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post #16 of 25
3/4/10 at 5:28pm
Autoclave. Can't recommend that it'll come out looking the same.
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post #17 of 25
3/4/10 at 6:19pm
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Originally Posted by spencers View Post
Autoclave.

Can't recommend that it'll come out looking the same.

Good way to completely ruin a shaving brush that probably cost a hundred bucks.
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post #18 of 25
3/4/10 at 10:27pm
I believe that to lengthen the usability of your shaving brushes, wash the shaving brush after using and then let it air dry. It is much better if you have a shaving brush stand.
And do not let others use your shaving brush.
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post #19 of 25
3/4/10 at 11:02pm
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Good way to completely ruin a shaving brush that probably cost a hundred bucks.

Im pretty sure that was a joke

It would be funny if the OP went out and bought a $1000 autoclave and ruined his $12 tweezerman though
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post #20 of 25
3/5/10 at 12:53am
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Originally Posted by lionisme View Post
I believe that to lengthen the usability of your shaving brushes, wash the shaving brush after using and then let it air dry. It is much better if you have a shaving brush stand.
And do not let others use your shaving brush.

Yeah, I do want to get a stand. I am sure it helps to let it dry upside down to more water falls out.
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post #21 of 25
3/5/10 at 11:49am
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Yeah, I do want to get a stand. I am sure it helps to let it dry upside down to more water falls out.

not really, Water evaporates up. I don't think it matters either way as long as you shake it out.
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post #22 of 25
3/5/10 at 12:21pm
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Originally Posted by underwearer View Post
not really, Water evaporates up. I don't think it matters either way as long as you shake it out.

Water could built at the bottom of the bristles that might otherwise fall out if hung upside down.
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post #23 of 25
3/5/10 at 12:23pm
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not really, Water evaporates up. I don't think it matters either way as long as you shake it out.
Correct. Capillary action ensures that your brush will still dry just as well sitting on its base as it would hanging upside down on a stand. Shaking the brush after you use it, and lightly buffing against a towel is all you need to do. I have 3 brushes, and on cleaning day I clean all 3 at once. One gets hung, the others have to sit on their base to dry. Although I haven't timed it, when I come back to check on them a few hours later, all 3 brushes are bone dry.
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post #24 of 25
3/5/10 at 2:03pm
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Im pretty sure that was a joke
Indeed it was
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post #25 of 25
3/5/10 at 5:03pm
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Originally Posted by celticgent View Post
hopefully you bought a nice Badger brush.

If so, I wouldn't worry about it. Badgers are so badass that their hair has the natural ability to kill bacterium upon contact. You've seen what Badgers can do to snakes, imagine what they can do to smaller creatures.

They tried making shaving brushes out of honey badger hair but stopped after they found the lead scientist cowering in a corner with badger bite marks on his hands and face and the honey badger hair shaving brush smoking a cigarette in bed with his wife.
(I just wanted to post this video, the honey badger is bad to the bone)


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Originally Posted by Reggs View Post
I soak it in the same boiling water I use for a hot towel wrap, so pretty much every time right before my shave.

If your water is actually boiling you can mess up the glue that holds the bristles in the brush.
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