Video: Re-Shaping Synthetic Brushes

You can restore most synthetic brushes with bent bristles by dipping the bristles in slightly cooled boiling water. The nylon fibers have "mem­ory" and will tend to return to their orig­i­nal shape when heated. This does not work with nat­ural hair brushes (such as, sable, mon­goose, hog bris­tle, and so forth).

Just sus­pend the tip of the brush in hot water for a minute or two. Don't leave it in too long as you will loosen the glue that holds the hairs in the ferrule. Pull it out and reshape it with your fin­gers if needed. Then let it dry with the bristle end up. This should extend the life of all but your most abused syn­thetic brushes.

Here is a video created by Lisa Gloria showing how this is done.

Length: 3 minutes