Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great Little Brush
Comment: For the money you can't buy a better brush. I own silver tipped badger hair burshes that cost over $125.00 and they are really not that much better than this little brush. It gets the job done and is a very pleasant brush to use. It has a cheap wooden handle but it holds up very well. The bristles are soft and absorbent. What else do you want?
Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent Value For Money
Comment: My husband likes it, although he's not going to switch to shaving with a straight razor.
Customer Rating: Summary: Worked fine for me!
Comment: I give this one 4 stars just because I have never used any other badger brushes so I can't compare it to them.
However, this one is nice and soft feeling and worked up a mean lather from my Col. Conk's shaving soap in no time. The key is to use plenty of water, and mix until the lather is smooth and glossy.
The wooden handle might deteriorate after a while, but this is definitely a good starter brush for anyone who wants to try wet shaving without breaking the bank on a $100+ silver tipped badger brush :-)
I used it with a Merkur Classic DE razor and the two worked really well together to give me a great shave. I look forward to tomorrow when I get to do it again!
Customer Rating: Summary: Great deal, why bother paying so much more?
Comment: I searched around the internet for shaving brushes, and I thought a good one was going to cost me upwards of $50-$75. I was quite mistaken! It's not the most attractive brush I've seen for sale (no fancy chrome or extraneously colored hair), but it does its job as well as I could imagine an expensive one accomplishing. Sure, it loses maybe a hair every few shaves, but they haven't interfered with my shaving at all (I've only seen them in the soap mug, never on my face), and I doubt any brush is hair-loss proof, no matter how much money you spend.
I even let a friend try it out, and now I'm ordering one for him!
Highly recommended.
Customer Rating: Summary: The Thing with Shaving
Comment: I bought a Tweezerman shaving brush to replace a boar bristle brush I lost--yes lost. The Tweezerman does a better job because it's more comfortable and because it lathers up faster and thicker. That said, the differences are minor in respect to the final shave. Both do a good job and the job they both do good is keeping your skin wet while you shave. The badger bristles have a slight edge in this. You'd think keeping skin wet would be easy, but it's not. What lubricates a blade more than anything is the water itself and not what's in the soap. The second you splash water on your skin it immediately begins to evaporate, so by the time you get your razor to your face most of it has evaporated. The soap foam keeps the water at your skin--that's its job here. The best shave doesn't need any soap at all. Shave under a shower with no soap and you'll see what I mean. Try it as a test. You'll get the closest shave that way. Do this only if you have memorized where everything is on your face. Shaving foam does as good a job as a wet brush in my opinion and so I use it more often than not. My final view is that the Tweezerman brush is a great deal and works well. I can see no reason to buy a more expensive brush--some sell for more than a hundred plus some dollars. Whatever they add to the mix for this price is probably not worth it. If you want to impress people with your shaving acumen, learn to use a straight razor--not for wusses or the faint of heart, though. I have been using the brush for several months and have not had any of the quality issues like shedding bristles that others here have reported, so this experience seems to vary. There could be some quality control problems at play. I do make it a point to hang the brush upside-down to dry, though. Drying it bristle side up might allow water to pool so that the glue holding the bristles is weakened.
