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[–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

People decided to care about the ethics of fur farming after synthetic materials made fur obsolete

Not really your main point, but I have a shaving brush made out of synthetic fiber and another made out of badger fur. The synthetic one is a complete pain to use


foam slides right off of it. I don't use it anymore.

That's the only case I can think of where I have a near-identical fur and synthetic form of something to compare. I can readily believe that the difference is eliminated or less-substantial elsewhere, but for that particular sample size of one, the synthetic one was pretty disappointing.

I can also believe that one can synthesize fibers that are less prone to the sliding


maybe they need to be made rougher?


than the brush manufacturer did with that shaving brush. But they didn't in that case.

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  • Also going to add that while not fur synthetic leather is absolutely shit, I have a leather jacket from the 70s that is still holding up really well but when I worked estate sales nearly every piece of synthetic leather we found was going through some type of severe breakdown.

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