SPRINGFIELD, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 8, 2026--
A men’s body groomer with more than 17,000 five-star Amazon reviews has a maker, and today that maker has a name, a belief, and a much bigger story to tell. SPOTMATE — the personal care company behind the MANSPOT Body & Groin Trimmer and LADYSPOT women’s grooming tools — is officially introducing itself, with a brand refresh, a new direct-to-consumer store at SpotMateCare.com, and the idea behind everything it makes: Get A Little Closer.
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For Spotmate, grooming has never just been about the razor. It’s about what the razor gets you closer to — the date, the game, the meeting, the version of yourself that shows up ready. That belief is the foundation of the brand, and it’s driving the next chapter for both MANSPOT and LADYSPOT.
Spotmate products remain available everywhere they always have — Amazon and TikTok Shop — and now, for the first time, directly at SpotMateCare.com. To mark the moment, Spotmate is offering 50% off the best-selling MANSPOT Body & Groin Trimmer during launch week, July 8–30, with code GETCLOSER.
GET A LITTLE CLOSER
Get A Little Closer is the belief that grooming isn't just about the tool — it's about what it gets you closer to. Closer to confident, closer to ready, closer to whoever you're trying to be when it counts. No salon required. No luxury tax.
MANSPOT proved this for men first — 17,000 five-star Amazon reviews and counting, built on a body and groin trimmer that out-performs trimmers twice its price. LADYSPOT has quietly been doing the same for women, available on Amazon and TikTok Shop, waiting for its moment in the spotlight. That moment is now. Every Spotmate product — MANSPOT and LADYSPOT alike — carries the Spotmate name and mark, so no matter which one you reach for, you know exactly who’s behind it.
It’s just the beginning — new products launching in late July and September will bring Get A Little Closer to even more people, in even more ways. Keep this brand on your radar.
“MANSPOT already proved something to 17,000 people: you don’t need to overpay for a great shave. Today, we’re putting our name on that promise — for MANSPOT, for LADYSPOT, and for everything we make next. Get a little closer. Fortune favors the shave.”
— Sophia Yang, Chief Marketing Officer, Spotmate
MANSPOT: WHERE IT STARTED
Premium grooming got expensive for no good reason, and the MANSPOT Body & Groin Trimmer has spent four years proving you don’t have to pay for it anyway. Trusted by more than 17,000 five-star reviewers, it delivers SpotGlide™ Blade Technology and IPX7-rated waterproof construction — at $59.90.
LADYSPOT: WHAT’S BEEN WAITING
Women have had two options for too long: pay for a salon, or settle for a razor that was never built for their bodies. LADYSPOT exists to end that — built by the same team, with the same SpotGlide™ technology behind MANSPOT, and quietly available until now. A new tool engineered specifically for the curves and contours of women’s bodies is arriving late July. No salon markup. No settling.
ABOUT SPOTMATE
SPOTMATE is the personal care company behind MANSPOT and LADYSPOT, built on one idea: Get A Little Closer. Founded in 2021 and based in Springfield, MO, Spotmate makes grooming tools for men and women who refuse to overpay — because premium performance should never come with a luxury markup. Shop direct at spotmatecare.com, also available on Amazon and TikTok Shop.
Get A Little Closer. Fortune Favors the Shave.
Fortune favors the shave — spotmatecare.com
NEW YORK (AP) — Middle-income Americans straining to pay for Affordable Care Act health insurance are unlikely to get relief next year, according to a new analysis that shows insurers in the marketplace are proposing a second straight year of double-digit premium hikes.
Across the 77 insurers in the ACA program that have submitted rate filings that are publicly available, the median proposed premium increase for 2027 is 14%, according to Wednesday’s analysis from the healthcare research nonprofit KFF. The insurers cited mounting healthcare costs, federal regulatory changes and the recent expiration of pandemic-era enhanced subsidies as the biggest factors driving premiums higher.
The rise in premiums adds to what already was a significant jump in 2026, when the median rate increase was 20%, according to KFF.
While most Americans in Obamacare still qualify for subsidies that protect them from paying the full premiums, middle-class enrollees who don't get those subsidies will face an especially stark increase in costs. That group includes households with incomes at or above 400% of the poverty level — about $63,000 per year for an individual or $129,000 for a family of four.
The rate increases come as federal lawmakers have proposed various policy changes to overhaul the expensive U.S. healthcare system, but no comprehensive legislation has amassed enough support to pass. The higher costs are contributing to Americans’ existing worries about overall affordability, a concern that many voters say is front of mind with November’s midterm elections looming.
Health insurers must send filings to regulators every year, explaining what they expect to see in premium rate changes for individual market health plans for the coming year.
Next year’s rates will be finalized later in the summer, but KFF’s analysis looked at those in the ACA marketplace that already are public across 16 states and Washington, D.C., to get an early glimpse at what insurers are saying. The report measured insurers' premium increases as an average across all types of plans — bronze, silver, gold and platinum.
The analysis found that insurers listed rising costs across the healthcare sector — from hospital visits to prescription drugs, the workforce and sicker patients — as the biggest cause of rising premiums. Overall inflation contributed to that pressure, driving prices higher across the entire economy.
Insurers also blamed the expiration of federal subsidies that had offset costs for many people and caused the Affordable Care Act program to balloon in size in recent years. When those tax credits expired in January, many plan costs skyrocketed. That prompted large swaths of enrollees to depart the marketplace, leaving sicker patients who carry higher risks and costs, and driving premiums higher.
New state-by-state data posted by the Trump administration shows that the overall ACA marketplace shrunk by more than 2.5 million people over the past year, with some states seeing declines amounting to nearly a third of their enrollee population.
Some insurers added that federal regulatory changes contributed to their requests for higher premiums. For example, they said new enrollment and eligibility requirements instituted by the Trump administration could affect the overall population of ACA enrollees.
While Affordable Care Act enrollees make up less than 10% of the population, similar cost drivers are likely to make other private plans, including employer-sponsored plans, pricier too, according to KFF’s analysis.
Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms also published an analysis of preliminary ACA insurer rate filings last month. Like KFF's, it projected double-digit premium increases in the marketplace next year.
Stacey Pogue, a senior research fellow at the center who authored the report, said the enrollees most affected by the rising premiums will be those who don't qualify for financial help. She said those people already saw the most significant increases to their premiums in 2026, with some of their premiums doubling or tripling.
“Those are the folks who kind of got a double whammy” this year, she said.
Pogue said the rate filings are demonstrating what many analysts had expected: that the expiration of enhanced tax credits would cause healthy Americans to flee the marketplace and leave a sicker patient population that relies more heavily on insurance.
“When the healthy people leave, the prices go up,” she said. “The analysts all predicted that, and now that's what we're seeing.”
FILE - The healthcare.gov website is seen on Dec. 14, 2021, in Fort Washington, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
FILE - A man walks by an healthcare insurance office in Hialeah, Fla., July 27, 2017, (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)
