A Brush with Greatness
July 2, 2009 by James
Filed under Facial Hair
Murdock explain the benefits and the subtleties of the badger hair shaving brush.
If soap is your shaving lubricant of choice, then a brush is crucial for ensuring proper application. The traditional shaving brush has been around for centuries, with a design that has remained classically consistent; long bristles and a smooth handle that can be held between thumb and forefinger.
The most important part of the brush is the bristles, with the finest brushes containing badger hair, used because its ability to hold significant amounts of water which can be mixed effectively with shaving soap to create the perfect, rich and luxurious lather. Thicker and more emollient lather translates to less razor skipping and dragging; a closer and cleaner shave. The brush will also act as an exfoliator, removing dirt and dead skin and reducing blemishes. The final benefit is the bristles ability to lift hairs and stubble up off the skin, leaving them softer and more easily removed.
Here's a quick summary of the four types of bandger hair shaving brush:
Pure badger hair brushes use the most common hair of the badger. The hair is coarser than the more expensive types, due to its larger shaft, but it is still excellent at retaining water and providing an impressive lather. Darker in colour due to the natural markings of the animal.
Best badger brushes are made with finer hairs, which are of longer length and lighter colour. A best badger hair brush is more densely filled with hair than the pure badger hair brush, and will produce a correspondingly superior lather.
Super badger hair brushes use hair that has been graded and selected to provide a superior performance to best badger hair. It has a softer feel on the skin and is excellent for lifting and preparing dry beard hair.
Silvertip badger is the rarest grade. The shafts and tips on these hairs are of the finest quality, and are extremely soft on the skin. These brushes create an excellent we lather so are perfect for more sensitive skin types.
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Check out what others are saying about this post...[...] Unsurprisingly a lot of females are unfamiliar with the intricacies and subtleties of male wet shaving. That’s okay – to be honest, we’d be a bit freaked out if you could recite the various parts of a badger’s anatomy that different shaving brushes take their hair from. (For more on badger hair brushes, read this.) [...]