Thread: Horse hair neck brush

I've had an odd request.....
A hair dresser wants me to make a neck brush.
I'm thinking I can get the horse hair, but what about sterilizing the horse hair?

Does it need sterilized?

And how...

Boil it?
Just wash it?
Give it the stink eye?

I'm asking this because everywhere I've found horse hair it doesn't state that it's been sterilized some say they've been cleaned. This would come in contact with people of course, should I even be concerned?

Wash it with shampoo and a scented conditioner to get the horse stink out of it.

I made a brush for a gay guy in san fran out of skunk tail hair,do what needs to be done.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

I made a brush for a gay guy in san fran out of skunk tail hair,do what needs to be done.

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I used to own a few horses so here is what I know. Get hair from the neck ! I can not stress how gross the thought of the other end is. At least tell your client that it came from there. Really though, just think about how you would do it to your own hair. I mean say you got drunk and fell head first into some horse poo. Hot water and shampoo. I used Dawn dish soap on my horse tails and it got stains out of white tails and made em smell a lot better. I think the dish soap is stronger than shampoo and leaves the hair softer. Sterilize....hmmmmm Hot water would be as far as I would go without experimenting with some extra samples. Boiling would kill anything living in it but not sure how long and what it would do. That would be my first experiment though. Bleach ? Ask a woman about that, probably a blonde one. Diluted in water it would kill germs and make the hair white. Maybe it comes sterile ? Ask Tandy they sell it for dressing up leather Indian garments and such. It's just a neck brush right ? How sterile does it have to be. Ask the client if she does it between customers. Stop me before I get back to joking around...... :<0)

I think I would buy some processed hair that was sterilized commercially. If you do it yourself and there are bugs left, well you know what can happen.

Think you will find horsehair will be to floppy.Neck brushes were made mostly of boar bristle.
The monster display brush in the pic I made from 4 cheap Boar Bristle paint brushes.

I have a question. Where did you get the (presumably) faux ivory you used on some of those handles? Inquiring minds and all.

Originally Posted by irish19

I have a question. Where did you get the (presumably) faux ivory you used on some of those handles? Inquiring minds and all.

I do not deal in faux Ivory my friend

Skunk?! awl man........there's one on the road right now.........a little ripe, but I'm sure it's all good