Rediscover Shaving With A Badger Hair Shaving Brush
With all the ways of shaving out there, why is shaving with a badger hair shaving brush almost always referred to as the best shave you can get?
Normally shaving brush bristles are made out of a nylon synthetic, boar’s hair, or badger hair. It’s your face, and your morning ritual takes a lot of time over the years, so the decision as to the one that is best for you is not to be taken lightly. Questions you should ask yourself if you are running a little comparison between the three are: How well does the brush hold water? How long will the brush last? How do the brush bristles feel on the skin of my face?
So what about retaining water, a vital ingredient if your aim is to work up a nice healthy lather? Well it’s almost embarrassing to have to say this but the plastic brush bristles are very poorly suited to the purpose of water retention. The last thing the plastic is is absorbent and you need to have a good amount of water on your brush in order to make the sort of blather that you need for a comfortable shave. Now the boar’s hair brush is much much better at retaining water, and so is light-years ahead of any sort of plastic brush. Having said that you will find that most shaving experts prefer the badger hair shaving brush as being far and away your best choice when it comes to water retention.
As far as durability goes, naturally anything plastic will tend to last a long time, and that would have to be one advantage of choosing a plastic bristle shaving brush. The downside though is that your plastic brush is going to be a lot less comfortable, all things considered, even if it has a very fine set of bristles. So what of the boar’s hair shaving brush bristles? Unfortunately they have a lot of stiffness to them which leads them to break fairly quickly, certainly faster than plastic bristles, and as it turns out faster than the softer badger hair brush bristles.
As to the feel of each of the three kinds of bristles on your face, there really is very little debate on the subject. Will a plastic shaving brush feel better on your skin than a big toothbrush? Probably, but that’s not saying a whole lot. Certainly the boar’s hair brush will feel better than a plastic brush, as it is at least an organic substance, but these brushes are also known to become stiff after just a few years worth of use. The clear winner in the category of comfort is the badger hair brush and this shouldn’t really come as such a surprise as it is such a famous brush.
So when it comes to making the lather, which the whole point of using a shaving brush in the first place, the badger hair shaving brush comes out on top. It also does in terms of durability, and as to comfort, it is simply unsurpassed.
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