Pleasant surprise, Omega synthetic

[gadgetgeek]

I've been looking for travel brush options, and found a decent price on a omega synthetic brush, so I pulled the trigger. My thinking is that it should dry faster, and in general be less troublesome if its packed damp. So far I've tried it with proraso, and MWF, so a soft and hard soap. It lathers both well, holds lots of water, and does dry quick.

My impressions. It feels pretty good. I wouldn't mind a bigger one, but I'm spoiled by my big Theirs Issard badger. So for the size, it does well. It heats up well, softens nicely, but still feels "scrubby" and not floppy which I like.

So if you are thinking of going with a synthetic brush for any reason, ethical, political, or practical, go ahead and get one. I would love if they would do a proper big one, but maybe there is a reason they don't?

 

[Will Power]

I'm glad to hear this, I've a Men-U synthetic brush that is around 8 years old and it has performed very well indeed.

On the other hand, I have an Omega Silvertip Badger and it's frankly a huge waste of money, never stops shedding soon it will be bald...don't let people feed you this nonsense of "the more you pay the better the quality..." No.

 

[BobbyH]

Yea, bought a Muhle synthetic silver tip travel brush and it has done well with any of the creams or soaps I have tried with it. I initially tried a synthetic brush from The Body Shop which should have been called pathetic instead of synthetic IMHO. It was a bad enough experience it almost put me off synthetics all together. Glad it did not.

If you have a brush the sheds excessively it should be returned as it should not do that. None of my 3 silver tip badger brushes shed excessively. True you don't always get what you pay for OTH my Muhle synthetic cost more than The Body Shop's one and IMHO was far superior.

All anyone needs to lather up soaps and creams can be accomplished with a $15.00 Omega boar brush but what would be the fun in that?

Bob

 

[THG]

I've been using an Omega Synthetic for maybe a year and a half or two years, now. It's much better compared to my previous badger brush. The Omega holds plenty of water and is soft while still lathering great. And it doesn't smell bad.