Top critical review
3.0 out of 5 starsDefinitely has a funky smell to it
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2015
Boar Brushes:
- Tend to have firmer bristles, which makes it easier to work the soap into a coarse beard
- I would suggest using this if you have thick or coarse hair, or if you tend to let your beard grow out. The tougher bristles make it easier to work the lather down into the beard beyond the long/coarse hair.
Badger Brushes:
- Tend to have softer bristles which can feel nice, but is not as good at working the lather behind longer/tougher hair.
- I would suggest using this if you shave daily (never grow your beard out), have incredibly soft/thin hair, or if you are a woman shaving your legs. The softer bristles feel nice, but it really struggles to get lather down into the hair if you let it grow out. If you are a woman and let your leg hair get long then you would want to consider the boar brush as well, but generally leg hair is spread out enough that it's not as much an issue as it is for beards.
Pro's:
- Nice stiff boar bristles make it great for working the soap into a lather and getting it into a beard.
- Very cheap price
Con's:
- Funky wet wild animal smell, hopefully this goes away at some point as this is a deal breaker if it lasts long term. (-1 star)
- Bristles seem a bit too long making the brush pretty huge. I would actually like to see this as a shorter brush. (-1 star)
Overall:
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I generally like the brush, but it would be better if it was a tad shorter and the smell is pretty bad. Hopefully the smell will go away at some point because if you had to shave every morning with a brush that smelled like that you simply wouldn't do it. And for those that say the hair is from an animal, so are all the other brushes I have used and this is the only one to smell so bad. So clearly there is some sort of treatment to get rid of the smell which Omega simply doesn't appear to use. Nothing wrong with that given the cheap price, but this is only viable if the smell eventually goes away. If the smell doesn't go away it's worth spending the money on a better quality brush.
Personally I would not recommend this brush at this point. I will wait until the smell goes away (if ever) before I would recommend this brush, but that is really my only major complaint. A few hairs worked loose while using it, but that is pretty normal for most new brushes. But the brush is so large it feels kinda like using a large paint brush on my face.
