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Happy! Excellent synthetic brush with a plastic handle. Everything looks expensive, plus no guilt of harming animals (though not my main criterion). The materials look, feel and work really good - you will be surprised, I was!The brush does not loose hairs, each synthetic hair is thicker at the root and goes thinner at the end, badger colour, badger feel, a perfect elasticity is maintained when whet, dry and expected to remain the same over the years of use. I was specifically looking for a synthetic brush, as it does not smell wet dog and dries quicker.The handle is solid, thick plastic which looks like black glass. It doubles as a stand. The print on it is also of a good quality, pretty, subtle and seems to be able to withstand wear.The box is a cardboard tube, which looks very presentable, but not suitable for the role of travel case. This product will work as a present without any embarrassment.This review is for Benny's of London - Shave Brush

The shaving brush works well and seems very durable. I won’t have to buy a new one for a long time. I’m very happy with it. Highly recommended. Not for vegans though.

Bought this to replace the cheap and nasty Wilkinson Sword brush that everyone tries first. I should know better as my main squeeze is an Edwin Jagger pure badger. For one reason or another I'm having to build a second shaving kit from scratch and had forgotten. Anyway, The Benny was a chance to try a synthetic as well as move on from the above mentioned Wilkinson brush, which is pretty awful.I've held back from reviewing this brush as I wanted to remind myself of how it compared to badger. I've now been able to so here we are.There's appears to have been quite a revolution in synthetics in the last few years with Plisson leading the charge along with Muele's v1 and v2 Silver Tipped Fiber. Others are starting to copy this technology and knock out very affordable (in the US) and nice synthetic brushes. Over here supply is limited or out of stock - at least for the moment. The l'Occitaine version of the Plisson brush isn't even made anymore. A Plisson synthetic costs silly money in the UK. I thought I would try this brush as it looks much like a Plisson knot and was inexpensive and available.Much of the advantages and disadvantages of this brush could equally be levelled at almost any recent generation of synthetic against a badger brush although I haven't in all honesty yet tried a Muele STF, a Plisson Synthetic or indeed things like Sterlings' Kong or Razorocks' range of Plissoft brushes. I understand from reliable Youtube reviewers of shaving kit they are very good.In comparison with a badger brush I would say it has a denser knot and when dry is very pleasingly soft at the tips. It dries very quickly and appears well put together. The downside is that tip softness does not translate into it's ability to splay easily when putting lather on your face. There's too much stiffness or 'backbone' for it to splay without more pressure than you might like to use. A warm and damp, fully loaded badger has much less stiffness and splays easily making getting a good application up and around all the hairs much easier. If you're strictly a 'painter' of foam on your face then it's not an issue. It's also a bit easier to whip up a nice thick lather quickly with badger as the cream seems to trap more easily between the hairs and build foam more efficiently. This may be because water is better trapped in a badger hair than a synthetic fibre which just sort of shrugs it off.I have to say though that I'm soft enough to be increasingly uncomfortable about the use of badger hair for shaving brushes and think synthetics are coming on in leaps and bounds.Is this as good as a badger brush? No.Is it good enough? Not quite but it's almost thereWill I continue searching for another synthetic with a bit less backbone? At some point. Money is probably better spent experimenting with other components of the shave at this point.The Benny brush is a massive leap up from the Wilkinson brush and still very reasonably priced. It may not be at the cutting edge of what synthetics can offer but it's perfectly servicable. Remember too that this brush will be dry in minutes if that's important to you. A badger takes hours to dry and smells a bit off for a week when you get it.As a first brush or as a backup it's perfectly good. Certainly good enough to tip the balance of my ethical issue about badgers to the point where I won't ever buy another badger brush.It is, after all, just a shave.

The heading says it all. I've tried synthetic brushes in the past and they have all been rubbish; so I've used Badger brushes, but I'm not overjoyed at the prospect of animals being killed just so I can scrape my face.When I saw this brush's description I was sceptical after reading the hyperbole and from my previous experience of synthetic brushes. I was also reluctant to pay £13 for a synthetic brush but it really does live up to the claims.It's soft but not too soft, makes a superb lather (especially when using Benny's shaving cream) and in the eight months I've been using it it hasn't shed a single hair. The only minor quibble I have is that the handle is just a little too small for my liking. If the handle was the same size as this brush - Vulfix 404 Grosvenor Mixed Badger and Boar Bristle Shaving Brush - it would be perfect for me.Edit 31/1/22 - I've upgraded my review to 5* and I've deleted the "little overpriced" comment. This brush still hasn't shed a single hair and based on that, along with my other comments, I'd now say it isn't overpriced.

I have been sent this brush by Benny’s as a free sample but already have one that I purchased in 2018 so feel that two years on I can leave a pretty honest review. In the pictures the brush on the left is the new one and the one on the right the two year old one. I would say that if you average it out I shave every other day and have been wet shaving with various brushes for about 20 years. These brushes are outstanding at providing a great lather with no hair loss. The plastic carry case helps to keep it in shape and as you can see from the brush on the right even after two years there is virtually no difference between that and the brand new one on the right, after at least 300 shaves, probably more. For what these brushes cost they are a bargain and no badgers were harmed in making them. If your going to start using a brush to shave with you will not go wrong with this one, and once you use a shaving brush you will realise what you have been missing from your facial maintenance routine all these years. Just buy one.