Thread: Something wrong with your sniffer?

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

So I want all of you to go to your brushes and sniff them and tell me what you discover.

No !!!

I know that even my 2 YO Shavemac Slivertip will still smell like wet dog if I bury my nose in it...

I guess I rinse my brushes too good also

The twenty year old Simpson's Chubby smells very faintly of lavender. I used soaps in the past, first Williams then higher end soaps. Now I use Trufitt and Hill Ultimate Comfort Shave Cream, unscented.

I *thought* I was rinsing the brush out enough, but maybe not...

My daily brush, a Tweezerman badger is more or less scent free, but I usually only use Mama Bear Unscented or Peppermint soaps at the moment. The old piece of crappo Vulfix pure bristle, the first brush I ever bought, which I blew the dust off recently to use on my first Tabac cream test, still smells of Tabac quite noticeably more than two weeks later.

Chris L

I rinse very well and also have really soft water. Don't disregard water softness as a suspect in the mystery. Harder water won't rinse the soap away nearly as well as soft water.

Just a theory!

Originally Posted by Ookla

I rinse very well and also have really soft water. Don't disregard water softness as a suspect in the mystery. Harder water won't rinse the soap away nearly as well as soft water.

Just a theory!

That could be; I have extremely hard water.

Good to see you back on the board, Ookla. A bit of useless trivia: Did you know the creators of Thundar chose Ookla from a phonetic pronunciation of UCLA?

Chris L

My brushes smell of the juniper in my L'Occitane soap, even when well rinsed and shaken out. Tucson has extremely hard water, so that could be a factor. I like the smell of clean scented badger! I can smell my hones when they are wet, too, but have a very sensitive nose and no longer smoke.