Life span of silver tip badger brush

[Chandu]

Yes, true, I can totally agree with that.
My example happened within minutes with 190g/Lt, if I were to dilute that to 0.5g/Lt then rub it on my face and wash it off within 10 minutes but let it accumulate in my brush for twelve months? Deep down in that knot the hair is jambed together.
Human hair Depilatory creams etc eat hair, but only eat skin if left on too long? A case of some things are ok for certain times at certain concentrations.

Fair point if one used some harsh stuff near daily and did not do a good job of cleaning the brush.

 

[Chandu]

A case of some things are ok for certain times at certain concentrations.

Let me open another can o' worms. "Gelled" aka chemically abused tips. I can't believe they will last as long as non gelled.

 

[Darth Scandalous]

Let me open another can o' worms. "Gelled" aka chemically abused tips. I can't believe they will last as long as non gelled.

Oumo used to have charts with their various knots illustrating things like softness, backbone, etc, and one of the things they called out was service life. According to them, gelled tips don't last nearly as long. But I've seen no hard numbers as to how much less longevity they might have.

 

[DesertIguana]

Proper care extends life of most thing .
Abuse shortens life.

 

[BigJ]

Some of my brushes are 10-15 years old and still in terrific shape!!

 

[DesertIguana]

Some of my brushes are 10-15 years old and still in terrific shape!!

So how do you care for your Brush's to keep them in top notch shape?

 

[EclipseRedRing]

Let me open another can o' worms. "Gelled" aka chemically abused tips. I can't believe they will last as long as non gelled.

Let's hope not, I can't stand them To my mind 'gelling' is nothing more than a way to disguise an inferior product.

 

[Chandu]

Let's hope not, I can't stand them To my mind 'gelling' is nothing more than a way to disguise an inferior product.

100%

 

[Captain Coconut]

Here I go agin on lye ..... I love the stuff, drain cleaner, saponifyer[sp] it actually makes soap soapier

Well it is deadly to organics, so, one day i was cleaning a something with good old lye, looked at the tooling that hangs in my Laboratory, picked up an art paint brush, dipped it in the goop scrubbed away, dipped it several time and then everything felt like glue mixed with jello.
hmmmmm organic hair art brush, whoopsie, it's toast now, kerrching $1.20 in the bin.

Soaps have such big named ingredients this day and age, but the above has had me pondering, are certain soaps more detrimental to organic hair brushes than other soaps?

It's my understanding that this can only happen if there aren't enough ingredients in a soap for the lye to fully saponify, and so a superfatted soap by definition CANNOT have this problem. Amateur soaps with too much lye and not enough stearic acid can and do definitely have this problem (not uncommon for beginning soapmakers, who can sometimes end up with a product that makes the skin strangely slick due to the lye saponifying the lipids in it ), but I've never seen a shaving soap with this problem, and certainly not one from a reputable brand.

That only goes for the lye though, no idea about the other ingredients being harmful to a brush.

 

[nemo]

Amateur soaps with too much lye and not enough stearic acid can and do definitely have this problem (not uncommon for beginning soapmakers, who can sometimes end up with a product that makes the skin strangely slick due to the lye saponifying the lipids in it )

Don't get that slop anywhere near your eyes.

 

[Gecko45]

I think ive had my omega 599 drying for about 9 months now. Is it considered properly dried?