Can badger hair cause itching?

No, a Badger brush has never caused me to itch.

Other things than that make me itch.

I recently got that itchy jawline and neck to the point that I had to go my doctor for help. I asked her what from my daily routine could be causing it and she said it was most probably EO and FO in my soaps. I asked about badger and she said that,  while it was possible, it is highly unlikely . She prescribed some hormonal ointment, a week long treatment with Claritin, and made me stop using any scented soaps for two weeks. And it worked!

I did some further experimentation afterwards and it is confirmed now that many of my most favorite soaps with strong smells cause the itchiness and will most probably have to go

Thanks for sharing. I am thinking it is a particular soap and not the brush. Soap is gone and brush is being replaced with synthetic knot.

What brand of badger brush is it ?
What knot size, loft and knot shape is it ?
Do you use it with several different soaps and cream ?
Do you face lather or bowl lather ?
How hard do you press it against you face - so it splays completely, or just half way in ?

As said you may be allergic to badger hair, but if you answer the other questions, you can just be using a brush model that simply does not suit you !

What brand of badger brush is it ?
What knot size, loft and knot shape is it ?
Do you use it with several different soaps and cream ?
Do you face lather or bowl lather ?
How hard do you press it against you face - so it splays completely, or just half way in ?

As said you may be allergic to badger hair, but if you answer the other questions, you can just be using a brush model that simply does not suit you !

Those Simpson brushes......

What brand of badger brush is it ?
What knot size, loft and knot shape is it ?
Do you use it with several different soaps and cream ?
Do you face lather or bowl lather ?
How hard do you press it against you face - so it splays completely, or just half way in ?

As said you may be allergic to badger hair, but if you answer the other questions, you can just be using a brush model that simply does not suit you !

Those Simpson brushes......

Agreed.

I used my Simpson Chubby 2 Super 3-band for the first time in months today, and even though the handle is bit on the smalle side for me now, I still think this brush is magnificient and soft and just feels so luxuirous, that no synthetic can even come close to competing......

Just that big giant 27 mm 3-band knot that just feels so nice against your face - no scritch at all, not cloud soft like a synthetic, but angel soft like a badger feels - like it's telling the stubbles: Yes, I'm soft and gentle, but I will still give your darn black hairs a good coating with thick soapy lather, so you're ready to be cut off in a couple of minutes

What brand of badger brush is it ?
What knot size, loft and knot shape is it ?
Do you use it with several different soaps and cream ?
Do you face lather or bowl lather ?
How hard do you press it against you face - so it splays completely, or just half way in ?

As said you may be allergic to badger hair, but if you answer the other questions, you can just be using a brush model that simply does not suit you !

Those Simpson brushes......

Agreed.

I used my Simpson Chubby 2 Super 3-band for the first time in months today, and even though the handle is bit on the smalle side for me now, I still think this brush is magnificient and soft and just feels so luxuirous, that no synthetic can even come close to competing......

Just that big giant 27 mm 3-band knot that just feels so nice against your face - no scritch at all, not cloud soft like a synthetic, but angel soft like a badger feels - like it's telling the stubbles: Yes, I'm soft and gentle, but I will still give your darn black hairs a good coating with thick soapy lather, so you're ready to be cut off in a couple of minutes  

I was just joking. One thing for me, I can't do Simpson Manchurian.

Honestly, badger hair brushes have become one of the simple "guilty" pleasures still in my life. As I have grown older, I have had to give most of the rest of them up. If I found out tomorrow that I was allergic, I would probably sit down with my sundress over my head and cry like a little girl.


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Those Simpson brushes......

Agreed.

I used my Simpson Chubby 2 Super 3-band for the first time in months today, and even though the handle is bit on the smalle side for me now, I still think this brush is magnificient and soft and just feels so luxuirous, that no synthetic can even come close to competing......

Just that big giant 27 mm 3-band knot that just feels so nice against your face - no scritch at all, not cloud soft like a synthetic, but angel soft like a badger feels - like it's telling the stubbles: Yes, I'm soft and gentle, but I will still give your darn black hairs a good coating with thick soapy lather, so you're ready to be cut off in a couple of minutes  

I was just joking. One thing for me, I can't do Simpson Manchurian.

There is always 2-band Silvertip and 3-band Super. Soft as a pillow on my skin, Hector

Honestly, badger hair brushes have become one of the simple "guilty" pleasures still in my life. As I have grown older, I have had to give most of the rest of them up. If I found out tomorrow that I was allergic, I would probably sit down with my sundress over my head and cry like a little girl.


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I agree wholeheartedly

Agreed.

I used my Simpson Chubby 2 Super 3-band for the first time in months today, and even though the handle is bit on the smalle side for me now, I still think this brush is magnificient and soft and just feels so luxuirous, that no synthetic can even come close to competing......

Just that big giant 27 mm 3-band knot that just feels so nice against your face - no scritch at all, not cloud soft like a synthetic, but angel soft like a badger feels - like it's telling the stubbles: Yes, I'm soft and gentle, but I will still give your darn black hairs a good coating with thick soapy lather, so you're ready to be cut off in a couple of minutes  

I was just joking.  One thing for me, I can't do Simpson Manchurian.

There is always 2-band Silvertip and 3-band Super. Soft as a pillow on my skin, Hector

Indeed. I have a few in Super and Best, oldies, but very soft. Good Simpson vintage