Boar Bristle Brush

Buying a hair brush for men is not always easy, as the considerations are sometimes different from buying a women’s hair brush.  For example, a men’s hair brush is more likely to be required to deal with shorter hair, and much less likely to be needed for long hair which needs more care and untangling.

For this reason, boar bristle brushes are actually ideal as a men’s hair brush.  Boar bristles are relatively soft and often quite short, meaning they are flexible and cannot always handle long, tangled hair very well.  For a man with short hair however, the boar bristles are excellent, as they will treat the hair well, spreading out natural oils and promoting healthy hair, without running into the problem of excessive knots and entanglements.

Men’s hair brushes will generally be high quality products, usually made of boar bristles and some kind of natural wood or metal.  This is because at the lower end, there is little to define a men’s brush as opposed to woman’s, so anyone specifically looking for a men’s hair brush is likely to find only fairly expensive versions.

Some companies which make men’s hair brushes include Mason Pearson, the famous British boar bristle brush company, Ambassador, Kent and Swissco.  There are also many more but these are the better known companies.  In general they make very high quality products and you usually pay the price for that.  It may be the case that you don’t have the budget for a high-priced item, in which case you may want to consider getting a regular brush.  There is no reason that men cannot use regular hairbrushes and nothing that specifically makes them better for men or for women, so you don’t need to feel that there is any kind of problem in purchasing a regular brush.