Parker Pure Badger Shaving Brush with Black & Chrome Handle + Stand | 22mm Kn...

UPDATE: After nearly 4 months of use, this brush has continued to impress me. The bloom continued to open up and is as wide and pretty as any Simpson or Rooney brush I've seen, without being floppy in use. Shedding stopped completely within the first week of use, outside of a random hair here and there (maybe one a week). The tips have continued to soften as they have split and are completely scratch-free. I have also experimented with some harder soaps like Arko Stick , Tabac , and Truefitt and Hill . These types of soap take awhile for the brush to charge (pick up enough product) but lather just as well as creams once properly charged. Letting some warm water sit on top of the soap to soften a thin layer helps drastically, as does holding the brush by the base of the knot to add a bit more backbone. In terms of build quality, this brush has continued to hold up extremely well. The black resin handle has stayed mainly scratch free, other than a few small scratches from traveling in my luggage alongside a DE razor (they go in seperate compartments now). A bit of acetone on a cloth smoothed these scrathes over almost completely. I can't say enough about this brush and would reccomend it to almost anyone as their second brush. Everyone's first brush should be something cheap enough that they won't be disapointed if they give up wet shaving early on, but can still be used for travel if they upgrade later on. Four months later, still an exuberant 5 STARS! END UPDATE: Coming from a basic board brush ( Shaving Factory (XS) Boar Brush ), this Parker is a huge step up. Handle size and weight are both excellent, fitting my average size hand perfectly with a confidence inspiring heft. The resin used for the black portion of the handle also feels firm and does not seem scratch-prone like softer/cheaper plastics. The Parker logo did start to wear during just the first lather, but a bit of rubbing alcohol on a wash cloth took it off completely and gave the brush a clean logo free look. The hair of this brush is extremely soft. The tips are untrimmed and have a natural white tip. Based on Badger & Blade grading, this brush seems MUCH closer to a "Best" rating than the lower "Pure" rating it is marketed under. You won't find a "Best" brush on Amazon for less than $45, and you won't find a "Best" with a handle as nice as this Parker for less than $60. The Parker may seem floppy to those, like me, coming from stiff inexpensive boar brushes. The knot is large, fairly dense, and blooms nicely right out of the packaging. After the first night of break-in the bloom opened up maybe another 5%, but I don't expect much more. The brush is soft on the face, not prickly at all, but does lose its shape a bit and could possibly use a bit more backbone (if we're being picky). I'm a cream guy more than a soap guy, and this thing demolishes creams. It whipped Proraso Cream into a fluffy whipped cream like lather that my boar never could approach, and did so in record time. I usually lathered for 30-45 seconds or more with the boar, but I can get a far superior lather in 15-30 seconds with the Parker. It can do just as well with soft soaps, like Proraso Shaving Soap , but hard soaps (especially Tallow based) seem to require a bit more effort. I don't have a shave stick on hand and I've never face-lathered, so I can't comment directly on those. I've only lathered with the parker twice so far... once during the break-in process and once while shaving this morning. The brush lost 3-4 hairs during the first break-in lather, and another 2 during this morning's shave. Both could have been loose to begin with. I won't make a judgment one way or the other on shedding for at least a week or two, though my Shaving Factory XS Boar was still shedding 1-2 hairs per shave after 3 weeks of use. Also, "badger funk" was minimal but present out of the box, but eliminated by the overnight break-in process. By contrast, my boar took 3 nights of break-in just to minimize the funk and another 2 weeks of use to eliminate it (though even then still present with a deep close whiff). The one minor low-point of this brush was the free included stand. It's a universal stand and not custom-made to match this brush. It's tall enough but not really deep enough to let the brush dry with a full, unhindered, bloom. The weight of the handle does, however, lend to a solution. By tilting the handle towards the back of the stand it settles at a roughly 30 degree angle from vertical, allowing the brush to dry in full bloom. I likely won't use this stand for long as I have a chrome brush/razor stand on the way, but it is a nice bonus and is perfectly useful with this brush using the above positioning. Overall, I don't think you'll do much better than this brush for around $30. You'll have to spend close to $45 to match it in knot quality and around $60 to match it in overall quality. This is indeed an excellent value for those looking to move from a boar to a badger inexpensively, especially those who mainly use creams. A well earned 5 stars and excellent value.

Se ve es de calidad, el pelo se nota no es sintetico ya que tiene levemente un olorcito como a "chivo" por decir, pero imagino se le ira quitando. El soporte ayuda a se escurra rapido y seque bien. Recomendada.

Je recommande ce blaireau, monte bien la mousse et est très doux pendant l'usage. Ne perd pas ses poils

I brought this for my partner and he is very happy with the brush. He finds it much better than his old cheap one and the shaving cream lathers much better. Don't hesitate to buy due to the price. Go for it and buy it you won't regret it.

At $49, on the low-ish end of badger brushes, this is a pretty decent shaving brush. I must first confess that one of the reasons I like this new shaving brush is how much better it is than my previous (first) badger brush. This brush is seriously larger and, being about 50% bigger both in height and width (and I'm talking just about the badger hair part here), is able to whip up and hold a substantially greater amount of shaving foam. You easily have enough in one load to do two or three passes. The handle is not very long, at 47mm and the whole unit weighs in at 115g, a bit more than ¼ lb. So it has a nice heft to it. One reason I decided it was time to upgrade was that my inexpensive Frank brush, also made of pure badger, has been endlessly shedding hairs from the first day I got it and still did up to now. I've had it for over a year so it's not just "settling in". This Parker brush has dropped no hairs at all so far so that's a bonus; it tells me it was better made than the other, even if it was a bit more than double the cost. Well worth it on these points alone. Still, this isn't the most expensive brush or best badger hair selection; there's a couple of grades of badger to go up. But at that point you're looking at near $100 to well above $300 and more. I'm just shaving, not taking a luxury vacation, so I'll keep with this brush for the time being. It looks good, holds lots of foam and feels right in my medium sized hand; someone with larger hands may find it too small though. The package was a nice looking fancy box and the brush came with a brush stand too. I'm not too impressed with that. It's plastic, a bit cheap looking, and the opening isn't really big enough for this wider knot brush. My smaller brush fits in perfectly though. So that's a meh on the stand. But the brush itself is till worth the money of the whole thing, although I wouldn't have argued if they knocked $6 off and kept the plastic stand.