Quote Originally Posted by newb View Post
The Vie-Long 13061 to me feels like a soft silver tip but with backbone. The Bestshave # 6 is not as soft as the Vie-Long, but it can whip up the hardest soaps with ease. I rarely ever use my silver tips or boar now. There's a reason Horse hair brushes were at one time the most popular. Hopefully more manufactures will start using horsehair again.
I read somewhere on the internet today that they stopped using horsehair because at the time they did not have a way to sterilize it for anthrax, which I guess was a concern at some time (?). I have good memories of the one I had, which I believe was purchased at a Crabtree and Evelyn in the late 1990s. I am going to have to give this Vie Long brush a try!