Thread: Saponificio varesino

I enjoy the products from this company, especially their shaving soaps, aftershaves, and bath soaps. Several people, whose opinion I respect, have given positive reviews of the brushes. I would have ordered one, only the loft is a little low for me (50mm), as I like a higher loft than most people. I think it looks like an excellent, and very attractive brush. I do think that it's a heavy brush, given that it's trimmed in pewter.

I have not tried them, but I've seen and handled them, they are not so heavy (115g). The price is faire in my opinion, compared to the density and the size of the diameter (26mm !), and the material used (I believe some woods are more expensive than resin, but correct me if I'm wrong ?). Alessandro told us that when developping these brushes, he had to ask 5 times to the knot manufacturer to make it denser. The result is indeed very compacted. Here are some pictures I took :