Thread: Boar brush

Gents, don't fall into the trap or diatribe that brushes exfoliate your skin. it is the razor that exfoliates. Your brush simply applies the lather. If you are having issues, apply the lather and wait 5 minutes before you shave. What? Your lather doesn't last that long. Then you simply need to spend more time learning how to build lather with your soap/cream. What? You question this???

Okay. Here is your test. Work up your lather. Apply it to your face. Now. Go strop your razor. Do it properly. Yes, use both the linen and leather side of the strop. How is your lather now? If it is not shave worthy...you still have a learning curve to climb. No matter what you shave with, if your lather collapses, you need to work on your lather.

RT

Good point RT.
What's it mean if the soap burns the 1st layer of skin off of your face while testing the hypothesis?

I get a burning sensation if any soap is on my lips for a while but not my face. In fact I could use petrol (gas for you colonials ) as aftershave on my face and it wouldn't burn, for a while at least.
I could leave my lather for an hour and it wouldn't collapse!

Randy, You have got that right. I could go take a nap and come back and it will still be there...

I don't have lather collapse just face burn with artificially scented soaps.

I picked up a Herbian Cowboy boar bristle ($5+) to take out of town last week (figured, if anything happened to it I'd care less than damaging or losing either of my badgers). It was fine. Lathered up the L'Occitane very well. I was happy to be back home to my badgers though.

Ken

You gents make me worry about upgrading from my boar to a badger! I need to work on my lather though, it hardly lasts 5 minutes. It took me a while to figure out that I wasn't using enough water, as odd as that may sound.

I use a boars hair brush but by the sounds of it I still have a lot of work to do on building a good lather it dries up/disappears almost as fast as I apply it to my face.
I was thinking that in the future I want to get a custom badger from the gentleman here that makes them for $50, but I don't recall that members name. Also my whiskers are very tough so maybe a badger is not for me.