CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 8, 2026--
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, this month launched the Philips Lumea IPL 9900 Pro, transforming at-home hair removal into a personalized and rewarding self-care routine. Philips Lumea IPL 9900 Pro is the first at-home IPL with audio feedback and motion guidance that talks to users 2, helping give them greater confidence in effective treatment. As the world’s no. 1 IPL brand 3, Philips brings 25 years of IPL research and clinically proven results right into the home, empowering people to enjoy five years of smooth-feeling skin. 4
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“We've taken everything we've learned from decades of light-based technology research and transformed it into an intelligent product that works with you, not against you,” said Dominique Oh, Global Beauty & Grooming Business Unit Leader, Philips. “The Philips Lumea 9900 Pro is proof that when health technology meets well-being, you create solutions that are designed to improve lives – one smooth, confident moment at a time.”
“The Philips Lumea 9900 Pro represents our commitment to empowering women with innovative health and beauty solutions that enhance their confidence and freedom,” said Wonsook Ko, Global Category Leader, Beauty, Philips. “We understand that every woman’s skin, hair and self-care journey are different and a one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t lead to rewarding results. Now you can be coached and guided in your hair removal, helping you understand your results and stay motivated throughout your unique hair removal journey.”
The easiest long-lasting hair removal by Philips5
The Lumea IPL app, downloadable via the Apple App Store or Google Play, tracks users’ movements in real-time. As they progress along their legs, the app gives them live audio feedback to help enhance coverage and technique. The audio cues and visual prompts coach through each session, helping even first-time IPL users use the device with confidence from the start.
Long-lasting results (meaning good-bye constant hair removal!)
For women who feel most confident being hair-free, hair removal can add to an endless mental checklist –“when did I last wax?” or “do I have time to shave?” – and be an all-too-frequent chore. With more than 90% hair reduction after just three treatments 6 and five years of smooth-feeling skin 7 with little maintenance (just one session per month after the initial treatment period), the Philips Lumea IPL 9900 Pro system breaks the often-tedious hair removal cycle. No more frantic bathroom sprints or last-minute waxing appointments. Instead, users can say “yes” to spontaneous beach trips, spur-of-the-moment dates and feeling like their most confident selves.
Self-care personalized to you
Every woman is unique and so is her skin and hair, meaning one-size-fits-all hair removal can lead to unsatisfactory results time and time again. The Philips Lumea IPL 9900 Pro device has intelligent SenseIQ Pro sensor technology which determines individual skin tone and guides users to the recommended light setting, 8 for effective, comfortable and safe treatment. It also has smart progress tracking that provides post-treatment reports that analyze hair reduction progress, and personalized recommendations, helping users understand their results and stay motivated throughout their unique hair removal journeys.
Effective and safe – even on sensitive skin
The Philips Lumea IPL 9900 Pro device harnesses the safe and proven technology of Intense Pulsed Light, using gentle pulses of light that stimulate hair follicles in their growth phase to go into a resting phase. The hairs then shed and regrowth is slowed. Bringing both clinical credibility and added features for safety to at-home IPL use, the Philips Lumea IPL 9900 Pro device has U.S. FDA clearance.
Availability:
Philips Lumea IPL 9900 Pro is now available for purchase on Amazon’s U.S. store, MSRP $699.95. The device comes with an extended five-year warranty with product registration.
About Philips:
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a leading health technology company focused on improving people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation. Philips’ patient- and people-centric innovation leverages advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights to deliver personal health solutions for consumers and professional health solutions for healthcare providers and their patients in the hospital and the home.
Headquartered in the Netherlands, the company is a leader in image-guided therapy, diagnostic imaging, ultrasound, monitoring, enterprise informatics and personal health. Philips generated 2025 sales of approximately EUR 18 billion and employs approximately 63,700 employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries. News about Philips can be found at www.philips.com/newscenter.
The Philips Lumea 9900 Pro is first of its kind IPL hair removal device with real-time audio feedback and motion guidance.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin assured U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call Tuesday that Moscow doesn't harbor aggressive tendencies toward Europe, a senior Kremlin official said, after European officials expressed concern about Russian sabotage campaigns on their soil.
Also Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that U.S. envoys who visited Kyiv presented some “very good, worthwhile ideas” for ending Russia's 4 1/2-year-old war, adding that he hopes to meet with President Donald Trump within two weeks.
But Russia remains determined to accomplish its military goals and it believes it is close to winning, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Ukrainian and Western observers believe that Moscow has been unable to make any significant progress on the front line.
The war could yet drag on for years as Russia reconstitutes its forces and its defense industry, said U.S. Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby.
“We must be prepared for a protracted conflict and for Ukraine’s requirements to persist in the months and years ahead,” Colby told an online meeting of countries helping Ukraine.
U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff visited Moscow and Kyiv for separate talks with Putin and Zelenskyy over the weekend. The meetings appeared to produce no substantial breakthrough on ending the fighting, and both countries resumed their deadly air war after a weekend truce in their capitals for the American visitors.
The attacks killed at least five civilians and wounded 25 others in Kyiv, officials said, while officials from Russia reported three people killed and 13 wounded in areas it controls.
Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s foreign affairs adviser, told reporters that “in view of the speculation about Russia’s alleged hostile intentions toward European countries, it was underlined that we don’t have any aggressive plans regarding Europe.”
Ushakov also said Putin told Trump about the combat situation in Ukraine and Russia’s plans to make battlefield gains and achieve its military goals. He said that Moscow has a positive view of the results of the weekend visit to Moscow by Witkoff and Kushner.
Zelenskyy said he is counting on meeting with Trump around Sept. 20 — about the same time that the U.N. General Assembly is being held in New York.
He indicated he will press Trump to provide more Patriot air defense systems that Kyiv needs to counter Russia's ballistic missiles.
Ukraine needs 300 Patriot missiles from its partners’ stocks, 500 air-to-air interceptors and $2 billion for more drones, U.K. Defense Secretary Wes Streeting told the meeting of countries providing help.
Also on Tuesday, the European Commission approved a loan of 3.2 billion euros ($3.7 billion) for Kyiv to purchase components for Patriot air defense systems, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said on its Telegram channel.
Zelenskyy thanked U.S. officials for their efforts to unblock negotiations with Russia, which have been stuck since early this year with little progress.
“As for the peace package that Kushner spoke about and the new ideas, I’ll tell you frankly, there were indeed a couple of very good, worthwhile ideas,” Zelenskyy said in audio messages answering reporters' questions.
The proposals will remain under wraps for now, he said, but he expressed hope that talks involving delegations from Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. can take place in the fall.
Ukraine is “ready to find a compromise” on the issues of grain exports and energy, he said. Moscow and Kyiv have targeted each other’s grain ships in the Black Sea, raising concerns that two of the world's major suppliers won't be able to get their produce to market.
Ukraine has also battered Russian oil facilities while Russia has pounded Ukraine's power grid ahead of winter.
A Moscow official said he believed “victory is very close” on the battlefield.
"We’re very confident in our military potential,” Peskov told reporters, while insisting Russia wants to find a peaceful solution and welcomes Trump's diplomatic efforts.
Putin has sought to portray Russia as negotiating from a position of strength. But European officials and Western analysts say its bigger army is unable to make significant progress on the 1,250-kilometer (800-mile) front line, where it is pushing to capture the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, part of its industrial heartland.
“Russian forces will not seize Donetsk ... until 2032 at their current rate of advance — if they can seize it at all,” the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, said Sunday. “The Russian rate of advance has slowed significantly across the theater since 2025, when Russia’s rate of advance had already begun to slow.”
With troops bogged down on the battlefield, both countries have intensified their aerial campaign of drones and missiles.
Russia’s main targets in its overnight attack were Kyiv and the Odesa region of southern Ukraine. At least 25 people were wounded in Kyiv, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ivan Vyhivskyi said. There was no immediate tally of casualties in Odesa.
Explosions were heard in Kyiv for nearly five hours, according to Vyhivskyi. More than 50 sites were damaged in Kyiv during the overnight attack, including residential buildings, dormitories, schools, shops, gas stations and a flour production plant, he said.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called it “a horrific attack” and accused Putin of undermining U.S. peace efforts.
“His ballistic missiles speak louder than his words on diplomacy,” Sybiha said on X, referring to Putin. “Strike after strike on residential buildings brings him no closer to winning this war — it is nothing but senseless terror.”
The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces overnight launched a massive strike on Ukrainian military industry facilities.
It provided a detailed list of its targets. They included places storing Ukrainian drones and cruise missiles, as well as transport, logistics and distribution centers for military cargo in Kyiv and the Kyiv region, the ministry said.
Infrastructure in the port of Chornomorsk in the Odesa region used for “unloading military cargo” was also struck.
Associated Press journalists Vasilisa Stepanenko in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Lorne Cook in Brussels contributed.
Follow the AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
A rescue worker puts out a fire of a building destroyed after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
Smoke rises following a Russian missiles attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Firefighters try to extinguish a fire following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Firefighters try to extinguish a fire following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Firefighters try to extinguish a fire following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Firefighters try to extinguish a fire following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
A man walks along an underpass as smoke rises following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
