Hi Blackmass,
Just a couple of questions to help you, hopefully.
Why do you want scrub and backbone?
What are you looking for, mass produced eg Muhle, Edwin Jagger Simpsons or something made just for you?
Firstly Badger brushes aren't scrubbing brushes and achieve a better lather because they hold more water and heat in the natural hairs this helps in the building of the lather. You then don't scrub the lather in to your face, rather you apply and build it by painting it on. Believe me the lather will build rapidly to a thick luscious slick lather. Depending on the soap of course. I wouldn't be looking at anything but Silvertip and I'm sure when you get a good one you will never regret it. Also rather than following the herd I'd want to have one made from a maker like Mervyn Cadman. Have a look on his website. Give him a ring and he will talk you through the process of knot types and their characteristics and the various shapes and sizes. Believe me, he is a really lovely bloke with tons of patience and he want to make you happy with your purchase. No airs and graces. A handmade Cadman in 26mm Silvertip would come in around the £70 mark so mid budget too.
Nothing wrong with mass produced brushes of course but the disadvantage is that by ordering online you just don't get exactly what you want and it is a bit of a leap in the dark.
Anyway. Hope that helps in some small way.
Cheers
Wayne.
Phoenix & Beau 'Spitfire', Saponificio Varesino 'Tundra Artica', OSP and Whickhams...basically very soap I own.Which soaps do you struggle with at the moment?
Go back to cream. I use cream 95% of the time because I find I make a noticeably better, more cushioning lather with cream than with soap. Having said that, you might want to try a shaving soap stick. I find that I can make a very good lather with a stick by rubbing it on my wet face and lathering on my face; I've used this method with a cake of shaving soap too and I make a better lather than I do when I load my brush directly from the cake. Cream, however, remains my favourite and life's too short to shave with less than optimal lather.Phoenix & Beau 'Spitfire', Saponificio Varesino 'Tundra Artica', OSP and Whickhams...basically very soap I own.
Wow! they aren't difficult soaps to lather, no offence meant in any way. Do you bloom them? By that i mean place a small amount of warm water on the puck of soap and let it sit there whilst you shower or whatever. this achieves two things. 1st it softens the top of the soap prior to loading the brush. 2nd it provides a lovely slick water to use on your face to help glide and soften the whiskers.
Once bloomed then you need to load the brush for a minute or so, get plenty on the brush then transfer to the bowl and lather it adding more water half a teaspoon at a time until you get a thick full lather that is glossy, thick and without bubbles. As you are using a synthetic brush it doesn't hold the water a badger or boar does so a little more water in the bowl will help too. Don't be afraid to work the lather for a good two minutes or more. The more you swirl it the better the result. Try it mate. It may just help. Just practice lather a couple of times. It only uses tuppenceworth of soap.
Wayne.
I have one on my watch listYou could do an awful lot worse than one of these for £40.00
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Frank-Sha...166902?hash=item418babcef6:g:c5kAAOSwnGJWTopa
Load it like you hate it!Ok. That looks OK. I think you aren't loading enough soap on your brush then. That is probably it and if it is dissipating probably too much water and too thin. When I load my brush I have enough for about 6 passes
That's a lovely lather you've got there, you are not doing too much wrong, as a matter of interest what if any pre shave product do you use?
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