The 15 best Amazon Prime Day grooming deals 2023: Everything you need to know
From beard trimmer discounts to skin-saving serums and cleansers, the Amazon Prime Day 2023 sale will be teeming with grooming deals to sink your pores into…
Let's face it, summer is a time of competing priorities. Between impromptu BBQs, last-minute dashes to the nearest seaside Airbnb and those post-work pints that magically drag on into the wee hours, you might not have much budget left for keeping up appearances. Thankfully, Amazon Prime Day is always at hand to help refresh your bathroom cabinet on the cheap.
Whether you're in desperate need of the best beard trimmer available (but don't want to pay top dollar for it) or your electric toothbrush is looking particularly knackered when sat on its sink-side charging puck, GQ is once again at hand to uncover the best Amazon Prime Day grooming deals. Especially since you can expect the event to cover all manner of bathroom essentials, from moisturisers to anti-ageing creams and men's fragrances. Since Prime Day is less than a month or so away, it's worth getting your head around what to expect from the event and exactly how much you might be able to save.
Naturally, we’ve trawled the many early discounts doing the rounds to bring you our definitive list of grooming deals to keep faces glowing and wallets flowing. Your shapely stubble and radiant complexion are thanks enough.
When is Amazon Prime Day 2023?
Ah, the million-dollar question. Or to be more accurate, the one that'll likely save you a few hundred quid off an electric shaver. So when is Amazon Prime Day 2023? Well, it‘s set to take place between 11 and 12 July, which means you won’t have to wait long to get your feverish hands on a deal or two. These dates are broadly in line with Amazon’s arrangements for Prime Day last year when the annual event returned to its traditional mid-summer timing. Truthfully, Amazon tends to milk its second-biggest sales event of the year for all it‘s worth, so we wouldn’t be surprised to see a slate of tempting offers crop up in and around this mid-July jamboree. Just to ensure you’ve had every opportunity to find a bargain to your liking.
What is Amazon Prime Day 2023?
If Black Friday is the big pre-Christmas sales bonanza and the January sales do the same for the start of the year, then Amazon Prime Day is meant to give you a taste of those discounts while the sun is shining and the mercury is soaring. Of course, whereas other sales events tend to see every retailer imaginable jump on the cost-cutting bandwagon, Prime Day is for Amazon Prime subscribers only. The clue is in the name, folks.
This means as well as a slate of deals on water flossers, nose hair trimmers and all manner of grooming-related kits, you can expect similar deals across the entire Amazon diaspora. From Amazon Kindles and Nintendo Switch bundles to Prime Day alcohol deals, Prime Day home and kitchen deals and Prime Day fitness deals, bargain hunters of all stripes will be well catered for.
How do I find the best Prime Day grooming deals?
The easiest way to find a good grooming deal on Amazon Prime Day is to know what you’re looking for before you delve into what can be an overwhelming list of offers. If you're flexible on the exact product you want to invest in then it’s worth knowing the most trusted brands in any given field. For example, we’re always fans of CeraVe’s skincare products and Philips beard trimmers are well known for their precision. Really, there‘s no reason to take a punt on an unknown cream or electrical when GQ’s experts have tested so many of them for themselves.
Is Amazon Prime Day worth it?
Now more than ever, it's worth being smart about how you spend your money. So anytime you're confronted with thousands of offers in one fell swoop, it's worth questioning just how much you'll save across a two-day sales event such as Prime Day. Arguably, if you're going to buy anything in Amazon's annual price-slashing extravaganza, it should be a grooming electrical since double-digit discounts are par for the course with some of GQ's best-tested products. Will history repeat itself in 2023? Given we're already seeing significant savings on devices such as the Philips 9000 Prestige beard trimmer and Oral-B iO9, it's worth holding out until Prime Day to see how much further those prices drop.
How to sign up for Amazon Prime
At £8.99 per month or £95 per year, the price of an Amazon Prime subscription has crept upwards in recent years. So there's a good chance you might need to resubscribe ahead of Prime Day itself. A 30-day free trial is also available for those who've not been signed up in the last 12 months or are yet to join the fray at all.
Aside from access to the Prime Day discounts, subscribers can also enjoy one-day delivery on their purchases, as well as access to Amazon Music and Prime Video. The latter of which is worth it alone if you're not yet caught up on The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Jury Duty and, of course, the criminally underrated Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's final season. Whatever your taste, click the button below to sort yourself out for the big day.
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1/15Philips Beard & Stubble Trimmer for Men, 9000 Prestige
Our top-ranking beard trimmer (and we’ve used a fair few of them), Philips’ 9000 Prestige model combines an elegant and hard-wearing metal construction with 30 length settings that elevate in 0.2mm increments. If precision-tooled stubble is very much your MO, then there’s no better tool for the job. £99.99 - 23% off at amazon.co.uk
2/15BOSS Bottled Night Eau de Toilette
A scent made for those months when al fresco luxuriating can extend well into the wee hours, this nocturnally-inclined eau de toilette offers a seductive woody fragrance that can keep up with your own decadence. £57.36 - 26% off at amazon.co.uk
3/15Oral-B iO9
Prime Day without a stellar electric toothbrush deal is like pizza without cheese or Ant without Dec, it's simply unthinkable. Thankfully, Oral-B's iO9 brush is here to deliver the goods in a particularly fine fashion. With a wealth of teeth-cleaning prowess (including seven dedicated brushing modes), three-hour quick charging and smartphone connectivity, this is a killer brush going for a song. £283 - 43% off at amazon.co.uk
4/15Philips OneBlade Hybrid Stubble Trimmer & Shaver
Philips' OneBlade was made to rule them all and while it's best used as part of your travel wash bag or a supplementary facial hair maintenance tool, there's still plenty to like about this trimmer. Especially since it's rechargeable and usable in wet or dry conditions. £29.99 - 40% off at amazon.co.uk
5/15Waterpik Cordless Advanced Water Flosser
To truly get in your dentist's good books, you're going to want to floss after brushing your teeth and a water flosser is the easiest and most waste-free way to do so. This excellent Waterpik model is currently one of the most discounted on Amazon, and the one we use ourselves if you need an extra seal of approval. £92.50 - 3% off at amazon.co.uk
6/15Philips Sonicare Advanced Whitening
As much as we’d like to say we brush our teeth to diligently get rid of plaque and other mouth-bound monstrosities, really it’s about getting a whiter smile that’s fit to dazzle the red carpet of our dreams. With a dedicated brush head that’s made with exactly this in mind, Philips’ excellent Sonicare Advanced Whitening model brings a bit of razmataz to your bathroom while ensuring you avoid your dentists’ wrath at the same time. £99.99 - 60% off at amazon.co.uk
7/15Braun 10-in-1 Beard Trimmer Series 7
The Braun Series 7 is a Prime Day perennial and with good reason, you get one hell of a bang for your buck out of this box. With a wealth of attachments for beards, stubble, nose hair and touch-ups – including a Gilette razor – as well as 13 length settings, this robust trimmer has your whole body covered with considerable panache. £73.57 - 13% off at amazon.co.uk
8/15Sun Bum Original SPF 50 Sun Cream Lotion
What good is a heatwave if your skin is daubed in a shade of lobster red the moment the sun comes out? That’s why we’ve got a bottle of Sun Bum’s SPF 50 formula on hand for the moment we step out into those glorious rays. A luxe alternative to the own-brand pharmacy stuff, it’s intensely hydrating and last for two hours before requiring a top-up. £12.75 - 31% off at amazon.co.uk
9/15Philips Nose Hair Trimmer Series 3000
For the man whose nose and ear hair is becoming, well, unmanageable, this Philips Series 3000 will keep everything in check without coming even close to breaking the bank. £10.99 - 35% off at amazon.co.uk
10/15Philips Sonicare 3100
Looking to get those pearly whites extra pearly? Philips' premium Sonicare is easily among the best electric toothbrushes we've ever seen, with smart features to nudge you towards the right brushing habits, a pulsing head that washes away plaque and dirt, and enough battery to last up to 14 days worth of brushing before requiring a replug. These types of brushes are always set at absurdly high prices, but the Early Access sale has dropped this particular brush down by a massive 67 per cent. £209.99 - 63% off at amazon.co.uk
11/15Philips 11-in-1 All-In-One Trimmer Series 5000
Summer is here and that means all manner of body hair is more readily displayed than it might have been six months ago. Luckily, keeping everything in beach-ready shape is a breeze with this eminently versatile 11-in-1 trimmer, which comes with a slew of attachments for your beard hair, nose hair and everything that lies beneath. £33.22 - 26% off at amazon.co.uk
12/15Braun Series 7
As any regular shaver will know, keeping your foil clean and well-maintained is nine-tenths of the law when it comes to doing a quick and thorough job each morning. That’s why it’s so worthwhile spending the extra this Prime Day and stretching your budget to Braun’s Series 7 model, which comes with a SmartCare Center that charges, cleans and lubricates the device, saving you in the long run from both more spent on extra foils and any unwanted skin rashes. £164.99 - 15% off at amazon.co.uk
13/15Wahl Colour Pro Cordless Combi Kit
As close to an idiot-proof hair clipping kit as you could hope to find, this Wahl set features colour-coded combs by length, a cordless design and a matching mini battery trimmer for easy touch-ups. This was already one of our go-to clippers before its Prime Day price drop. £30.65 - 35% off at amazon.co.uk
14/15Remington RX5 Ultimate Head Shaver
For a cleanly shaved head, we’d always recommend picking up a tool that’s been purpose-made for your noggin’. As such, Remington’s RX5 is easy to handle, comes with five cutting heads for speedy results and can run for up to 50 minutes so you’ll rarely find yourself short on battery mid-shave. £59.99 - 12% off at amazon.co.uk
15/15ghd Gold Styler Professional Hair Straighteners
For gentlemen with a truly lustrous mane or those who take an enormous amount of pride in the height of their quiff, ghd’s Gold Styler is just the ticket. Capable of styling at 185C and with a 25 second heat up time, this straightener is as sleek as it is efficient. £136.99 - 23% off at amazon.co.uk
