The first thing to do is to relieve the brush of all that dead hair, which you can do either by using a comb to sort of scrape it up and off the brush, or by using your hands to pull it out. The second biggest reason to clean a hairbrush: It's super easy. Still though, it's not a bad idea to clean a comb to rid it of product build-up. Timing-wise, once a month is a good goal to aim for, though you can certainly do your brush washing more or less frequently than that.Ĭombs are a little more forgiving, by dint of their design and the materials out of which they're made. This is especially true if you have dandruff, and for the dandruff-sufferers out there, I do have a tiny stricture-you're the group that should be cleaning your brush on the regular, so you're not compounding your problem by brushing old dandruff back into you hair. The biggest reason to clean a hairbrush is so that you're not brushing all that gunk through your hair every morning. They're formed from dead scalp, hair product build-up, the oils that occur naturally in your hair, and ambient dust. But you also might have seen small gray clumps clinging to the bristles like barnacles-those clumps are what we really need to talk about. Okay, you probably noticed a bunch of hair in there, which, fine. ![]() Go take a look at your hairbrush, or brushes. I promised you some reasons why you might want to clean a hairbrush and here they come: With that said, John's question is a great one because it's a thing many of us have probably wondered at some point or, if not, now that it's been posed it kinda makes you think, "Should I be doing that? Is it gross that this thing that I run through my hair every day, and that I have no earthly recollection of when I purchased it, has never been cleaned?" And today, we shall answer it. This column is not coming from a place of, "If you don't wash your hairbrush, you'll be doomed to a life of shame and regret." There are reasons that you may wish to do so! I'll go into some of them, of course, but also if you never, ever clean your hairbrush a day in your life, that is fine. I tell you that to tell you this: Today's column will address the cleaning of hairbrushes. The most stricture-y I get is when I talk about bed making, which is for sure a thing I think you ought to do, but even then the discussion is always tempered with, "But if you don't want to, don't." My podcast co-host is an avowed non-bed-maker, and I haven't fired him from the show for it. ![]() (Also, you don't "swab" a pumice stone to clean it, you boil it.)īut misinterpret my writing he did, and now is the time to address it: Strictures aren't really my thing. It was a funny bit, and I didn't particularly mind that he deliberately misinterpreted my writing to make a joke about the line we create for ourselves past which our cleaning behavior would be seen as obsessive. If I ever get to the point where I am found cleaning a pumice stone, I hope my wife will have pity and call in a drone strike." She will have you squeegeeing shower walls, vacuuming your bathroom floor every other day, cleaning the interior roof of your car and swabbing pumice stones. Kerr's strictures can go a bit far, at least for this semi-clean person. ![]() To begin, a brief story: When my book, My Boyfriend Barfed In My Handbag … And Other Things You Can't Ask Martha, came out, one reviewer took umbrage with my instructions on how one might go about cleaning a pumice stone. Is that bad? How bad? - John Hendrickson, Deputy Editor How often should you clean or replace your hair brush? I don't even know how long I've had my black Conair brush, and I've definitely never cleaned it. Are you still dirty? Subscribe to Ask a Clean Person: The Podcast on Acast, iTunes, or Stitcher, and like Ask a Clean Person on Facebook. She'll be here every week helping to answer your filthiest questions, and once a month she'll help Esquire staffers sort out their most vexing cleaning issues. Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist.
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