High frequency massage system
| Dual massage system | Dual massage system | Massaging rollers |
Olay® Pre-epilation wipes | 
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Cooling Glove |
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Washable | 
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| Number of accessories | 5
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What is Epilation?
Epilation is a more effective hair-removal method for women than shaving or waxing. Epilators gently remove hair at the root, rather than at the surface like shaving, and can remove much shorter hair than waxing so you don't have to wait until hair becomes visible to remove it.
The World of Braun
Since its inception in 1921, Braun has challenged the very conventions that define design. State-of-the-art technological innovations are wrapped in pure artistry, honoring both the passion and precision of the ultimate shaving experience. Our unique goal is to create those select products that make a difference in people's lives. Products that engage and excite, creating a "Braun moment" in their own unique way. For men, that effort begins by creating shavers and trimmers that enhance their best look. For women, we strive to engineer epilators and hair care products that pair performance and comfort. This is how Braun goes beyond design to become something more.
Braun. Designed to make a difference.
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
(83 customer reviews) 33 of 34 people found the following review helpful
EXACTLY the same as Braun's Silk-Epil Xelle 5270, but for a slight increase in motor speed and the ice glove.,
May 4, 2011 M.D. Edwards "Avid Aesthete" (Virginia Peninsula) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Braun SE 5280 Silk Epil 5 Epilator With Ice Glove, Pink (Health and Beauty)
Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?)
A few years ago, I bought myself a Braun 5270 Silk-épil X'elle Body System Epilator, which I've enjoyed using for the past few years, but for the fact that, in order to keep the massaging roller clip in place, I have to hold it on with my hand, effectively blocking much of the ingenious Smartlight's beam.
This new Braun Silk-Epil 5280 is the EXACT same model; all that Braun's changed here is the color (although, strangely enough, the color of my new SE5280 looks to be the exact same shade of pink of the epilator pictured on the instruction manual for my old Braun 5270. Curiouser and curiouser...). They've also added the Ice Glove, which, while it does cool the skin nicely, doesn't make for enough of a difference for them to have re-released the exact same product for around eighty bucks.
I've used epilators for...Read more
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Lasts Quite Awhile,
May 19, 2011 K. Kasabian (Silicon Valley, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Braun SE 5280 Silk Epil 5 Epilator With Ice Glove, Pink (Health and Beauty)
Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?)
For your inner masochist, consider the Braun Silk Epilator, a device I had no prior knowledge of before it was offered to me through the Amazon Vine program, but one which I now consider part of my regular beauty regimen.
Seriously, if you have a low threshold of pain, look for another leg-hair removal system, like a razor. The epilator is essentially an electric tweezer that rips your leg hairs out by the root. Hurts so good. Good, because my legs were smooth for a week before I felt anything growing back. And good because that pain means fewer razor cuts and less money spent on razor blades. But the most promising thing about this device is that with regular use, I'll probably be looking at fewer hairs to pluck in the future, as habitual hair removal tends to lead to less hair growth over time.
Cleanup is easy w/ a provided brush that gets stray hairs out of the rotating blade. The ice glove does help after epilating, glad they thought to include it. An...Read more
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Mowing the Legs...,
June 15, 2011 Michael Jandrok (Lockhart, Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Braun SE 5280 Silk Epil 5 Epilator With Ice Glove, Pink (Health and Beauty)
Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?)
Ok, in the spirit of full disclosure, I ordered this product from the Vine for my wife, as I am a hairy fellow who has yet to catch the recent wave of manscaping. In light of that TMI moment, I'll let the wonderful Mrs. give her impressions of the product, since she has been the one using it:
The first thing I have to say is... if you've never used a epilator before, don't be discouraged if you get less than perfect results the first time. Because it takes a few tries to (1) get used to using it and (2) get the technique down.
I will admit it, at first, I was ready to toss the thing, because while it did remove hair in places, in others, it missed them completely. But I didn't want to give up on it right away, so I kept trying it. And I got better at it. And the epilator started growing on me.
This isn't something you can zip through, like you do when you shave your legs. You can't run it up your legs and have it done in five minutes. Making...Read more