Thread: They're nasty animals but....

Why not a Camel hair Shave brush? They use them to apply paint so why not lather? has anyone researched camel as a media for shaving?

We all want to know.

No I have not

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Why not a Camel hair Shave brush? They use them to apply paint so why not lather? has anyone researched camel as a media for shaving?

We all want to know.

I don't know about Camel hair, but somebody thought of using goat hair.

I have found some madam's make up brushes in squirrel (tree rat,) Sable, Camel, and so on; the same materials as artistes' brushes which are seldom very large in diameter. 12-14 mm seems to be the largest. Those seem to be very soft like a very old badger in good condition. But they do lather and make good travel brushes when dropped into a piece of PVC pipe having caps with holes in them.
Goat shown.

Spendur,

Why not a camel hair shave brush? I hope not a camel hair shave brush. I rode a camel in my youth in the Middle East. That is one crazy animal that has a tendency to spit at you. I can just see the ornery brush floating out of the shave den in the middle of the night and lathering my sleeping mug with spit. OY!

Curious thing. I found one goat's hair brush to buy and i'll give a try to see what happens.

OK, I have to tell an anecdote here:

And old girlfriend and I were at a small local zoo. We had bought icre cream cones filled with kibble to feed the animals. We got to the camel, and I kept moving my cone up to the camel, he would go to eat it, and I would pull it away. I did this about three times (I know, bad me for teasing the poor camel). My girlfriend came over yelling at me for doing that to the poor camel, and she raised her cone for him to eat.... *SPLAT* Camel spit was now running down her hair. I was rolling! She wasn't so happy, of course, and I paid for my insolence, but, man was that funny!

Ok, me behaving badly aside: Perhaps we dont see camel hair brushes because their coats are adaptive of their environment. Like perhaps they wont hold onto water, or hold on to it too much? Just a guess.

Originally Posted by Aldwyn

OK, I have to tell an anecdote here:

And old girlfriend and I were at a small local zoo. We had bought icre cream cones filled with kibble to feed the animals. We got to the camel, and I kept moving my cone up to the camel, he would go to eat it, and I would pull it away. I did this about three times (I know, bad me for teasing the poor camel). My girlfriend came over yelling at me for doing that to the poor camel, and she raised her cone for him to eat.... *SPLAT* Camel spit was now running down her hair. I was rolling! She wasn't so happy, of course, and I paid for my insolence, but, man was that funny!

Ok, me behaving badly aside: Perhaps we dont see camel hair brushes because their coats are adaptive of their environment. Like perhaps they wont hold onto water, or hold on to it too much? Just a guess.

LOL - I had almost the same thing happen to me in Germany - at the Berlin Zoo, beautiful country, and Berlin is a stunning city.

We were all watching the elephants, and this one big bull kept waving his trunk at us, he was trying to get across the ditch, snorting, and huffing at us...so I finally huffed back at him and BAM! This elephant just hosed me down with sand, spat all over us.

I looked over and saw this sign in German, and I said to my GF and another couple, I bet that sign say's, "Caution - the Elephant Spits" or something....this very nice German couple burst out laughing and said, "Yes, that's exactly what the sign says...hahah!"...very cool people, we ended up having lunch with them.

There is a nature park not too far from me that has camels, and they will take the food buckets from the kids and just throw them on the ground!
As for your original question, I don't know how many of their hairs would be long enough to make a decent brush...
by the way- badgers are not known for being cute and cuddly animals either!

Camel's hair brush and Camel's spit lather! Super-slick!