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I've been wet shaving since the 1960's and had a few brushes including decent badger ones like a Simpson's Duke which sits redundant.

My current brush is an Omega Boar Bristle No.49 cost £7.80 from Connaught. Good for soaps and creams and has some body,
Best of the lot.
On your recommendation I bought a red one of these from the Shaving Station last week. It cost me £8.50 with free p&p. I've been using it with Proraso green and despite being a novice I can whip up good lather with it.
Today was my fifth shave with it and I noticed it no longer smells.
And so another convert!
 
I don't know omega makes good low cost badger so why skip the natural superiority of the furry badger brush?

It all has to do with personal preference rather than "natural superiority" those words remind me of the times gone by for some reason :). Many shavers will try synthetic, badger, horse and boar brushes and a mixture of same such as boar/badger or horse/badger. For many there's no generalisation such as a superior brush. The superior brush is the one that works best for you. You will notice that the face feel and the way a brush performs is often unique to the user and many shavers will agonise, and spend a lot of money trying many brushes, endeavouring to find the perfect loft or the glue bump, or knot size or the bristle type, or the handle shape etc for them, to get the face feel and performance that feels great for them - and that may be a boar, horse, badger, synthetic or mixed knot. I prefer Boars over Badgers, because for me they are the best brush but for others that will be different.
 
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Funnily enough, I recently got a Proraso brush (by Omega; it's like a 10mm shorter 48). After an accelerated breaking in process (3 days in the fridge and strong rub against a bath towel for 8-10 mn each day), the bristle splitting happened and the brush became surprisingly soft. As for lathering, it performs as good as a basic synthetic brush; no doubt it will improve significantly with time.
 
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