Thread: Drying Position.

Once your brush clean from lather and well shaken over the sink,or the shower tub, before letting it dry up or downwards, put a towel on your shoulder and brush it with your shaving brush. It will reduce the drying time.

Originally Posted by YoWan

Once your brush clean from latherand well shaken over the sink,or the shower tub, before letting it dry up or downwards, put a towel on your shoulder and brush it with your shaving brush. It will reduce the drying time.

+1 on this. Rinse the brush well. Then shake out all excess water. Then dry the brush on a clean towel. That removes additional water and also separates the hairs/bristles of the brush so they dry more easily.

Due to capillary action, water water will always try to migrate to the area where the bristles are closest together; that means the base of the knot. Thus, that will be the last place to dry. If the brush is left standing upwards, you will have both capillary action and gravity drawing water to the base. Thus, I like to hang my brushes upside down for 24 hours after use. At least gravity is now working for you. After 24 hours, the brush is dry enough to stand up on the shelf.

With natural hair brushes I tend to hang them, mostly because of habit and not wanting a funky smell. With synthetics I tend to stand them, but mostly because I don't have enough stands.

I don't know how much it really matters providing you have done a good job cleaning the brush after use.

I guess the truth is that hanging a brush upside-down will not harm it, but leaving a wet brush to stand might...

There are other factors like air flow in the room, humidity and so on but let's not open that can of worms.

I open the shower door just enough to allow me to stick my arm in. Hold the brush and whip the devil out of it back and forth. Then set it on the counter, handle down. The brush is now dry enough, that any water left in the handle will dry through capillary action. Since I don't shave everyday, the brush has ample time to dry. If you were a daily shaver, and used the same brush, maybe hanging it would be the safest course of action.

This is one of those questions that I researched, became comfortable with the answer, then never cared to remember all I learned. It was probably on Badger & Blade that a fellow did a study, as scientifically as possible. From what I remember, there are advantages to standing it bristles up that I didn't expect. However, the general conclusions was that it didn't matter.

For me, I have one brush stand. The wet brush goes on the stand bristles down. At the end of the day, I stand it on its base with bristles up next to its brothers.

No matter which way you go it is your brush, I have done both, I now hang but that's because I have a carousel to hold all my brushes. It's for space. But for those of you who are new around here, Bill(Pixelfixed) did a test one time, he lathered and then at the end just set his brush down, never rinsed out all that precious Cella soap and just added and reused, not hanging it up. He did this for a few months. No adverse effects to the brush. Only thing he done after that was to clean the brush real good then started over again. I,m not suggesting this to do, but it does say you can abuse them more than most think, I personally like to clean mine and hang them. Tc

I rinse, squeeze out the excess water, put my arm in the show and whip up and down hard to shake out any left over water. Then strop it on a towel. Then sense im not fully dressed, (i do cover up the important parts while shaving ) i swing it down towards my bare leg a few times. If i get no drips hitting my leg then it stands on the shelf. By the time i get up in the morning, around 6 or 7 hours later it is dry as possible. So ive just left mine standing. As long as i get all the water out of it i can.
Now if 8 lived in a more humid area i might concider hanging but its pretty dry here on the flat lands of Colorado.

No, it does not.