Badger brush ruined after first shave?

Hello all,

First time posting, and first time using a straight razor and brush today. To start, I swirled the brush around in the bowl to get a lather going, then swirled it on my face to spread the soap around. I notice that the bristles stayed very tight and straight, perpendicular to the handle. I didnt think much of it until I finished up and saw that the center of the brush was extremely knotted and tangled. I'm not at all sure what I did wrong, but more importantly, I can't find a way to get the brush back to form

Please help

 

sounds like an Epic situation. got any pictures....

 

My horse hair did that when I tried swirling . I had a little comb I used to comb it out while it was wet

 

Sounds like you were using wayyyy to much pressure, you can shampoo it and comb it out...

 

Ditto.

I had a horse knot of indeterminate origin that was set into an old handle. I never could get that brush to do anything without getting tangled up.

I know the OP states badger hair but I have never seen this problem on a badger, only the aforementioned horse...

 

You would actually not want to use shampoo but ratehr conditioner. As wierd as it sounds you would want a pet hair conditioner vs human also. This will loosen the fibers and help comb it out.

 

Never seen nor heard of that until now.

Hope you get back into usable condition.

 

:sihns011 Best of luck to you, and welcome to The Shave Den!

 

Thanks everyone. I used shampoo and a comb to fix it. Still getting use to this wet shave thing...thanks again

 

Good, glad you got it sorted out. :happy088

 

Bully!happy088

 

Glad you got it sorted out - that would freak me out entirely...

 

glad it worked out . It freaked me out when my cleves horse got tangled to