Answer to few questions related to "Why the New Badger Hair Brush have an Odor and How to get rid of it"?
Answer: Badger Hairs are natural hairs and comes from real animal and manufacturer process these hairs by first cleaning, sterilizing, and then drying, making knots and put into different type of handles and packing. Now failure happens in many steps and most common failure related to odor is that hairs not properly cleaned with sufficient amount of cleaner or if cleaned then not dried properly before packing.
There are so many ways that this problem can be fixed. Our suggestion and proven way of getting this problem fixed is putting your new brush before use outside in fresh air into direct sun light for couple of hours (would say for at-least 4-5 hours). We had done this on several brushes and results are +ve. You can use other methods as well and can Google it on web. We had found one article on this topic and it explains as follows
" Why does my new badger brush smell bad? "
Paul
Stillwater, OK
First it's important to remember that badger brushes are made from the hair of an animal. We eat hamburgers without thinking of how the beef was processed; similarly we often enjoy shaving without considering the origin of the badger brush. Shaving brush manufacturers sterilize the hair before they knot it into a handle, but sometimes this process fails to completely remove the animal odor from the hair. Usually, you can simply just lather and rinse the brush a few times using your regular shaving soap or cream, and that will wash out most of the smell. If the brush has a strong odor that will not go away, you can soak it in a cup of warm water with a teaspoon of either Borax soap or vinegar. Allow the brush to soak in the solution for a minute or two, rinse thoroughly, and then allow it to dry. The next time you use your new shaving brush, it should have a noticeably less offensive odor.
