Recommendation for synthetic travel brush?

[RobG]

Hi Guys,

I'm looking for a recommendation for a good travel brush. I've come to prefer synthetic brushes, and I think they're well suited for travel (just considering drying times).

I currently have a Muhle (medium-sized, not sure which one exactly), which I enjoy very much.

So what should I look for? Another Muhle? The special travel brush or a normal one plus a Simpson tube or something? Or something entirely different?

Thanks!

Hi Guys,

I'm looking for a recommendation for a good travel brush. I've come to prefer synthetic brushes, and I think they're well suited for travel (just considering drying times).

I currently have a Muhle (medium-sized, not sure which one exactly), which I enjoy very much.

So what should I look for? Another Muhle? The special travel brush or a normal one plus a Simpson tube or something? Or something entirely different?

Thanks!

Hi, I love my small handled 24mm Yaqi brush bought on Aliexpress.

I also purchased two airtight aluminium tubes. The 120mm takes the brush comfortably and the smaller one, you can squash/shape an Arko stick into the lid as a soap container.
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[RobG]

My favorite travel brush (I even use it for non travel shaves often) is the 24mm Yaqi Sagrada Familia. Nice and soft, perfect lathers every time, holds enough for 4-5 passes, and dries quickly. Fits easily in my dopp bag.

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Definitely with you on that. I have the same brush and posted a similar comment on this thread. Found a nice travel tube for it as well.

 

[DrTron]

As I discovered that I bought my daily Muehle brush over 5 years ago, I decided that it will now serve as my travel brush (got myself a cheap plastic tube to store it in) and treated myself to a new medium-sized Muehle.

Yes, it's a bit better than the 5-year-old one, but not much. Those things really hold up well with time.

 

[Chan Eil Whiskers]

I recently bought a Yaqi Cola 22 mm synthetic and it would be great for traveling IMO.
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Have some great shaves!

Great container idea.

Also, pharmacies have some pretty huge pill bottles.

I use the Omega Evo as a travel brush. I like it very much indeed.

Happy shaves,

Jim

 

[Hardrock]

How about a cashmere and a pill bottle? Very similar characteristics to your muhle stf for not alot of money.

 

[TMacpherson]

I do like this one. I have the black one and it is Muhle in a clever travel design that dries properly:

MÜHLE Travel Silver Anodized Aluminum Silvertip Fiber Travel Shaving Brush

The high-quality synthetic Fibers represent a world first of our own invention. We offer a synthetically produced premium quality whose material characteristics are analogous to those of the precious natural hair, silvertip badger.

muhleshaving.com

I have this one. I really love it.

 

[musicman1951]

Over the past few years I've tried quite a few for travel and they all work just fine. Take any one you like. I currently use an EVO.

 

[Ivo4u2]

A synthetic is more travel friendly as a natural hair brush. No soaking, quick lather, quick drying, less chance of funk.

just a matter of a knot to face lather or to paint or both.

there are plenty of plastic travel tubes fitting existing brushes

for a brush I would first go for what you like in a handle shape.

unless you have to travel ultralight then an Alluminium handle/tube or plastic one wins.

if you have butter fingers or are very rough on your gear also think twice.
Alluminium can dent and if you have a threaded brush that might give issues.

plastic/acrylic? Hnmmmm I dropped a grooming co in Cambodia on my shower floor and ended up with a shattered handle, sharp fragments everywhere (white on white no glasss fun) and a knot which I could barely use for the remaining weeks.

more nylon or rubbery should handle all abuse but ugly

metal if I drop my Yaqi heavy metal it might break tiles.

someone made a cork handle that could be ideal, gripy, light, should handle a drop or two

Otoh if you have an old no much use brush give it a tube and be done with it.

 

[8 Track]

Small but mighty if maximizing space is the ultimate end game.

 

[BaPh96]

I would highly recommend the 24mm synthetic from Caisson Shaving company. Great handle and it comes with the travel tube. It's part of my regular rotation and the one I grab for going on trips.

 

[Steve_in_CT]

My favorite travel brush (I even use it for non travel shaves often) is the 24mm Yaqi Sagrada Familia. Nice and soft, perfect lathers every time, holds enough for 4-5 passes, and dries quickly. Fits easily in my dopp bag.

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I have the Sagrada Familia handle, but I re-knotted it with the PAA Roswell Grey Hybrid Synthetic as I didn't like the Yaqi Tuxedo knot. It's a great travel brush that also gets used quite often at home.