Well, the brush cleaning quest continues.
And this time I've found a soap,
thanks to a tip from one of my South African viewers.
It's a traditional farm soap made
from an age-old recipe, and I'm going to try it out and see how
well it can handle cleaning my oil painting brushes.
Let's have a look.
And this is the soap we're looking at.
It's called Ouma Hanna se Boerseep, and that means Grandma Hanna's Farm soap.
Or farmer's Soap.
It's a traditional recipe, 100 % natural and non-toxic.
Well, I love traditional products,
especially when they're made by a small family business like this.
I encourage you to have a look at the website and read the story.
It's fascinating.
It's also very encouraging and so positive as well.
Well, they have a range of soap products
and I'm going to be trying the farm soap for paint brushes.
I'm not sure if this may be the first
YouTube video demonstrating this product for paint brushes,
but on the label there's a whole range of things that the soap will clean.
But I also note there, it'll clean fat and that makes me think
it'll be good for oil paint brushes because of course, linseed oil is a fat
and even can be used as a body soap as well.
And what about a dirty brush like this?
Well, we'll find out.
So let's get the wrapper off.
I'm going to take this off and put this soap to the test.
I'm confident the soap
will actually work quite well, but we must have a look and see what it's like.
I also want to make sure the brush as well is handled gently.
So let's get a dirty brush and
I've got a little bit of water on the cake of soap just to get it going.
Moving the brush back and forth, you can see the paint already coming off.
And these brushes were used a couple
of days ago, so the paint has already firmed up.
A little bit more water on the brush
to really get the paint working amongst the bristles.
And look at that.
The paint's coming off pretty well.
Let's just dry that off and I can already see that brush looks pretty clean.
As you can see, no paint coming off the bristles there.
So that's a good job.
I'll give that five stars so far.
Let's get the next brush.
This has got a lot of paint on it and really a nasty-looking brush.
Let's get some more water on and we can
see the paint just coming off very easily indeed.
Now that the cake of soap is
sufficiently wet, the soap is getting into those bristles very easily indeed.
Now let's rinse that off.
I can see with the color of the water and it's already looking quite clean.
Very a little bit of paint left right,
perhaps in the bristles there near the ferrule.
I'm going to clean this off.
I think I should just get the cloth and just give that a wipe off and give it
one more clean and see all that paint within the bristles coming out as well.
Yeah, that's looking like an excellent job.
Just wipe off the cake of soap from time to time and there we go.
Look at that. All clean.
Finally, my little rigger brush. No problem.
Just a little dab on the cake of soap and it's also cleaned off.
So good job all round.
I think that's a successful result.
Well, I think Ouma Hanna's Boerseep or
Granny Hanna's Farm Soap did a very good job.
I might make this a permanent part
of my studio because it's quite cheap, and I think it's going to last a long time.
Okay, well, send me tips on what your favorite brush cleaning medium is,
and I'd like to give that a try and see how well it works.
Until next time, enjoy your painting, and cheers for now.