Thread: Lather-eating boar brush

I recently bought a big boar brush (omega 48) but i have a few scores to settle with it . You see, the thing likes to eat my lather straight out of my shaving mug. I leave it and my soap (D.R.Harris) soaking during my shower. When I lather up in my cup, it makes lather all nice and amiable, but when I come back from stropping my razor, approximately a half of my lather has mysteriously disappeared and the brush is looking too smug for its own good. It only gets worse with time. Adding water and whipping lather like a man possessed further breaks the lather down until I have to dip to the soap again.

Do I have a possessed vampire brush or what is going on? I have no trouble keeping the lather with my synthetic body shop brush.

My boar brush needed a dozen lathers and a dip in near boiling water to break it in and make good lather. I recommend some elbow grease.

It's true. It is a well documented fact that boar brushes are much more stubborn than their badger counterparts and take much much longer to break in. That being said, once they are broken in, I love a good boar brush

Try hair conditioner. At one time I used to shave with conditioner and my boar brush is softer and makes a great lather now.

So this is a tendency of those boars not yet broken in?

I have used it maybe 10-20 times and I can see the hairs have already split at the ends (maybe, 6-8mm), but how far they usually split on a well broken boar?

Could it be that you're using too much water when you make the lather? I know that if I personally have a lather that vanishes very quickly, the first thing I'd do would be rinse it all away and try it again with almost no water, adding more until I reach the perfect lather point. The fact that adding water and whipping again makes it vanish even worse could suggest that there's too much water to begin with, and that the extra water is just making it worse.
My money's on too much water, personally, but I have no experience with boar brushes, preferring a nice badger brush myself, so it could still be the brush, I just have nothing to back that up with, whereas I DO have a bit of experience with the vanishing lather as a result of too much water.