Or you could get a synth with sufficient backbone and avoid soaking altogether; and get consistently good lathers when you've worked out your technique.
Well played sir, came right up to the net on that one, didn't you! Scotshave makes an excellent point. One of the
benefits of a synth brush is that you
don't have to soak it, just run it under some water, and your ready to load your
brush. In point of fact, I use a synth brush when I do a single pass shave before I go to work.
The other benefit of synth is that, unless you live in an
extremely humid environment, it will dry faster, and you can
basically use it every day. That is why they are so popular as ‘travel' brushes.
Now, when I use my synth, I use it to bowl lather a soft tube cream. So I don't have the experience with a hard soap
that the gentleman from Edinburgh has, but as he alluded to, if you get one with a sufficient backbone, and I would
presume a decent knot diameter, I don't know why it wouldn't work.
Having said that, I still feel for a multi pass shave the badger still retains heat in a superior manor. However
if you use the synth in conjunction with a warm scuttle, it may work just the same.
What say you, Scotshave ?