boar brush

**spazola** · 02-05-2009, 04:23 AM

I do not see many posts about boar hair brushes. So I felt a need to do some boar boasting. Here is one of my favorite brushes. I think that it might be the offspring of a union between a whisk broom and pot scrubber, it’s scrubtastic.

For me building lather on my face with a scrubby brush is half of the fun. I use nice brushes also, but wanted to stand up and be an advocate for the lonesome boar brush.

Viva el porky

Charlie

**JimR** · 02-05-2009, 04:38 AM

Hear Hear! The Boar is a grand old brush, and capable of fantastic lathers. I use boar almost exclusively; badger is either too oft (ugh--lathering with wet tissue paper) or too scratchy (no wire brushes!!!). A good boar brush is the perfect compromise between gentle smoothness and stiff scrubbiness.

All Hail the boar!

**Shavelle** · 02-05-2009, 05:20 AM

i'm satisfried with minezez. for 4 bux ya can't beat it

**alabamalawyer** · 02-05-2009, 10:09 PM

While I generally prefer my badger brushes, one of the best values I have is the $10 Omega boar brush. It is a great brush that does a very good job. Given it performance/price ratio, it is an outstanding value.

**kahunamoose** · 02-11-2009, 05:42 AM

Omega boars are wonderful. Well. I should not talk in plurals, as I only have one. But I like them so much that I am buying more.

**Alraz** · 03-14-2009, 06:55 PM

I recently picked up a Van der Hagen boar brush, one of the cheapest brushes on the market. I must say that I am fairly impressed with its ability of making good quality lather, especially when used with harder soaps. I only wished it were a bit softer and that held a bit more lather in it. It would be the perfect brush, at least in my book.

Al raz.

**TomBulls** · 03-26-2009, 07:15 AM

Stick with the VDH boar bristle brush and it will soften up, and become much more smooth, pliable, and much less prickly. After many months of my VDH brush it has become wonderfully smooth, pliable, and continues to work up a thick and heavy lather.

-Thomas

**omegapd** · 03-26-2009, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by TomBulls

Stick with the VDH boar bristle brush and it will soften up, and become much more smooth, pliable, and much less prickly. After many months of my VDH brush it has become wonderfully smooth, pliable, and continues to work up a thick and heavy lather.

-Thomas

Agreed. My green handled (cheaper version) VDH has become my favorite brush. In fact, I have two of the more expensive VDH brushes with the tan handle (think they named it Deluxe) and they lose more hair and didn't soften up as nice as the green handled one.

EW

**rshaw** · 03-26-2009, 02:30 PM

I completely agree with everyone! I had my first pig brush (an Omega) experience last night and it was much better than I expected. I tired it with some Mama Bear's soap and it produced a very nice lather. While it didn't appear that the brush produced as much lather as my big Shavemac, I was quite surprised when I lathered up my face. I'm starting to think that big 26mm silvertip knot just fills up more of the bowl so it looks like more lather than there actually is, because the ole boar brush made plenty of lather for two passes and then some. Gotta love the classics!

**Disburden** · 04-15-2009, 01:57 PM

I don't know why someone would pay 200$ for a brush made of badger when the Boar does just as good of a job.

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