Thread: Boar vs Badger Shaving Brushes Which is Best ?

Originally Posted by Nightblade

Tried my Pure badger today after months of not using it..................I love my Semogue Boar....forever.

Awwww. That's sweet. A man and his boar brush.

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Originally Posted by Nightblade

Tried my Pure badger today after months of not using it..................I love my Semogue Boar....forever.

I like my semogue, and the cheap bristle brush i bought from the chemist, i have a soft badger brush, but its a bit fluffy for my liking.

Boar.........on the other hand...

Originally Posted by edhewitt

I like my semogue, and the cheap bristle brush i bought from the chemist, i have a soft badger brush, but its a bit fluffy for my liking.

This. Had I only ever had one brush and never known the difference it would have been fine, whichever it was.

I have had a number of boars and also badgers. In general, the boars are stiffer and exfoliate more thoroughly, but I've found that they don't hold the amount of lather that the better badgers will, so you end up going back to the puck for multiple pass shaves. I still rotate both, if I had to choose for desert island purposes it would be a best badger.

So my humble 2¢ would be get a badger and compare to the boar that you already have.

Originally Posted by Nightblade

Tried my Pure badger today after months of not using it..................I love my Semogue Boar....forever.

This is EXACTLY how I feel about my Guangxi stone.

I have on Omega boar, some unnamed vintage pure badger, a Royal Shave 2 band badger, a Champkom synthetic, and a. Art of Shaving silvertip.

Each one feels noticeably different. Even all the badger ones. From my experience the boar doesnt come close to forming the amount of lather that a badger does.

As far as the feel of them you have already been told boar is the stiffest and itll get softer as you go up the badger ladder. Its going to be a matter of preference on what you like to put on your face. My personal favorite is the Silvertip. But I also love variety so I rotate all my brushes.

When you mix up you razors, soaps, and brushes it makes each shave experience very different and keeps things fun. I like how it feels to have a new type of shave each time. Some feel better than others but you get the good with the bad.

I have a cheap badger, cheap boar, and cheap badger/boar mix. I find myself using the mix almost every time. When i do choose to use one of the others, i always end up using the mixed brush the next time around for a couple shaves. It' all about preference, and experimenting hands on.

Badger feels much nicer than boar. I will always go with badger brushes from now on. Just my personal preference.