{"id":61069,"date":"2022-03-30T15:49:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T13:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zfohl43sjr.onrocket.site\/3-good-reasons-to-choose-a-shaving-brush\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T19:44:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:44:34","slug":"3-good-reasons-to-choose-a-shaving-brush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shavingroom.se\/en\/3-good-reasons-to-choose-a-shaving-brush\/","title":{"rendered":"3 good reasons to choose a shaving brush"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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There are many good reasons to choose to use a shaving brush when shaving. The best reason, at least if you ask us, is that it’s very nice. First, the feeling of creating your shaving foam. Then all that other stuff. Therefore, let’s present some good reasons to choose a shaving brush.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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1 Therapeutic<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Most, pretty much everyone who uses a shaving brush says the same thing. There’s something almost therapeutic about using a brush. To feel its weight in your hand, wet it just enough in warm water, then work up the shaving foam from the soap dish, soap mug or soap dish. Enjoy the white lather and smell the shaving cream or shaving soap. Sometimes also let it take a while, shut out the outside world for a while. Thinking that right now all that matters is to create the best possible shaving foam with the brush and shaving cream or shaving soap. <\/p>

Then how the brush slowly caresses the skin along the cheeks, neck, chin, under the nose, wherever you prefer to shave. I can almost feel how the beard hairs stand up with the help of the shaving brush and the shaving foam. Look at yourself in the mirror, think and philosophize, really be in the moment as it is there and then. <\/p>

How you somehow get a moment to yourself there and then, how the outside world disappears for a little while. Something that in a stressful world can be much needed. Once a month maybe, or at least once a week, we think you should set aside time for a really good wet shave with a brush. Make it a moment for yourself. Preferably with some good music in the background. <\/p>

That for us at least is the therapeutic thing about using a brush. Let your mind rest for a while while you apply the shaving foam with your shaving brush. In short, give your face a lovely massage every morning. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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A brush is not only therapy for your mind, it is also therapy for your skin. The brush applies the shaving soap or shaving cream in a much more effective way than your hands do, for example. The bristles in a brush are easier to penetrate into the pores and thus get a more deepening and better moisturizing effect from your shaving cream or shaving soap. One of many reasons why you should use a brush. <\/p>

In addition, a brush helps to lift the beard hairs before shaving. By lifting the beard hairs, it will be easier for the razor blade or razor to cut them off during the wet shave itself. Hopefully, it will also reduce the number of times you have to shave, thus reducing the risk of skin problems. <\/p>

The brush can also help to brush away dead skin cells and other things from the skin. Dead skin cells and other things that, for example, can cover pores that make it difficult to wash them. Of course, also other bacteria and the like that can be harmful to your skin. <\/p>

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3 Part of a history and culture<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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When you use the brush in your shave, you become part of a history and a culture that has existed for over 250 years. It all started in France in the mid-1700s and the tradition lives on today. France was also the country where the development of the modern safety razor started around the same time. <\/p>

Read more about the development of a modern safety razor<\/a><\/p>

Already early on, just as today, both the handle and the brush head for the brushes were made of both simpler and more exotic materials. Materials such as ivory, precious metals such as gold and silver, and tortoise shells were very common. Today, artificial variations of these materials are used. The finest brush heads then as now were made of badger hair. Simpler materials such as wild boar droppings or horsehair were also used. Then together with simpler handles of, for example, simpler types of wood. In the past, even expensive woods could be part of a brush. <\/p>

Some materials such as horn and porcelain are still found today in shaving brushes, then from sustainable producers. Today, brush heads are mainly made from hair from either badgers or wild boars. Bristles from wild boar give a slightly coarser and harder bristle. <\/p>

During the 1800s, when more and more people began to shave at home by themselves instead of visiting a barber, a brush together with a razor would become a clear status symbol in a man’s home. Therefore, having a shaving brush made of a beautiful exotic material was considered very nice. A beautiful brush and is still a certain status marker in a bathroom. Using a brush in yours is also a marker that you care about your shave, that it’s more than just a chore that you have to do. It’s something you want to do. <\/p>

Nowadays, there is also the option of choosing completely synthetic alternatives to your shaving brush. If you don’t want to or can’t choose an option with pet hair, there are plenty of synthetic options that in the vast majority of cases are just as good if not better than those from pet hair. Below, M\u00fchle talks about how they created their fine silver tip fibres brushes. An excellent alternative to silver tip badger brushes. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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