[Up-Date (2009:07/17): Some time after this entry was posted, CoolShaving.com removed its fraudulent claims, which had been up since at least 19 July 2006.]

At CoolShaving.com, they claim

Believe it or not, a young man actually thought we killed badgers to get these bristles for our shaving brushes. Nothing could be further from the truth. The manufacturer of these superior quality brushes maintains a flock of badgers that are more pampered and coddled than any badger in the wild, or any domestic animal for that matter.

The page on which they advertise the line of shave brushes doesn't identify the maker in text, but on the handles one can see that these brushes are branded Col. Ichabod Conk.

The Conk brushes are manufactured by Progress-Vulfix Ltd and by Dovo.

Progress-Vulfix Ltd makes no claims about a flock of badgers[1] nor of not using the bristles of killed badgers on the page where they describe their brushes at VulfixOldOriginal.com nor on that at Progress-Vulfix.com. Neither the string cruelty-free nor vegan are found at VulfixOldOriginal.com, nor at Progress-Vulfix.com

The brush that Dovo supplies to Conk isn't listed on the page of brushes sold by CoolShaving.com. But, for the record, the strings ohne Grausamkeit [without cruelty], Grausamkeit-frei, cruelty-free, and vegan do not appear at the Dovo site.

CoolShaving.com is registered to Jim H. Hedgepath of 129 Minnie Fallaw Road, Lexington, SC 29073-8226.

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[1] A company of badgers is called a cete /sit/.

Tags: badgers, bristles, brushes, fur, shaving, shaving brushes

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