Thread: Drying your brush

Was always told if you shook it more than 3x you were playing with it..... Ok seriously though I rinse, shake excess out, an hang bristle down till dry. Like the others I rotate between a couple brushes. Before I had brushes to rotate I only used the one for a year or so with this method. No issues.

I mostly use one Art of Shaving (AoS) brush from one of their starter sets. An associate at the AoS store once told me that those models were expected to only last a year. I've used it almost daily for about five years. What I do is rinse it out thoroughly under the tap and gently shake out most of the water into the bathroom sink, then give it three strong flicks into the sink to really get the water out. Finally I place it on it's handle with bristles up atop the AoS shaving cream container to await my next shave.

Thanks for all of the replies. I also hang mine with the hairs down after I dry it by squeezing, shaking and rubbing on my arms like I was talking about. It sounds like everyone has 2 brushes. Should I have another brush for rotation reasons? Are yall just trying to make them last longer or is it better for them to dry for at least a whole day or something? I would really, really hate to have to get another brush Thanks for any more input.

I generally shave it ten times (yes, I count). These days, I squeeze AND shake ten times (last month or so). I stand mine upside down and it doesn't seem to effect the brushes at all; although currently my one and only brush has a plastic handle, I guess if it was wooden the water 'falling' down into the wood might be a problem.

I think many have different brushes just 'cause they can and they like using different brushes. I'd bet that very very few, if any, have more than one of a single type of brush (i.e. more than one of one brush) just so the brush dries between use. BTW, I also felt a 'seven day' set of one sort of razor would be boring, regardless of how mice the razor was.

Carl

I only rinse and shake the excess water out into the bath
Then hang with bristles down until next shave, I shave every 2nd day and have only 1 brush a EJ best badger been using for a year with this method and it still looks like new with no problems

Bill, I know your just experimenting, so how has the soap in the brush been acting? I know most soaps don't matter if the lid is off so I guess it cant hurt ,, but maybe the knot in the base could be affected? any way I,m not going to do it cause my pixel brushes have their own stands , but your experiment is interesting because it just shows that sometimes we might just be a little to fixated on overdoing things ,,, let us know if there is any adverse problems, p.s. I guess you will get a long time out of your kilos that way tc

Terry, really cannot tell a hill of beans Differance,we shall see.

As far as i can tell one brush is ample, i have a few, but really only use 2, 1 at work and 1 at home and even that is because i cant be bothered packing my brush every time i go to work.
No i dont shave twice or more a day, i work away.
At home my brush hangs bristles down in a stand, at work it stands on its handle, in either case it gets the excess lather wrung out into my bowl, and rinsed, then flicked an arbitary number of times, but around 5 - 10, then left.

I have brushes with both wood and synthetic handles in boar, badger and synthetic knots. I shave with and rinse the brushes with cold water. I hold the knot at the base clenched between thumb and fore finger while rinsing. Give it a gentle squeeze and maybe more rinsing if soap still shows on the tips after the squeeze. Gently squeeze again followed by several flicks and then stored knot down.

I have enough brushes that shaving daily means the brush has several days to dry thoroughly before being used again. That has been my routine until I got my Simpsons Chubby2 synthetic. I have been using that almost daily for several months since getting it. The rinse routine has been the same but I can't store it knot down between uses. Even stored upright and for such a large knot it dries thoroughly over night anyway. It has shed not one fiber in that time.

Long winded but that has been my experience so far with cleaning brushes post shave.

Bob

Originally Posted by LaneC

dry it pretty good by rubbing the damp brush on my arms and sometimes my chest. It dries it out good and sort of acts like a cologne.

The brush is for my face only
I don't mess the bristles with sweat of scent from body-spray etc.