Hello all, I am in the market for a travel brush.

I have a couple of decent badger brushes (Kent and Simpson) but I am loathed to pack them for travel. I was thinking that something in synthetic hair might be a good choice because they are easier (so I have heard) to care for in terms of drying time etc.

My dilemma comes when I go to websites that I have used here in the UK that the prices range from £5.95 for an Omega S brush to pretty much anything you want to pay even rivalling silver tip badger prices. I have no experience with synthetic hair other than a supermarket branded brush I had twenty years ago which was just awful.

I keep reading that things have moved on a lot since then. So I am open to suggestion really and any recommendations and advice would be very welcome.

I was in a Loccitane store recently and they had a synthetic brush which felt fantastic, it was £35 which is reasonable until you compare it to the Omega S brush mentioned earlier...

I hope this isn't the start of SBAD, as I am not sure I have the funds for another acquisition disorder!