Enter the boar bristle brush: designed to minimise breakage, seal split ends and reduce frizz. Boar bristle brushes create tension and catch every hair, and are gentle on both fine and coarse hair.

The cork handle means that you never lose your grip on the brush, which makes it so easy to blow dry waves and curls into your hair; the stiff boar hair bristles also leave a nice shine.

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“Natural boar bristles brushes as well as paddle brushes are more gentle to the hair,” says lead hair stylist at CULt London, Francesco Aresco. “Cheap plastic is never a good ...