Thread: Shaving Brush Beginner - What One to get?

it is said somewhere here in the beginning a brush is a brush is a brush!

that being said

this is the answer you have been looking for. Van der Hagen, men's luxury shave set!

https://www.amazon.com/Van-Hagen-Men...agen+shave+set

it less than $20 bucks, comes with a nice brush, mug and stand.(toss the soap) if you take to this art, we have some awesome members that can upgrade the knot for you (that's only if you want to) at a very reasonable and comparable to cost to the top dollar brushes. in the end you will have a nice and matching brush and mug set and a stand thank can hold your for razor.

wish I did that!!!

I really like the synthetics most of all. They don't hold water as well as natural bristles, though that isn't a problem with proper technique. The synthetics have advantages over natural fiber as well.

One of my favorites is a little $9 brush. Here's a link:

https://www.maggardrazors.com/produc...rush-4-colors/

It is synthetic boar, which means that is firm. The shaving term for that is that it has a lot of backbone.

Here is one of my favorite synthetic badgers, which comes in at a whopping $11.99.

https://www.maggardrazors.com/produc...marble-handle/

The advice I gave you on another forum is what I would still offer.
Good luck.

Like some other posters have already, I would like to steer you towards a high-quality synthetic brush. My recommendation would be a medium to large sized Mühle Silvertip Fibre®, as they call it, which comes surprisingly close in performance to a "real" top of the line silvertip badger brush. If you stick to their "classic" style, you won't have to pay for any of the fancier handle materials.

These brushes come from an innovative, hghly respected company that has been in the business for generations, work extremely well, are robust, and forgive early handling mistakes.

Once you have decided whether shaving brushes are for you, you will find that you have entered the game at a high level already and are able to judge better whether the additional expense of a real silvertip badger brush is for you, or whether you want to experiment with boar, or even horse hair.

Good luck with your choice.



B.

As you can see everyone has an opinion as to what to get. Bargain brushes, expensive brushes, boar, horse, badger, synthetic, good, bad ugly-har har. They are all right for them.

That is why I say buy for your initial brush a middle of the road in a hair that most people use which is badger. After that you can try other types and see what you like the best.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Brushes are one of those things you don't know what you like until you try them. Best advice is get a middle quality, middle size badger hair brush and then go from there.

That is exactly why it is so difficult to recommend a shave brush to anyone. Everyone has personal likes and dislikes and mine may or may not match yours.

I went through a few different brushes till I found the type of badger brush, boar brush and synthetic brush that I liked.

Bob