What makes this shaving brush stand so great this shaving brush creates an amazing amount of lather much more than a badger shaving brush the synthetic bristles are non absorbant so they need less shaving cream the bristles are much easier to clean and more hygienic than brushes made of animal hair because the bristles are non absorbant they do not aborb shaving gunk and other impurities and they do not continually expand and contract and therefore last longer particularly suited to