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Electric Sweater Shavers – Remove Pullover Pills and Fuzz Removal

Updated on February 25, 2012

Portable battery operated or handheld electric sweater shavers can be a godsend if your wardrobe consists of even a few favorite sweaters or other knitted and wool clothes. Knitted woolen sweaters, pullovers and jumpers look great when they first come off the rack or off of your own talented hands but over time they start to accumulate unsightly fuzz, bobbles and pilling. Sweater pills and pullover bobbles of fuzz make your knitted clothing look old before their time and fuzz removal by hand is time consuming and boring.

That's where knitted sweater shavers come in handy. These useful laundry gadgets remove the little balls of fuzz which build up on knitted pullovers and jumpers quickly and easily, turning a mind numbingly boring chore into a simple task. An electric clothing shaver will remove sweater pills and lint fuzz and make your old clothes look like new again and as they're really inexpensive too, it's a no-brainer purchase which will save you money in the long term.

How Do Sweater Shavers Work?

The old answer to the question of how to remove sweater pills was to sit there by hand picking fuzzy lumps off the fabric, one at a time. Boring! Jumper shavers, on the other hand, make this much easier.

A portable sweater shaver is a small handheld gadget which typically fits in the palm of your hand, with a small handle on the back for you to hold onto whilst it does its thing. The head of the machine usually has a round metal faceplate pocked with round holes behind which are rotary cutting blades. The rest of the machine is a lint chamber which catches the sweater pills.

To use the device and remove sweater pill fuzz, you simply switch on and run the head of the gadget lightly over the clothing. The fuzzy bobbles will be lifted up through the perforated holes and sliced off by the rotary blade inside and sucked into the lint chamber for dumping later. Yes, it's that simple. The most common types are battery powered lint shavers, but you also find corded electric sweater shavers and now, also some which attach to the nozzle of your vacuum cleaner. Those which run on batteries are the most common however.

Which Are The Best Sweater Shavers?

There are several manufacturers who produce these fabric shaving gadgets and you'll be pleased to know, they are a pretty inexpensive item which typically retails from around $10 tfor a basic lint shaver to $50 for a very good model. At this price and considering they will lengthen the lifespan on all kinds of fabric items including sweaters, blankets, certain types of upholstery and more, it's hard to argue against buying one. The following sweater shavers are rated highly by real consumers.

Remington Fuzz-Away Fabric Shaver, RTFS-2
Remington Fuzz-Away Fabric Shaver, RTFS-2
Remington shavers are world reknowned for their quality and the Remington fuzz away fabric shaver is equally well reviewed by real users and at this price its hard to ignore. For less than $10 you get a small portable fabrix shaer whcih will quickly remove lint, fuzz, pills and threads from a variety of fabric types including curtains, socks, couch upholstery, sweaters, woolen gloves and more. Reviewers do complain the lint holder is a little small and will therefore require regular emptying but at this price, who's complaining!
 
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