Carrie and I recently embarked on a project to clean our hairbrushes. They both had acquired a great deal of lint-like stuff on the bristles. Carrie’s hairbrush was so bad that it was actually difficult to brush our hair with it!
I did some quick searching online and found several methods of cleaning hairbrushes. We combined several of them with great results.
Before
First, we pulled all the excess hair out of the brush.
Second, we filled the kitchen sink with warm water and a bit of shampoo. We let the brushes soak in the water for fifteen minutes.
After this first soak, I was very impressed with how much gunk came off my brush . . . impressed and disgusted. The water was turning a gray color!
Third, we filled the sink with warm water again, 1/2 cup of baking soda, and 10 drops of Thieves essential oil. Again we let it soak for fifteen minutes.
After
After this, more and more gunk and lint came off my hairbrush. My brush ended up being just as good as new. Carrie’s brush needed more attention because it had built up lint over a long period of time.
I would highly recommend doing this simple clean on your brush regularly to avoid the grimy, yucky buildup we had on our brushes.
As the week approached when I was planning to record each dinner I made for my family, God had a different plan. (I ended up spending the majority of that week on the road helping my sister and her husband move from California to Nebraska. 
