Edwin Jagger 1EJ946SDS Classic Best Badger Hair Exfoliating Shaving Brush with Stand for Shaving Cream or Shaving Soap for Men and Women (Imitation Ebony)

I have been shaving for over 40 years. That's a long time and a lot of shaves! I started out many years ago with a shaving mug, a cake of soap and a double edge razor. Over the years, I dabbled with electric razors, but I always felt that the shave was not as close as with a razor with an actual blade. For many years now, I have used cartridge razors. They are handy, work well with shaving creams available in just about all department/grocery stores, and rarely produce nicks or cuts... if you change cartridges relatively regularly. For me, that is at least once each week to week and a half. Cartridges are EXPENSIVE!!!I recently switched back to double edge razor shaving. The blades are MUCH less expensive, and I have found that the shave is also much closer... although you have to slow down and make multiple passes instead of "slap - dap - done" that is possible with the cartridge razor system. I purchased the shaving brush to increase the luxury of the shave - a luxury that I can well afford with the elimination of the expense of the cartridges that I no longer have to fork $$$ out for. This particular brush is much nicer feeling and produces better lather than the brush I used many years ago. I attribute that to the badger bristles used in this brush instead of the boar bristles that my old brush used. My face is well hydrated with the lather produced with this brush (and a Crabtree & Evelyn shaving cream) and the razor glides smoothly and leaves a silky smooth aftermath.I have been using the Edwin Jagger Best Badger shaving brush for 2 weeks now - and a single DE razor blade - and couldn't be happier. A very close shave, a luxurious lather, and a pleasant experience now that I have slowed down to actually enjoy the experience.

This is my first shaving brush. I have been using it for 5 months now, as my beginning into DE shaving. The brush is high quality, hand knotted in Sheffield England. It feels soft and smooth on your face and beard and shaving is now a luxury for me, not just a daily chore, the brush softens the hair and works great, you can feel the exfoliation effects...now I know why my wife loves facials. The included stand is very nice and matches perfectly, I am very happy with the stand included. If you want pretty chrome and want to spend buy one, after all this is a bathroom counter accessory. A stand is a must to let your brush air dry properly, with the brush tips down, and you never want to rest the brush on it's bristles, so even during shaving flip it over to rest it on the counter, once dry completely you can invert your brush on its' top for storage.How to choose a shave brush? I knew to go with badger hair from all my research on DE & wet shaving, but picking the quality of badger hair from the 4 types of badger hair qualities was difficult. Better hair is better right? Yes but also very expensive. Well being new to wet shaving I did not want to ruin a very expensive brush, so I eliminated the top two qualities and targeted the best quality brush I could find under $60. This brush was about $45 included a stand and was Best Badger. That was the easy winner.I also choose a rounded brush over a staight brush, because it would cover more of my face faster, and provide more surface area. The medium size is ideal for my average size face. I lather up in 4 quadrants to keep the face lather wet, a good wet lather is important to a good and comfortable shave. Once you finish a quadrant rinse and move to the next area. Come back at the end and go over any areas you missed, short hairs left, or better yet redo the whole face.My brush looses an occasional hair which can be either a sign of poor quality or misuse. As I became more experienced, the hair loss from the brush is much less. Maybe one hair a week, it is still a lot but I am not an expert on wet shaving yet either, so for the price and inexperience I think that's me being to hard on the brush.If you take care of this brush it should last many years. Being new to wet shaving I have to remind myself not to press too hard so I don't ruin the brush tips...that ruins your brush. I bought a quality shave cream - Taylor of Old Bond also from Amazon. I started lathering with an old mug, but I was banging the top of the brush annoying my wife and not getting a good lather. I now use a small Pyrex bowl to lather up and that works great, lots of room and I get a great lather....spending a minute to gently work up a good lather is well worth the time.I love this brush it will sit next to the Jagger 98l DE razor I bought as my first DE razor for many years.

I am a boar brush guy, apparently. I picked up this brush as I was trying boar, badger, synthetic to see what I prefer. I like it. It's soft if that's your thing. It makes a lot of lather..that it doesn't like to give up. It's definitely got a bit of badger funk, but not bad.The real problem I have is, as another reviewer mentioned, there was a small rubber band holding the brush in the stand. Mine and the other reviewers was around the knot itself. After I pried the brush out of the stand, there were frayed hairs sticking out all over. The opening in the stand isn't big enough. It kinda pops in and out. So, as the title says, once removed, I wouldn't suggest using the stand. It definitely damages the hairs. I dropped about a dozen on the first shave, and only a couple on the second shave, but the knot was definitely affected by the rubber band, and ill fitted stand.It's a good brush, though. I doubt it will shed much after all the damaged hairs shed or break. I'm going to try to dry in a TP roll to see if I can fix the bloom.