Originally Posted by
crouton976
Yep. The VDH luxury set has a real badger brush, brush stand, apothecary mug and a puck of soap. You can find 'em for $25-$30. Might be a good addition to grab both sets for those of you who want a boar and badger brush on the cheap. Both of them do shed like crazy at first, but my badger hasn't shed a hair in I dunno how long, and both boar brushes are mellowed out a good bit.
I've still yet to play with the different VDH soaps... I have the luxury scented soap, but am curious to see how the deluxe, glycerine and select soaps work out (I have a puck of the glycerine already, just have yet to use it and also would bet the unscented luxury performs just fine, so no desire to try it as I like the smell of the scented). Oh, and for the ladies, they also have a shower+shave soap... so I guess that makes 6 soaps altogether?
It's funny how often I hear folks bash VDH, but given my results, I can't understand why... It's actually my go to stuff. I'm sure there are better products out there, like Martin de Candre or Mitchell's Wool Fat for soaps and Simpson and Kent for brushes (which I've yet to try any of these... just going off of reputation here), my VDH stuff just performs and works well for me.
I'd like to try many and many more, certainly, but I have satisfaction in knowing that I can go to my local drug store and grab what I need and it would do me a solid the rest of my days.