Thread: Boar vs Badger Shaving Brushes Which is Best ?

I suppose if you had 100 brushes and wanted to differentiate them, that'd be one way.

but i'm thinkin' "hype". I love anything rated above pure badger. And I've been told that pure badger is a big leap from boar. But others like boar just fine. It's a really personal thing, about your face. Not your soap.

Any badger worth lathering will lather any soap in my experience.

Well brushes are a matter of choice and there are a gazillion choices. The things to think about are Softness. Boar is the scritchy side of the scale. Silver tip Badger the other. On a puck of soap you may want a brush with back bone. A Boar has lots of it. Picks up soap easier. With creams it's mostly about whipping. I have a long horse hair brush that makes cream lather easy but feels like a mop on the face. I have a 2mm Silver tip that picks soap off a puck just fine. Your going to have to flip a quater maybe but there are difference to think about. Read up :<0)

I think a black badger would be the next step up from boar.

I have got boar, various variety of badger hair brushes and a few synthetics. They will all lather up any cream, croap (soft Italian soaps like Proraso) or hard soap I want to use. They all do the job but need slightly different techniques to get the best out of them and they all have a different feel on the face. From the ability to make a good lather POV I'd have to say there is no best. There is a best but that would depend on what you like in a brush and the only way to find that out is to try a variety of them.

Bob