Thread: Do you soak the entire brush?

I hear many razors.... they say."Buy me!" and too often I obey.

I fill my scuttle with hot tap water and stand my brush up in the center. I've never noticed how far the brush is underwater. Tomorrow morning I will take note.

After my shower, I dump everything out and just fill the bottom part of my scuttle so I can prep my lather.

Question though.... for those that fill the sink and let the scuttle and brush soak..... are you cleaning the sink every morning before your shave?! That just puts an added task into the prep work of shaving, doesn't it?

(I clean my bathroom once a week, by the way)

I turn on the hot water in the bathroom sink, hold brush under hot water & lay brush in the sink with water running. Hasn't hurt it, good quality badger brush. Doing this for a couple of years. Had a cheap brush that did fall apart once.

When I shave at home I stand the brush in a small cup and fill with very hot water. I fill this up to the level of the bristles and a little over the base of the knot. When I shave at the gym I put the whole brush into the basin, but the water there isn't very hot.

I don't think this should cause any problems because every brush I have, I have glued the knot in myself using water proof epoxy glue.

Well for the last year I've been using the same brush regularly, and I do just submerge the whole brush in a sick full of hot water along with the bowl I make my lather in. I has not adversely affected my brush

Geek

My brush floats :S

I get the water nice and hot, then pull the plunger to start the sink filling, put my big mug under the water, then put the brush in the mug. I usually "pump" the brush once to get the air out. The brush is mostly submerged as I let the water overflow the cup to fill the sink half way as well. I like to pre warm everything

I have a two year old brush. I don't make any special effort to clean, dry, or otherwise manage it. I use it, shake it dry and lay it horizontally on the quaich the soap resides to dry. The brush stays nice, dry, and it does'nt shed.

I usually place my brush in my scuttle, fill it with hot water and then place both in a sink of hot water. No ill effects on the brush to date.

After shaving I make sure to clean the soap/cream out of the brush, shake it dry and hang it--bristles facing down--in my brush stand.

I let my brush sit on top of a piece of soap, which sits in a mug of hot water before each shave. The water level varies, sometimes only the tips of the brush get wet, sometimes half the brush itself is underwater.

It has been this way for about 75 or 100 shaves with one brush and I haven't experienced any ill effects with it that I recognize so far