Badger vs. Boar Wet Shave Brush 

I use Boar and Horsehair brushes most of the time. I have one badger and many synthetic. But boar is my favorite. I use an Omega 1098 mostly, and my dads Marvy #5.

Love the boar. I've tried all 4 major fibers and a quality boar has my favorite face feel, outdoing my D01 Custom Shavemac which I spent a lot more on. It's nice to hear an objective comparison between the types. A lot of people simply equate softer with better without realizing that a soft brush is a preference.

Honestly, I feel that with any brush, it all depends on the ratio of water to soap/ cream when u whip up the lather. Rest is all about making mistakes in the ratio and correcting yourself in getting a better, creamier lather with any sort of brush. It's the experience that matters in the end. There's nothing superior or inferior with the brushes.

I like the backbone of a boar brush, and once broken in the tops are as soft as a badger. I break mine in by rubbing them on a bristle hair brush. Can break them in within a day instead of months of use.

I really like this video, because overall, I have had good experiences with boar brushes.

I prefer hard soaps so I usually go for my boar brushes more often than others, but I do enjoy my silvertip from time to time with a good cream.

My first brush was an Omega boar brush. Never had any irritation or in-grown hairs. It was only when i decided to try silver tip badger that i started getting little zits and in-grown hairs along the jawline. I tried scrubbing, I tried light pressure but the results were never that great. Now I'm switching back to boar. Guess it all depends on your skin and what works best with it...

The barbers I know use Omega boar brushes imported from Italy. I think they like them for their durability and moderate price.

I have a Spanish horse hair brush that I really like. Would like to try a brush made of polar bear fur. It is hollow so it should hold water well.

Very honest presentation👍 I have all the main types of brushes and I still prefer the boar brushes (Omega), followed by syntetics (with max rigidity/backbone) than badgers.

Boar hair brush use and ingrown hair issues is a great point. I will consider a boat brush in my future purchases.

My favorite is a boar brush , 2nd horse , 3 synthetic .

Great tips Matt, as for me yes shaving at night at taking time is a great way to unwind.

I have about 3 synthetic brushes and I have a cheap Van Der Hagen badger brush. I’m sure that more expensive badger brushes are much better, but I like my synthetics much better than my badger lol. Never had a boar brush!

Thanks for the video! Very useful!! I am new at wet shaving world and one of my concerns is, how ethical are animal hair based brushes? Any knowledge on that matter?

I use boar for soaps and badger for creams

I love the perfecto badger because it's under 20$ and it works great!

hi, great video thank you. is there a difference between boar brushes and how do you tell the difference in the quality of the boar brushes.

Always great advice - thanks Matt.

Great Video very nice new things to know i was wondering why my Boar Brush isnt doing lather after 1st 2nd pass and my Badger do 3 passes easy with 1 load :) very Useful video :)

thank you! this was an extremely helpful :)

A badger brush from 40's.😲 I think the lifespan of these brushs, are about 10 to 15 years. Good to know

Matt PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE which is that vintage beauty? I meaning on brus that you said that is your personal.

the play in the back of your shirt looks like its torn open

Really helpful many thanks!

Great Vid. Thanks

who made it?

Atleast they don't Have Porkipine hair😂😃

It took me a while to find the ideal shaving brush, at least for me. It isn't badger. It isn't boar, and it isn't synthetic either. Its horse! Back at the turn of the century many shave brushes were horse. These brushes are sort of between badger and boar. A bit stiffer than badger. Yet they hold water more like a badger brush. Horse hair brushes fell out of favor because of an anthrax epidemic I believe in the 1920s. The rest is history. These days horses are vaccinated against anthrax.

I bought a boar brush some times ago and now the hairs of the brush are not straight anymore. There are all distorted like twisted unlike my other brushes made from badger hairs... Does somebody else have the same problem?

But the question remains, what would James Bond use?

Please do one on horse hair as well. :)

boar best for me

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Hate to think of badgers being killed to make a shaving brush of all things.

The follicle is a gland around the root of the hair. Brushes lift the hair, NOT the follicle. If you want to make a video with a comparison please be accurate with what you are saying or you lose credibility.

the right brush is the cheapest brush