The Bigspendurs Weekly Shaving Brainbuster #4
Good morning shaving fiends.
This weeks brainbuster will require a true/false answer.
We all enjoy using our premium badger hair shave brushes though some like their boar brushes too. Of course many other critters have been used over the years. Horse was used in the late 19th and very early 20th century until anthrax concerns caused a stop to that practice and people have experimented with human hair too.
Probably the wildest experiment was in the mid 19th century when Charles Bissonet in France invented a process for using duck down to make a shaving brush. Those that are familiar with the way cowboy hats made of beaver hair are made know how they start out as a loose clump of hair which through wetting and heating and chemical application the hair compacts down to a solid material which is fashioned into a hat. Well this is the general idea and he had set up a factory to produce these brushes when a fire broke out before he could begin production and it wiped him out. He never did recover and died a pauper.
So the question is, is this a lot of hooey the delusions of a straight user who has honed one too many razors or is it the gospel truth.
Check back on Wednesday for the amazing answer.
