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title: "Philips SC1981/00 Lumea Compact IPL Hair Removal System for Face and Body"
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# Slide & Flash mode for fast coverage 5 adjustable light energy levels Save up to £160/year vs salon waxing Philips SC1981/00 Lumea Compact IPL Hair Removal System for Face and Body

**Brand:** philips
**Price:** 25434CFA
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Summary

> ✨ Smooth skin, smart savings, zero hassle! ✨

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Philips SC1981/00 Lumea Compact IPL Hair Removal System for Face and Body by philips
- **How much does it cost?** 25434CFA with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
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## Best For

- philips enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted philips brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Tailored Precision:** 5 intensity settings adapt to your unique skin tone and hair color for personalized, effective treatments.
- • **Salon-Quality Savings:** Enjoy professional-grade IPL technology at home and save up to £160 annually compared to costly salon waxing sessions.
- • **Speed Meets Efficiency:** Innovative Slide & Flash mode lets you breeze through large areas like legs, cutting treatment time without sacrificing results.
- • **Versatile & Convenient:** Compact, lightweight, and corded for uninterrupted use on face, bikini, underarms, arms, and legs—no gels or extras needed.
- • **Clinically Proven Results:** Up to 80% hair reduction in just 8 weeks, backed by 50 years of Philips hair removal research for lasting smoothness.

## Overview

Philips SC1981/00 Lumea Compact IPL Hair Removal System delivers professional-grade, customizable IPL treatments at home. Featuring 5 energy levels and dual treatment modes, it offers up to 80% hair reduction in 8 weeks, suitable for multiple body areas. Lightweight and corded for continuous use, it saves users up to £160 annually compared to salon waxing, combining convenience, versatility, and clinically backed results.

## Description

New Lumea compact is the smallest, lightest model in the Lumea range. It's ideal for long lasting hair removal for bikini line, underarms and legs, and is safe enough for use on the face too. It has 2 modes of action, Step and Flash mode for curvy areas or Slide and Flash mode for continuous treatment over larger areas. Lumea offers a lasting solution to hair removal, so you don't need to shave every day or have expensive trips to the salon for a wax, in fact, using Lumea could save you up to GBP160* a year in equivalent salon waxing costs. Lumea compact has 5 intensity levels, so you can tailor your treatment to suit your skin and hair colour and features a built in skin colour sensor. It's corded so it's always ready to use. With the backing of 50 years of hair removal research, you can trust Philips Lumea to give you smooth hair free skin with lasting results. *based on Philips Facebook survey results of 200 consumers asked average cost of salon waxing Feb 2014.

Review: Best hair removal method I've used - I bought my Lumea 1.5 years ago, and for me, it's been an absolutely fantastic, I only wish I had earlier! I have near-black hair, and mediterranean/asian skin, so I only use it on the level 4 setting as advised, instead of the highest level 5. In some areas I'm 90% hair free, in others about 50%, but this fluctuates depending on when I last did a treatment and what stage of growth the hair is in. Pictures included show my legs and armpits as they are currently - this is 6 days after shaving, and about a month after my latest Lumea treatment. I still shave to take care of the few hairs that are left behind, but I don't do this as often, and my skin looks and feels wayyy smoother than it would through shaving alone. Positives + painless to use + actually hair-free skin + results that last a long time, longer than waxing Negatives - each treatment takes significant time to do thoroughly, about twice as long as the product claims: it takes me 60-90 minutes to do both legs - from reading the other reviews, it sounds like it doesn't reliably work for everybody When I first got it, I followed the instructions of doing fortnightly sessions for 16 weeks. After that I noticed diminished hair growth but not really gone. Following the instructions I switched to once a month for a while. After three or four months of that I didn't have much regrowth, not enough to make it feel worthwhile doing as often, so I switched down to whenever it seems necessary, which is currently about once every 4 months. I love it. I've always had problems with other hair removal methods: * shaving with a razor gives me razor-burn (irritated red and bumpy skin) * waxing always gives me ingrown hairs and doesn't last long enough to feel worth the effort * epitalor was incredibly painful and no better results than waxing * laser hair removal, I tried a tester session and I found it so painful I couldn't bear it (my pain tolerance is quite low). Before the Lumea I was just using an electric shaver, which is quick and easy and doesn't have any negative side effects, but doesn't leave skin super smooth, and of course regrowth is pretty quick. I still use my shaver before Lumea treatments, and in between to take care of the remaining hairs. When so much of your body hair is gone, the few that are left aren't actually that noticeable. I have had different amounts of success on different parts of my body. * legs and bikini line are the best, about 90% hair-free for the months in between regrowth * belly/chest, upper lip are pretty good, mostly hair free but I treat these areas fairly often still because I want to keep them 100%, luckily this doesn't take too long because it's only a few small areas * armpits haven't really worked at all for me, maybe 50% less hair but still quite a bit remaining. I don't know if this is because the concave shape of the armpit means it's hard to get close contact with the Lumea, even though I try to make it flat. Update: I've been doing my armpits more frequently recently and it's down to about 40% hair remaining. If my Lumea broke or I lost it, I would definitely buy another one - but I would probably upgrade to a bigger model. I chose this one initially because it was cheaper and more lightweight. The lightness does make it easier to use, but I think I'd prefer to trade that now for the bigger window on the larger models which would make treatments a quicker.
Review: A great purchase for a first timer at trying IPL hair removal - Ok.... so I'm not totally hair free but what I can say for my hair colour which is dark brown and skin type which is quite pale, the hair growth is much slower, thinner, patchy and softer/less stubbly. I can go for much longer between shaves which has left my skin softer/less dry. I have less of a shadow on my underarms. It's simple and pain free to use. The are 2 downsides for me: 1. the time and boredom of doing my legs, although I will be reducing the frequency of treatments now due to the already good effects 2. the power lead's not quite long enough (I need an extension lead to be able to position myself in good light for my legs and by a mirror for everywhere else). I've used it for 4 months now and it was perfect for the build up to a holiday. The price of this compact was great to test out the effect that this treatment has on my skin. I will definitely keep using this.

## Features

- Cost effective: Up to GBP160 cheaper a year than Salon Waxing*
- Fast: Slide and Flash mode for efficient treatment of large areas such as legs
- Effective: Up to 80% reduction in hair regrowth in just 8 weeks then simply repeat treatment as necessary to prevent re-growth
- Convenient: Advanced Salon technology for use at home at a time to suit you. Corded, ready to use, no gels or accessories needed
- Versatile: Suitable for face, legs, arms, bikini area and underarms. 5 light energy settings - suitable for most skin tones and hair colours

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B00MOH9AS0 |
| ASIN  | B00MOH9AS0 |
| Brand | Philips |
| Customer Reviews | 3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars (63) |
| Customer reviews | 3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars (63) |
| Date First Available | 10 Aug. 2014 |
| Item model number  | SC1981/00 |
| Manufacturer  | Philips |
| Package Dimensions  | 18.4 x 18.4 x 10.2 cm; 639.99 g |

## Images

![Philips SC1981/00 Lumea Compact IPL Hair Removal System for Face and Body - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71MTO9QThCL.jpg)
![Philips SC1981/00 Lumea Compact IPL Hair Removal System for Face and Body - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/816i2-XbMqL.jpg)
![Philips SC1981/00 Lumea Compact IPL Hair Removal System for Face and Body - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71ybsPKSOPL.jpg)
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best hair removal method I've used
*by R***N on 27 January 2018*

I bought my Lumea 1.5 years ago, and for me, it's been an absolutely fantastic, I only wish I had earlier! I have near-black hair, and mediterranean/asian skin, so I only use it on the level 4 setting as advised, instead of the highest level 5. In some areas I'm 90% hair free, in others about 50%, but this fluctuates depending on when I last did a treatment and what stage of growth the hair is in. Pictures included show my legs and armpits as they are currently - this is 6 days after shaving, and about a month after my latest Lumea treatment. I still shave to take care of the few hairs that are left behind, but I don't do this as often, and my skin looks and feels wayyy smoother than it would through shaving alone. Positives + painless to use + actually hair-free skin + results that last a long time, longer than waxing Negatives - each treatment takes significant time to do thoroughly, about twice as long as the product claims: it takes me 60-90 minutes to do both legs - from reading the other reviews, it sounds like it doesn't reliably work for everybody When I first got it, I followed the instructions of doing fortnightly sessions for 16 weeks. After that I noticed diminished hair growth but not really gone. Following the instructions I switched to once a month for a while. After three or four months of that I didn't have much regrowth, not enough to make it feel worthwhile doing as often, so I switched down to whenever it seems necessary, which is currently about once every 4 months. I love it. I've always had problems with other hair removal methods: * shaving with a razor gives me razor-burn (irritated red and bumpy skin) * waxing always gives me ingrown hairs and doesn't last long enough to feel worth the effort * epitalor was incredibly painful and no better results than waxing * laser hair removal, I tried a tester session and I found it so painful I couldn't bear it (my pain tolerance is quite low). Before the Lumea I was just using an electric shaver, which is quick and easy and doesn't have any negative side effects, but doesn't leave skin super smooth, and of course regrowth is pretty quick. I still use my shaver before Lumea treatments, and in between to take care of the remaining hairs. When so much of your body hair is gone, the few that are left aren't actually that noticeable. I have had different amounts of success on different parts of my body. * legs and bikini line are the best, about 90% hair-free for the months in between regrowth * belly/chest, upper lip are pretty good, mostly hair free but I treat these areas fairly often still because I want to keep them 100%, luckily this doesn't take too long because it's only a few small areas * armpits haven't really worked at all for me, maybe 50% less hair but still quite a bit remaining. I don't know if this is because the concave shape of the armpit means it's hard to get close contact with the Lumea, even though I try to make it flat. Update: I've been doing my armpits more frequently recently and it's down to about 40% hair remaining. If my Lumea broke or I lost it, I would definitely buy another one - but I would probably upgrade to a bigger model. I chose this one initially because it was cheaper and more lightweight. The lightness does make it easier to use, but I think I'd prefer to trade that now for the bigger window on the larger models which would make treatments a quicker.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A great purchase for a first timer at trying IPL hair removal
*by I***N on 4 December 2015*

Ok.... so I'm not totally hair free but what I can say for my hair colour which is dark brown and skin type which is quite pale, the hair growth is much slower, thinner, patchy and softer/less stubbly. I can go for much longer between shaves which has left my skin softer/less dry. I have less of a shadow on my underarms. It's simple and pain free to use. The are 2 downsides for me: 1. the time and boredom of doing my legs, although I will be reducing the frequency of treatments now due to the already good effects 2. the power lead's not quite long enough (I need an extension lead to be able to position myself in good light for my legs and by a mirror for everywhere else). I've used it for 4 months now and it was perfect for the build up to a holiday. The price of this compact was great to test out the effect that this treatment has on my skin. I will definitely keep using this.

### ⭐ Rubbish, wouldn't recommend - just doesn't work.
*by S***C on 9 May 2016*

Quite simply, a waste of money. This product doesn't even work on strong dark hairs on the highest setting. Go to a salon instead, where you know it is going to remove hair. I have been having salon laser hair removal for a number of years, it works great, completely removes hairs permanently. I bought this as a top up In Between sessions, but wish I hadn't bothered. It's not cheap, but the laser light is not strong enough to do anything. Probably for safety reasons, so what's the point?

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