Personal care device

The present invention relates to a personal care device, in particular a hair removal device such as an electric shaver, comprising an elongated handle for manually moving the personal care device in a short stroke and/or a long stroke along a body surface; a work head attached to the handle to perform a personal care treatment on the body surface; and a determination unit comprising at least one sensor for determining a stroke length to distinguish between a short stroke and a long stroke, in which the determination unit is configured to determine a speed of the working head and/or the handle, to determine a starting point and an ending point of the stroke when the determined speed becomes zero and/or a sign is changed, and to determine a length of the stroke when the determined speed becomes zero and/or a sign is changed. And determining a stroke length according to a distance between a starting point and an ending point of a pair adjacent to each other. 本发明涉及一种个人护理装置，特别是诸如电动剃刀的毛发移除装置，其包括伸长的柄部，该伸长的柄部用于沿着身体表