Ebony Hair Brushes
Dear Aunt Daisy, Do you or any of your listeners know how to treat ebony hair brushes? My husband’s brushes are becoming dry and developing crecks, and we have been wondering whether to use some type of oil on the wood. I would be pleased if you could reply to my query through your column in The Listener as unfortunately we are not often able to hear your programmes in Kaitaia due to annoying local telenhones.
M. C.
K.
Kaitaia.
I hore someone may be able to help with this. 1 only know that hair brushes with wooden backs should have these smeared with a little veseline before washing, to protect them from the water; and, of course, you are very careful to just kold the brushes in your hand and shake the bristles up and down in the warm water well sottened with best housekald ammonia, scraping through and through with a sonib. The dirt simply falls out! Fineily, rinse well under cold tap, still holding the back in your hand, so that it gets as little wet as possible, Then stand the brush
on end, in a window-sill or other airy place, having first shaken out as much water as possible and dried the back with a towel.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 767, 2 April 1954, Page 22
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213Ebony Hair Brushes New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 767, 2 April 1954, Page 22
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