How To Clean Natural Hair Paint Brushes

Massage the bristles with your fingers and bend them back and forth to loosen any remaining paint.

How to clean natural hair paint brushes. Purists may not want to do this especially with natural bristle brushes but a quick cleaning with water won t damage the bristles. Ask this old house painter mauro henrique demonstrates the most effective way to clean a paintbrushsubscribe to this old house. But there is no problem washing these brushes and you really have to if you re going to store the brush because its the only way to get all the residual finish out of the brush. This step is crucial if you re a makeup artist or have oily acne prone skin. Make sure to wear gloves while rinsing your brush in the brush cleaner.

Clean the brush in a bucket of soapy water use laundry or dish soap. In this 8 47 video i show you how to properly disinfect your brushes at home so you are free from germs and your tools will look just like new. Spot clean with a no rinse spray cleanser such as beautysoclean conditioning brush spray. 9 wash the brush with warm soapy water. Fine natural hair is not very porous so it should release pigment easily.

All types of bristles can be washed in water. Wipe off any excess product onto a microfiber towel. Work the bristles for only one minute. You want as little paint as possible still on your brush for a faster cleaning in the solvent. Natural bristles don t hold their spring for very long in water so they don t work well with water based products.

Keep them clean and conditioned between uses with these tips. Remove as much paint as your can from your paint brush by brushing it along an old rag or paper towel. Wipe excess oil paint from the brush with a soho wipe or cotton rag and then clean the residual pigment out of the brush in a brush washer filled with solvent or mineral spirits.