Thread: Criticised for my badger brush

Wanted to try the body shop's maca root cream so when Christmas shopping today I popped in with the wife.
The sales lady was quite pleasant and showed me to the cream and suggested I apply it with a brush advising that their brush would stand up to the task. "No thank you, I already have quite a nice brush"

Then "Is it badger?"

From there I was basically made to feel that I'd plucked a badger cub from it's mothers teat and skinned it alive.

Not one to take a verbal onslaught without retaliation my parting shots were regarding the murky ethical past of the body shop and the complete lack of any right to lambast or criticise since becoming an out and out corporate brand.

Other customers quite amused, me quite smug, wife apologetic and bought me the cream anyway.

Being that I have it now, I know it's not the right thread, is the cream any good?

Its a FANTASTIC cream in my opinion. Its my staple daily shaving cream!
Id have told the woman where to go. She is there to serve you not lecture you!
Well done sir on a mighty fine purchase.

I can't help feeling it will be an angry first shave. I normally use Ingram brand shave cream but maca was mentioned on here and even my wife had heard of it.
Quite a nice fragrance too.

How like Antony she must have felt, regretting the course her hasty words set in motion as she cried in rueful dismay:

Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.

I think you will quite like the cream.

James.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

How like Antony she must have felt, regretting the course her hasty words set in motion as she cried in rueful dismay:



I think you will quite like the cream.

James.

I can't like your post on my iPhone but I like it

I remain unashamed of my badger brush. I eat meat, my gloves and boots are leather etc etc

I should add I do not seek out confrontation and had she been a bit more subtle I may have just thought good on you for having principles. The shop was packed

I have several badger brushes and never felt any qualms about it - and I am a tree-hugging liberal left-wing academic who knows all the words to "kumbaya" and most of "We are the World"

James.

The world is full of born again something or others that want to feel superior. They need to be reminded that they are not, good on you. TBS got the Macca Root right though, very nice and you need very little for a shave. Trust me, their synthetic shave brush is a positive POS, you are not missing anything. Enjoy the Macca Root you have earned it.

Bob

My response, "I prefer to lather with hair from dead animals, but thank you for your opinions".

Might have thrown in a "the baby badgers offer the softest of hair with excellent heat retention".

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. TBS cream is fantastic, especially given the price & availability. Now, if they would only give it a nice scent.......

I would have said,"why no maam it's not badger at all. Once each year I go up north and club those baby seals to death and use the hair for my brushes. Would you like some sealskin for a coat maybe?"