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🙋 Is Simpson Trafalgar T3 good for face lathering? 🙋 What about backbone? 🙋

The T1 is great, a pleasure to use in both bowl and face lathering. It splays easily and is soft enough for scrubbing the way badger brushes are often used. I will say the T1 is everything a shaving brush needs to be. The other more expensive Simpsons are, well, «more» (bigger, denser), but they’re not better.

I also have the Duke 3 Platinum. It is much denser and stiffer, doesn’t splay easily and the tips feel scritchy. However, I’m used to painting motions, as Simpson recommends. Excellent highly effective brush, full face feel.

I’m not sure the Platinum bristles have anything to justify their higher price. If anything I might slightly prefer the Sovereign brushes.
 
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