January 2005

Grooma’s Style Is Superior

It topped synthetic brushes in shapes and sizes for every hand and need.

Brushes need to be effective and comfortable for the horse.

While brushes made with natural fibers or animal hair have been the standard for years, the choice of colors and ease of care have synthetic brushes finding their way into many grooming boxes.

Synthetic brushes come in a rainbow of colors. Bright colors also make it easier to locate your brushes in a hurry, or identify them if you board in a public stable and they get borrowed occasionally.

Most of the synthetic bristle brushes we tried did a good job. But they aren’t all equal. Plastic can be extruded in many strengths, lengths and in varying degrees of thickness, so some brushes had thick, stiff, straight bristles that tore through dried…