This is an outstanding shaving brush, and I would encourage Men's Soap Company to eschew synthetic brushes and continue producing animal-based brushes, albeit with attention to ethical means of production. Synthetic brushes means continuing societal addiction to petroleum products, adding nanoparticle plastics to the environment, and ultimately doing more harm to the ecosystem than harvesting natural resources such as animal furs. The challenge is in producing animal products humanely, which much of agribusiness shunts to one side. I hope Men's Soap Company does not produce a synthetic brush.