not a great buying experience and not a great brush [SEP] the brush itself is okay the bristles are a little softer than expected but i have been using a boar bristle hairbrush for years i expected something more like that and i expect that after using it a while i will be looking for something with a little more bite anyone that uses a actual loofah pad will find this much tamer it also shed a whole lot of bristles the first few times i used itand now for the down side this product was listed as prime eligible i ordered this along with a few other things and this item was singled out for slow shipment which then got misplaced somewhere in the midwest after waiting something like ten days i notified amazon and the nice rep did his best to fix things the brush finally arrived about a week after the replacement did another brand i did not want to take another chance on this vendor this is the first time this has happened in all the time i have been a prime member without my permissioni really hope no one else has this experience