Recently my brother asked me, what kind of present I would like for birthday. I told him, that there is until now no shaving brush with horsehair within my collection and therefore such shaving brush would be a good choice. I gave him some further advices about where to buy and what kind of brushes I like and so on.
Ok, it turned out that his present for me was an Epsilon Horsehair brush with black handle, 26mm knot and a 50mm bulb shaped brown horsehair loft. You can find it in the Gifts&Care shop if you search for this reference number: GC12900/4
I have already seen, that quite a lot people trying to resell this brush second hand after a few uses within the trade sections of several wetshaving forums.
Frankly speaking, I was really surprised because this beast is lightyears different from every other brush that I've used until now. Before I will make my final conclusion about this brush, I would like hearing opinions from other owners/users about those brushes.
Thanks a lot in advance for your personal comments and opinions.
Batou
Hi!
I'm one of the guys whose after buying Vielong Horse brushes decided to re-sell them quickly... And believe me, I owned MANY both with brown and white hair, 50/50 and 30/70 mane tail mix, etc. Simply IMHO they are not good for facelathering, at least in the same way than with other kind of brushes: they have many problems with entangling issues, loosing hairs, too pricky, etc.
If you want a really good horse brush I personally recommend you to opt for the new Zenith horse brushes released recently by/thanks to yourshaving shop:
https://www.yourshaving.com/en/10-shaving-brushes#/manufacturer-zenith_shaving_brushes/hair-horse
They were developed in colaboration with SCNH spanish forum and they are simply wonderful: no entangling issues, latherer beasts with dense 27 knots that does'nt feel too big in face.
You can choose between regular 50/50 tail (good backbone, a bit of scritch in tips, excellent for soaps) or extrasoft (less backbone, supersoft tips, a bit foam hunger and best for creams, really similar to a good silvertip badger).
Regards
Had the same Epsilon brush but in butterscotch. Soft when dry. Prickly when wet. Bowl lathering, applying lather with a slow hand in a painting motion, was the only way for me to make it work. In my book a looker but by no means a favourite in use.
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https://www.pennellificiopandolfo.com/ been there to look at boar brushes not sure about horse
Anyone actually measured loft on Zenith? According to Yourshaving 27 mm with 51 mm loft but judging by pics I would guess loft is more like 57 mm...
How do you guys care for your horse hair brushes? I am looking at getting one but keep reading stories about knotting and having to be careful not to splay the brush etc.
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As I said as well in my previous post, if you want a really good horse brush without the need of taking special care & problems with tangling issues, grab a Zenith horse instead of vielong ones from yourshaving.com shop... You won't be disappointed for sure!How do you guys care for your horse hair brushes? I am looking at getting one but keep reading stories about knotting and having to be careful not to splay the brush etc.
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