Thread: my brush smells like.... badger!

Hi there. used my C&E brush yesterday to lather up some mama bears orange orange soap (lovely!) and was really put off by the stench of the brush.

is it usual for badger brushes, when wet, to smell like an entire wet badger? is there anything i can do to stop it? how long does it last?

Would be fine, but the smell interfered with my enjoymend of the orange!

Tink (letting the damned smelly thing dry near a window)

I have no idea what a badger smells like. But all my badger brushes(4), barring one(so 3 of them ), have smelled of ''something'' the first one or two times I used them. Then after that it faded away.

How long have you had it?

since last weekend, but yesterday was the first time i've used it.

its a kind of wet dog smell

Then my guess is that it will pass away within the next few times used.

It should smell as the hair comes from an animal. When I first got mine, I worked some shampoo into it, rinsed, and repeated and it quit smelling after that. If you don't go through the trouble to get rid of the smell, it will eventually go away as the soap or cream you use will also wash it out.

Aint it sweet?????

Shampoo followed by conditioner helps, but a quick dip in the sink with a little 20 Mule Team Borax from the laundry room really helped mine......

I think somebody in another thread described the smell as "weasal butt", mild soap or borax will clean it.

The Badger used for mine must have been a juvenile at heart-because Johnson's Baby Shampoo took the stink out of my brush.

like your hair it could use a shampoo and a complete drying it shouldnt smell after that unless you use badger scented shampoo
as the others have said borax cleans them well also i think one brand of brush recommends using that

Not to worry... it will fade soon enough, usually a weeks worth of shaves will do it, slightly longer if you baby the brush. You have not lived until you've had to..... uhmmmm.... season a brand new Omega boars hair brush. For some reason, the last one I purchased had the distinct odor as if the hair had surrounded the "exhaust vent" of said boar. Needless to say, it was a stomach turning scent and it was long lived too... I stuck with it and eventually it went away. I could have used some dog shampoo I suppose, but brushes are sterilized so they are safe, though not de-scented. In comparison to that boars brush, a rank Badger brush is durn near fresh air!

Most of us wetshavers who succumb to brush acquisition disorder actually develop an appreciation for that "wet dog scent".

Regards

Kaptain " I love the smell of a wet badger in the morning" Zero