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Apply Soap and Massage (Water-based Paint)

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How to clean a paint brush

What happens here

Apply a small amount of dish soap directly to the wet bristles of the paint brush. Gently massage the soap into the bristles with your fingers, working it through from the tips to the ferrule. This helps to break down any remaining paint and thoroughly clean the brush fibers.

Goal: Deep clean the brush bristles with soap.

Tools and materials

  • Paint Brush — The item being cleaned
  • Dish Soap — Cleaning the paint from the bristles

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Be very gentle. You don't want to ruin any of your bristles. Lightly fan it out till I'm getting clear water. Take a little bit of dish soap. Put it on our brush and massage it on our bristles. Take your brass brush and just work it on your bristles. Take your brush comb and work all that soap inside of there. After you use your brush comb and your brass brush, just go ahead and rinse your paintbrush. Get all

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