Thread: First shave with a badger brush. Wow!

It was my second full shave overall and my first using a badger brush. I feel like I have been missing the world.

I always read that the badger brushes were far superior but I also read some people who say that they still use a boar bristle brush after years of shaving so I figured I was in no rush to get a badger brush. Well this weekend I noticed a shave stand with a cartridge handle and a brush for sale at a yardsale. Sure enough the brush was badger and when I was told the sale price was $2 for the set I was sold.

I couldn't wait until Sunday for my weekend shave. I have never in my shaving career made such a smooth, creamy lather. With the boar brush I would have to use a lot of soap to pull up the lather but it was hard to get the right amount of water so the lather would dry on my face. Then the lather in the brush would collapse so it was like brushing my face with just water. This time the lather formed easily and stayed on my face for the whole pass. There was plently to re-lather for pass 2 and still a ton left in the brush when I washed it.

Im hooked, never again will I let pig hair touch my face. To all the newbies out there that are on the fence about which brush to get or are having trouble making lather with a boar bristle I recommend getting a badger brush. It's a world of difference.