How to Clean Hair Brushes With Vinegar
If you’re experiencing tons of hair fall and greasiness, your first course of action should be to clean your hair brushes.
Follow along to learn how to clean hair brushes with vinegar.
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Tools and materials:
- Hair brush
- Sink
- Hot water
- Shampoo
- Baking soda
- Vinegar
- Toothbrush or teasing comb
1. Remove hair from the brush
Start by physically removing the hair from the bristles. You can use a pointed tool or a closed pair of thin scissors to help you.
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2. Add ingredients to hot water in the sink
Plug your sink and fill it with hot water, a few squirts of shampoo, baking soda and vinegar.
3. Soak your brushes
Grab your brushes and let them soak in the sink for about 10 minutes.
For wood and bamboo brushes:
Note that not all of your brushes should be soaked!
Porous materials like wood and bamboo should not be submerged in water.
In this case, sprinkle baking soda directly on the brushes while holding them over the sink.
Then pour the vinegar onto the bristles only.
Then take a toothbrush or a teasing brush and give it a very solid scrub.
Next, rinse it in hot water.
After 10 minutes of soaking the other brushes, scrub the bristle area with the same toothbrush or teasing comb.
Then rinse with clean, hot water.
Let the brushes air dry on a towel and that’s it!
How to clean hair brushes with vinegar
All you need are a few household items to clean your hair brushes with vinegar.
Try out this brush cleaning hack and your hair and scalp will be happier and healthier!
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In actuality, vinegar and baking soda combined are NOT extra powerful but rather much *less*! When combined they actually *neutralize* each other, essentially *canceling out* their individual cleaning power, so while the foaming action we see when these two are mixed, looks appealing, it is actually deceiving. It is not a powerful cleaning combination at all. Using either one or the other (vinegar OR baking soda) is best. In all reality, good old “elbow grease” (good scrubbing) with shampoo and water clean the brushes just as well.
Sorry Mar114443302, go back and read her instructions. She said to add shampoo, baking soda and vinegar to the sink and then soak brushes.