Mixed Bristle Brushes

Hi!

I have tested several "mixed" brushes, and the only one which I found confortable was the Semogue Mistura Boar&Badger 2013 LE:



Unfortunately discontinued... It is a really good brush: feels in face like a good boar but with the density&latherability of a good two bands badger one.

I personally won't recommend Vie&Long "inventions": horse&badger brushes are filled with really low quality hair and in consecuence they are generally fluffy&floppy& really scritchy things.... I tested as well a mixed Boar&horse Vie&Long and was even worse, because it stangles like in a nightmare...

And about 100% hair horse brushes, I had problems with every Vie&Long brush I owned: loosing hairs, scritching, entangling, too firmness... If you like that kind of hair I would strongly recommend you latest brushes that Zenith has launched recently, developed with the help of SCNH Spanish forum users:

https://www.yourshaving.com/es/10-b...ante-zenith_shaving_brushes/tipo_pelo-caballo

Really good brushes with a big&dense 27 mm. knot (but not too much, they have the right size for face lathering) and no entangling&scritching issues, best horse brushes ever produced IMHO in two versions: regular 50/50 mane&tail hair with a bit of scritch and backbone (ideal of hard soaps) and "extrasoft" with a more treated hair, which means less backbone and really soft tips (good for shaving creams&sensitive skin).

Regards
 
I do not understand why they are mixing the hair at all. What is it getting? Cista nonsense ..... she buys a clean hair that you like .... although I did not try the mix and I will not. Pig hairs and badger are incompatible !??
 
I have few mixed bristle brushes. 404 and Omega midget mix are good, Vie-Long horse and badgers mix is useless keep tangling. Also on top of these many years ago I bought Artamis mix badger brushes big and a small one, they have mixed grades of badger knot.
 
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