Well I'm staying at my girlfriends house tonight and I keep a boar brush and cheapy soap I got from CVS for about 10 bucks here. I only used the brush once on the cheap soap and wasn't to happy with it so I brought my shaving supplies from home. I had the idea to give the boar brush another go on my good soap rather than using my pure badger brush. The results were like night and day. The soap lathered like it never has. I was having trouble getting proper lather from my pure badger brush. I think I'll be using boar from now on. Has anyone else had this revelation?? I was feeling so good about my lather I decided to give a 3 pass shave a go. After 7 months my face is finally bbs without one nick.