Target Find

While this post may not be as cool as some of the others, but I was glad to have found this brush so I thought I'd share.

Since begginning my wet shaving journey I've been looking around in my area for any stores that carry traditional shaving supplies. So far I haven't had much luck. I'm sure there might be a specialty store that may have some supplies, but I just haven't found it yet. Even the places I thought might have some stuff, have turned out to be dead ends.

The one place that I have found is Walgreens. They sell styptic and VDH brushes, soap, and a brush, bowl, and soap set, but thats it. Yesterday though I was at Target and thought I'd check out their shaving isle, and came across this neat little brush.

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Its made by a company called Shea Moisture, and is 100% badger hair. Which hopefully should be and imporvement over my VDH boar bristle. The handle is a little small for my liking but it seems like a nice little brush and was only $8.99. So I'm going to go try it out!

I've used this brush every day for over nearly two years and it works great! At first, the brush will be a little scratchy because of the way that the hair is cut to shape, but after a couple months the hairs will begin to split and feel even better. The handle is a little small compared to the VDH brush, but you'll get used to it in no time.

I love mine, about 2 years use.

I used that brush for awhile myself. I recently got an omega 49 boar brush on amazon for about the same price and honestly I like the omega better. That Shea brush is pretty good though. Better than the one in the AoS starter kit.

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Originally Posted by red96ta

I've used this brush every day for over nearly two years and it works great! At first, the brush will be a little scratchy because of the way that the hair is cut to shape, but after a couple months the hairs will begin to split and feel even better. The handle is a little small compared to the VDH brush, but you'll get used to it in no time.

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Thats awesome, I'm glad to hear others have tried the brush and liked it. I definitely know what you mean, I had the same experience. I soaked mine in hot-ish water for about ten minutes the night I bought it, in the hopes that it would be a bit softer for my shave this morning. Which it actually was, it was definitely not as scratchy as when I first bought it.

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Originally Posted by Cavere

I used that brush for awhile myself. I recently got an omega 49 boar brush on amazon for about the same price and honestly I like the omega better. That Shea brush is pretty good though. Better than the one in the AoS starter kit.

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Well, I found that the Shea brush produced a superior lather to my VDH boar bristle, but I got significantly less lather out of it. This was most likely due in part to me not loading the brush with enough soap. I believe that since the VDH's bristles are a bit firmer it picks up the soap a little easier, and therefore I will need to spend a little more time loading my Shea brush than I normally do with my VDH. Although thats just a hypothesis. So far I really like my Shea brush, although I do miss the larger handle and stiffer bristles of the VDH, but as Red said, it will just take some getting used too, inasmuch as a little expirementation.

I received one of these as a gift from my son. He is a broke student so I knew he didn't spend much! I am very happy with it!

Tim

Gentlemen,
I have had one of these Shea Butter shave brushes for a number of years and find it a bargain.

I have a few nice brushes but I still find myself pulling this one out occasionally. I honestly think it's a really good brush just not as dense as I normally prefer. But hey, at <$10 what more could you want?

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Originally Posted by ats200

I have a few nice brushes but I still find myself pulling this one out occasionally. I honestly think it's a really good brush just not as dense as I normally prefer. But hey, at <$10 what more could you want?

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Yea that's pretty much how I feel, I just find that the bristle in the center are significantly stuttered than the outer ones and as a result don't conform to my face that well. Idk its a little weird.

for that price you can't beat it...I mean yeah it will be a bit scratchy at first but you could always grab a 2 dollar puck of williams and just run the brush through 50 or so test lathers to break it in without having to hit your face with it first :)