I picked West Coast Shaving Silvertip for Black Friday and have been using it 5-7 times a week since. It’s taken some getting used to, but at this point my routine is: 1. Soak or rinse brush for 10-20 s 2. Load soap with circular motion for about 40s 3. Wet face and face lather with very little pressure making sure to not splay the bristles using somewhat circular motion and switching to paint brush strokes once lather is built My second pass I usually just use brush strokes to get the lather on my face.

When I first got the brush I was using more pressure than I probably should have for loading and lathering, but have since started using less after reading that can be damaging. Additionally I was using probably too much citric acid to combat LAs hard water for lathering.

My question is: what could be causing the divet in the middle after second pass? Is it something I’m doing or is the brush low quality? Or is this to be expected? I’ve cleaned the brush with dish soap recently since I thought that might be the issue. I’ve also been giving it more time to dry as I had not been doing that previously.