Thread: Brushes cheep is good

The first brush i bought was a 2 dollar brush off of amazon, it has synthetic bristles with a wood handle and i have never lost a hair it latgers up really well using less soap than my subsequent high dollar badger brushes has good backbone and after a bit of use is quite comfortable on the face. I find myself going back useing and enjoying my cheepy 2dollar brush more than the others. Lucky cheep brush? Unlucky expensive brushes? In any case im glad i bought that cheep brush and would have to say dont be afraid to try one. Heck its only 2dollars anyway.

I have brushes all over the cheap scale. My favourite is sporting a relatively inexpensive Chinese knot. It has lathered well beyond my mid range knots and cheaper Chinese knots. I think sometimes you just get lucky. I have quite a few mid range and elcheapo brushes. I have never sprung for a really expensive knot. All in good time I suppose.

Most of my using brushes are cheapies. So are my soaps and creams. Doesn't make me special just fits the budget. Those items that aren't are from trades gone well.
~Richard

Most expensive brush I have is a giant Razoroc synthetic. I think it cost $30. Bought it because it was huge and RED. Really stands out on the bathroom counter. Ticks my wife off every time she sees it. ;=)

As a matter of fact, of the 10 brushes I own, only one is a badger and it was part of a kit with my first new straight razor purchase. The rest are synths or boar. They all work very well for me, including the $2 Wilkinson brush I picked up at a drug store 25 years ago.

Yup, you can't buy yourself a hugely better shave by throwing money at it. I could have saved a lot of money by just sticking with my 10 dollar Omega boar brushes.

Bob

Ive spent over 200 on a quality brush and as little as 12 bucks on cheep brushes. There is a difference in the quality of a good expensive brush. But in the end, i could have bought 20 decent brushes for the price of my top of the line brush. Was it worth it? Maybe, but i just had to have one of the best. I enjoy all my brushes and have been using the synthetics a lot lately. Its fun the use different brushes.

Synthetics........a Yaqi Monster beside a Yaqi Sagrada Familia

There is a lathering video out there showing a guy using a brush that size!

I don’t care how cheap the soap is, you’re gonna use a lot of it unless you do a group shave.

For over 50 years I used whatever inexpensive synthetic that I found in my local drug store until I discovered the forums, and for the past five to six years have tried most of the expensive badger brushes. Large knots with a nice backbone and very soft tips feel luxurious, but I can whip up just as good of a lather with my old cheap synthetics. Lately, I've had fun with boar brushes, which can be had at a fraction of the cost of a quality badger brush. Like many things, increased cost doesn't increase function significantly. I purchased my car new in 1996, and it gets me back and forth to work just as well as a new luxury car, even better since there are no electronic gizmos that I have to remember how to program, just push a knob and turn a button.