Semogue Owners Club Shaving Brush - SOC - Bristle and Cherry

Nice looking hand made Boar bristle. I face lather for shaving, I don't see the point in lathering a bowl. As this brush breaks in, the Bristles start to split, the brush becomes the best way to lift whiskers. I use hard shaving soap and this brush has the backbone to lift the soap to be painted onto your face. It is cheaper than my Silvertip Badger brushes, not as soft as my Synthetic brushes but is in the perfect zone for soap lathering and shaving. The brush takes a few weeks to break in, and continues to soften. Importantly, the brush will not completely soften throughout, it will keep that firm interior to enable soap lathering. Very comfortable to use. Competitively priced for high quality. You need one of these in your shaving collection. You can learn how to break-in Boar Bristle on YouTube.

If you are into double edged (or single-edged) shaving, and like natural boar bristle brushes instead of the artificial ones, this has to be in your collection.The SOC has its own echelon among not just the Semogue, but all boar shaving brushes. It is majestic to look at, to hold, extremely well-built (hardly any shedding).It bites into triple milled soap easily. Don’t use with cream, that’s like wasting this brush. Has the right amount of give and scratch on your beard. Transfers most of the soap onto your face. And with the right soap and sharp blade, ensures a smooth shave even in the first pass.Slightly costly, but then its regality deserves the price. You’d pride it as a possession while you enjoy the shaves. I reduced one star because there are a couple of brushes in the Semogue collection that tug at my heart more, just by their looks, as well as performance. The SOC is slightly large to dislodge them from my memory.

Damn! That's a nice brush. It only too a couple of weeks to break in. Now it's whisper soft and is a lather beast!

6/22/2018 Update: My Semogue Owners Club shaving brush has been in service since 1/2/2015( 3 years, 5 months and 22 days).Today, some of the boar bristles started to come loose. My birthday is next month on July 5th, I will order a replacement on that day. I use this shaving brush at least 15 times per month, you do the math. It owes me nothing, best investment on a shaving brush so far. (See attached photo) It is in a class of its own. I will continue to use it until It falls apart completely.——— ———— —————Original review:I purchased the Semogue Owners Club - Pure Bristle Shaving Brush Cherry also known as. - S.O.C.: it is fatter, denser and softer. This is by far the best brush I've ever used! I like this far more than badger hair brushes and it's got a lot of backbone but the bristles are still very soft. It comes with the best boar bristles around. It is super soft.I'm glad I spent the extra money to get this brush because this is probably the only brush I will ever use! I love the knot at 24mm. It's just fantastic, and the Loft at 57mm - combined it has a lot of backbone for face lathering as well as to tackle down hard shaving soaps, yet. Boar bristles are thicker and stronger, so they are naturally a better choice with hard soaps. A softer and much more flexible badger hair will require more work and more time to extract the same quantity of soap, simply because it has less `bite'.It doesn't smell (even if it came with the natural smell of the bristles, you have to conditioned it using your favorite shaving soaps)I read some of the reviews and it is just sure ignorance that I hear.Anyone purchasing the S.O.C. must know that there is a breaking period for any brush. But this boar bristle shaving brush gets even softer with time. The one i got is already great, it can only get better.One of the many benefits of boar bristle:One important point about boar bristles, which is very different from badger, is that a natural boar bristle will split, over time, into 2 or 3 individual `hair tips' connected to the same thick shaft. This gives you the benefit of a finer, thinner and softer hair with the support of a thicker, firmer bristle. If the bristles have been clipped, however, this will not likely happen, as the bristle has likely been cut below the area that would normally split. Also, thinner boar bristles will split less and also less often as will their thicker counterparts.Semogue fine craftsmanship is second to none.

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