only_me
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How do you do it? And how often do you do it? 
Cleaning a grooming kit
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ThePony
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Leave it soaking in a bucket of soapy water, just when it's dirty! I am a bit uptight about cleaning things each time I use them so the brushes don't get dirty so I don't wash it v often - maybe once or twice a year tops?
Bangagin
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How? For a proper clean I bring it all home and slosh it around in the kitchen sink filled with hot water and anti bacterial washing up liquid. Then in between proper cleans I empty out my grooming kit tray and wipe it out with a baby wipe and then give the brushes a clean with the curry comb and everything else a wipe over.
Sometimes on a sunny day I will give the odd brush a slosh in a bucket of clean cold water and leave to dry in the sun.
How often? When ever it looks very dirty, but probably about twice a year I reckon.
Sometimes on a sunny day I will give the odd brush a slosh in a bucket of clean cold water and leave to dry in the sun.
How often? When ever it looks very dirty, but probably about twice a year I reckon.
MerrySherryRider
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Mine get done spring and autumn, or if I'm moving to a new yard.
Rinse tack boxes out and fill with warm soapy water. Bristle brushes get baby shampoo.
Slosh around, rub brushes together to get dirt out, soak combs and plastic/metal kit, etc in dettol. Empty box and refill with water from yard tap a few times, shake off and leave brushes to dry in the sunshine. Turn tack boxes upside down to drain and dry.
Job done.
Rinse tack boxes out and fill with warm soapy water. Bristle brushes get baby shampoo.
Slosh around, rub brushes together to get dirt out, soak combs and plastic/metal kit, etc in dettol. Empty box and refill with water from yard tap a few times, shake off and leave brushes to dry in the sunshine. Turn tack boxes upside down to drain and dry.
Job done.
blood_magik
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i soak mine in a bucket of hit water with a good squirt of his shampoo then rinse and leave to dry
I tried putting them in the washing machine but one of my brushes fell apart
I do mine every few months
I tried putting them in the washing machine but one of my brushes fell apart
I do mine every few months
catkin
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In summer I wash the brushes in horse shampoo when the horses are bathed and leave to dry in the sun. Rest of the year, wash when they are getting grubby and the dust isn't coming out when they are cleaned on a currycomb. I have a couple of spare brushes if the washed ones aren't quite dry when the horse needs them next.
Fosterdown
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put them in the washing machine on a cool wash, not leather backed or natural hair brushes, but everything else. they come up really clean
Enfys
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You are meant to clean them?
Joking. Kind of, I sling them in a bucket of dog anti-everything shampoo, rinse etc if they are particularly icky. I only use rubber curries and body brushes anyway. Mane and tail brushes just get ditched, I buy a dozen or so bog standard hairbrushes a year from the dollar store. I never use dandy brushes or those silly plastic combs and have a big bag of them sat in the tackroom along with the hated hoofpicks with the brush on them.
I tend to get given sets at Christmas so I throw the old ones out.
Joking. Kind of, I sling them in a bucket of dog anti-everything shampoo, rinse etc if they are particularly icky. I only use rubber curries and body brushes anyway. Mane and tail brushes just get ditched, I buy a dozen or so bog standard hairbrushes a year from the dollar store. I never use dandy brushes or those silly plastic combs and have a big bag of them sat in the tackroom along with the hated hoofpicks with the brush on them. I tend to get given sets at Christmas so I throw the old ones out.
VioletStripe
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I usually shove them in a bucket with hot water and either hibiscrub or baby shampoo. Leave it in there for a bit, then rinse thoroughly. Only do it when it's looking really grimy, or if someone has borrowed my brushes. Usually happens every few months xx
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jesterfaerie
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I use hot water and hibiscrub or dettol, something anti-bacterial. Ill first try get most of the grease off using a curry comb, then leave them to soak in the water and hibiscrub then rinse them under running water, using a curry comb to get all the suds and any grease left in the brushes. Rinse the bucket out leave the brushes to dry and pop them all back in the bucket.