Wet shaving is a luxury, but only when it is done properly. Applying shaving cream by hand before a shave mats the whiskers or raises them unevenly. Shaving brushes on the other hand have been used for centuries to soften and lift the beard so the razor does not need to be pressed to the skin in order to provide a close shave.
In all the years that shaving brushes have been in use, no material has ever been found that equals the badger bristle brush. Badger bristles generate a rich, warm lather and bring the right amount of water to the face to enable a close and comfortable shave with less razor skipping and dragging.
New on the ASW store this week are our best quality badger bristle wet shaving brushes, with your choice of handles made from genuine ox horn or stag’s antler. They make a wonderful gift, especially to yourself.
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Badger brushes are softer and have more springiness (like Sable brushes in art) but it's a question as to where all those badger hairs are coming from. Hog's hair brushes are more common, cheaper and do a great job.
Both end up pasting the beard to the skin with soap; there's no magic to badger brushes in that respect, it's about how hot the water is and whipping up a good lather. My brother has been a traditional barber for 40 years and is pretty certain about that.
There is always someone with a PC take on nearly any topic under the sun, these days! Badgers are culled in Britain (maybe in other places too), to prevent the spread of TB in cattle. However, I am glad that the recently mooted mass extermination has not been adopted. Badger bristle is much softer than hog bristle and I have had the same badger shaving brush since around 1980; so I do not regard my preference as likely to result in extinction of Mr Brock.
Maybe that's right for a professional's technique and vantage point, but for a self-shave hog's hair is not the better experience than badger best, or course there's always super or silvertip.
It's not a PC take NJS it's a legitimate one. Badger culling is not common practice in Britain, a major cull is still being considered at the moment and is under scrutiny since the matter of a badger cull controlling TB is still unproven. The small numbers killed under normal circumstances wouldn't provide for a badger brush industry.
I'm not any kind of animal rights activist, but the question can be legitimately asked, and not swept aside just because you like badger brushes, in the past people had a similar attitude regarding ivory-handled objects.We need to think about the things we own and use rather than ignoring inconvenient questions.
I think its because the question from where is not a mystery, its mostly answered China.
See, eg., Kent's explanation one among many others: http://www.iandjccorp.com/badgerhair.htm
So should one surmise the point sought to be made is not so much to really ask the question, but that the common answer is a bad thing?
Well, what about hogs' rights to an undisturbed existence? i don't hear much about that?
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