New to badger brushes. Need advice

[Chrisl]

I've graduated from my first brush, a Vulvix pure bristle scritchy to a Tweezerman pure badger. The Tweezerman was only $15 and I couldn't wait any longer for the B&B Essential (I'll be the first to admit I'm not as patient as I should be!). The Tweezerman is definitely softer than the pure bristle.

Here's my prob:

The Tweezerman just sucks up all the lather from my bowl that I've created for my face. Just hoards it all within it's bristles. Yes, I can work it off the brush, I mean work it off the brush onto my face, but I don't like it so far. It probably has to do with the pure bristle being more or less water repellent and the badger bristles getting wet.

I'm sure some will say (or think) "well, duh, that's the idea to WORK the lather out of the brush and onto your face". Even if I do this though, without physically squeezing all that great lather out with my fingers, most all of that great lather is rinsed right down the drain.

I like the softer bristles, but I don't like how the lather just seems to be absorbed during the lather making process into the bristles like a selfish something or other that doesn't really want to give up what I've created for myself.

Any thoughts?

[indykramer]

I had the same experience changing from a boar to a badger. What worked for me was too add more water. Not a lot just a little and it will explode with the stuff. Just keep it working it. Badger seems to be able to store more lather than the boar so when you load up the brush like you used too your actually not giving it enough water to mix with the soap and let it unload off the brush.

[SlyGI]

I can't really help you because I've never used a boar brush before. I have two badger brushes and I think another one that is synthetic. I just use more cream and more watter. But I like a really big fluffy lather on my face, I mean, Santa Clause Lather.

Plus, there are just so many out there to try, I kind of want to use up what I have so I can try something different.

BTW, does anyone know when the B&B brush is coming out?

[Chrisl]

I like Santa Claus later as well. Problem is, this pure badger brush just keeps most of the lather in between all the badger hairs. Just sucks it up.

This morning I added more water, the brush sucked up more lather. I started to draw all sides of this brush across the lip of my shave bowl in paint brush drawn across a paint can fashion to force as much of that hoarded lather out of the brush and back into my shave bowl. Is this how all badger brushes are????:bored:

At any rate, no Santa Claus lather here I can tell you. Even with a fairly vigorous scrubbing and pumping the lather loaded brush across my face, it leaves a quite unimpressive and pretty thin layer of lather on my face.

Can anyone else help here?

I'm using a good soap that I had fantastic luck with using my pure bristle brush: Mama Bear Rosemary Mint in a tub.

[Mr Mockett]

Strange. I have a Tweezerman, and I love it. I've never had problems with it "hoarding" lather. My guess is you may not be whipping it enough. It takes a couple minutes for me to build a good lather with my Mama Bear soaps (which I love) but I always get plenty of lather for 4 passes.

[Chrisl]

I'll try whipping the lather for longer. Maybe I do just have to pummel the lather out of the brush and into the bowl.

[biomesh]

I would suggest using a scrubbing motion first when applying lather to you face, then switching to a painting motion (for each pass). This should give you a thin layer of lather with the scrubbing motion, then the painting motion will give you a thicker layer of lather as it uses the lather that has worked it's way into the brush.