HOBBY HEAVEN
By Hobbyists. For Hobbyists.
BRUSH CLEANER SOAP
SOLID BRUSH CLEANER & CONDITIONER · 100 g
CLEAN.CONDITION.RESHAPE.
The last step of every painting session.
Good brushes rarely wear out. They get clogged.
Paint creeps up the bristles towards the ferrule, a little stays behind after every rinse, and a few weeks later the point that used to snap back starts to split. Water alone doesn't shift it. A proper wash at the end of the session does.
Our Brush Cleaner Soap is a 100 g solid soap in a matte black tin, with a textured silicone cleaning pad built into the lid. Lather it, work the brush across the pad, rinse, reshape. It lifts water-based paint out of the bristles, leaves them conditioned rather than stripped, and helps the tip dry back to its shape. One minute, every time you finish painting.
We sell kolinsky sable every day, our own series included. This is the soap we wanted to put next to them.
WHY IT EARNS ITS PLACE ON THE DESK
WHAT IT DOES
01
CLEANS
Lifts water-based acrylics, washes, inks, watercolour and gouache from the belly of the brush to the tip, including the paint a water rinse leaves behind.
02
CONDITIONS
A near-neutral formula (pH 7.8) with glycerin leaves a light conditioning film, so natural and synthetic hair stays supple instead of dry and brittle.
03
RESHAPES
Shape the tip with a thin film of lather and let it dry. It holds the point in place until you rinse it out before the next session.
04
CLEANING PAD IN THE LID
Turn the lid over and you have a textured silicone pad. It opens up the bristles and works the lather right through them, so paint comes out faster than on soap alone.
05
100 g, WIDE TIN
A full 100 g cake in a tin wide enough for drybrushes and flats, not only detail brushes. You use very little per wash, so it lasts.
06
NOTHING HIDDEN
Every ingredient is printed on the box and listed further down this page, together with a straight account of what the soap will not do.
BUILT-IN TEXTURED SILICONE PAD
MORE THAN A LID
Most brush soaps are a pot and nothing else. Here the lid is half the tool. The silicone pad inside it has three textures, and the soft ridges do the job your fingers would otherwise do: they part the bristles so the lather reaches the paint held in the middle of the brush.
WAVES
Long, shallow ridges. Draw a pointed brush backwards along them to work lather through without bending the tip.
SPIRAL
Fine rings in the centre. Small circles with light pressure for round brushes of any size.
DOTS
Raised studs for drybrushes, flats and larger brushes that can take a firmer scrub.
You will see the colour come out onto the white pad. When no new colour appears, the brush is clean. The pad rinses clean under the tap.
HOW TO USE
THE CLEANING RITUAL
01
WET
Wipe off excess paint, then wet the bristles with warm (not hot) water.
02
SWIRL & LATHER
Swirl gently on the soap until a lather forms. Pull the brush backwards as you go; never push the tip straight down into the cake.
03
WORK ACROSS THE PAD
Set the lid pad-up beside the tin and work the lathered brush over it. Light pressure for detail brushes, firmer for drybrushes. Rinse and repeat until the lather runs clear.
04
RESHAPE & DRY FLAT
Rinse clean, reshape the tip with your fingers and lay the brush flat to dry.
COMPATIBILITY
WHAT IT CLEANS
The rule is simple. If the paint is still wet, or it re-dissolves in water, the soap takes it out. If it has cured into a film, soap of any kind will not dissolve it.
✔ MADE FOR
• Water-based hobby and artist acrylics
• Washes, shades and one-coat paints
• Acrylic inks and airbrush-thin paints
• Metallic acrylics (allow extra cycles)
• Watercolour and gouache, wet or dried
• Water-based primer, varnish and PVA, while still wet
● THINNER FIRST, THEN SOAP
• Oil paints
• Enamels, oil and enamel washes
• Lacquers and acrylic lacquers
• Alcohol-based acrylics once they start to dry
Clean with the paint's own thinner, then use the soap to wash out the residue and recondition the hair.
✖ NOT FOR
• Acrylic that has fully cured, especially inside the ferrule
• Dried oil paint
• Superglue, epoxy, resin and putty
• Set masking fluid
• Airbrush parts
Brush types: natural hair (kolinsky, sable, squirrel, hog), synthetic, and drybrushes of any size.
SPECIFICATION
THE DETAILS
| Product | Hobby Heaven Brush Cleaner Soap – Solid Brush Cleaner & Conditioner |
| Net weight | 100 g |
| Form | Solid soap cake, cream-white |
| pH | 7.8 (near-neutral) |
| Container | Matte black metal screw-top tin, approx. 80 mm across |
| Cleaning pad | Textured silicone, fitted inside the lid (waves, spiral, dots) |
| Packaging | Matte black presentation box with hot-foil gold detailing |
| Use with | Acrylic, watercolour, gouache, ink |
| Brush types | Natural hair and synthetic |
| SKU | HHC-1001 |
| EAN | 5061001183135 |
| Made in | China, for Hobby Heaven Ltd, Derby, UK |
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
IN THE BOX
✔ 1 × Brush Cleaner Soap, 100 g, in a matte black screw-top tin
✔ Textured silicone cleaning pad, fitted in the lid
✔ Presentation box with instructions and full ingredient list
Brushes shown in the photos are for illustration and are not included.
FROM OUR BENCH
PRO TIPS
Shape and store. After the final rinse, pick up a little fresh lather, shape the tip to a point and leave it to dry. The film sets and holds the shape, much like the sizing a new brush arrives with. Rinse it out before you paint. It is the simplest way to coax a hooked or slightly splayed tip back into line.
Watch the lather, not the bristles. Coloured lather means paint is still coming out of the belly. Keep going until it runs white. Strong pigments can tint the hair itself; that is staining, not dirt, and it does no harm.
Metallics get a second pass. Metallic flake settles close to the ferrule. Give those brushes an extra cycle or two and squeeze the lather from ferrule to tip.
A stiff drybrush. If paint has only just started to dry, lather the brush and leave the lather in for a minute or two before working it on the pad. Repeat. Freshly dried paint often lets go; fully cured paint will not (see below).
New brush? Natural-hair brushes are shipped with the point set in gum. Rinse it out and give the brush one gentle wash before its first session.
Look after the tin. Rinse the soap surface and the pad after use and leave the tin open until both are dry. Closed wet, the top of the cake goes soft.
WORTH KNOWING
WHAT IT WON'T DO
It will not dissolve cured paint. Once acrylic has dried hard, and above all once it has set inside the ferrule, it is a plastic film that no soap removes. Soften it first with a dedicated brush restorer or a short dip in isopropyl alcohol (bristles only, keep it off the handle), then use this soap to wash out the residue and recondition the hair. A brush that is badly splayed from paint in the ferrule may never fully recover.
It is not a thinner. For oils, enamels and lacquers, clean with the correct thinner first and finish with the soap.
It is a brush cleaner, not a hand or skin soap. Wash your hands after use.
Rinse it out before painting. A film left in for storage is deliberate. A film left in while you paint will affect how the paint flows.
QUESTIONS WE EXPECT
FAQ
Is it suitable for kolinsky sable?
Yes. It is near-neutral (pH 7.8) and leaves a conditioning film. Use light pressure on the pad and let the lather do the work.
How often should I use it?
Rinse in water while you paint, soap at the end of every session, and a longer double wash after metallics or a heavy day.
The soap has picked up colour. Is that a problem?
No. Pigment on the surface of the cake is normal. Rinse the surface after use; it does not transfer to a clean brush.
How long does 100 g last?
We have not put a number on it and will not guess. Each wash takes only a thin layer from the surface, so for a typical hobby painter a tin is a long-term purchase rather than a consumable you reorder often.
Can I use washing-up liquid instead?
It will clean, but it is designed to strip grease, which includes the natural oils in animal hair, and it leaves nothing behind to condition the bristles or hold the point.
ON THE LABEL
INGREDIENTS & CARE
Ingredients: Sorbitol, Stearic Acid, Propylene Glycol, Glycerin, Aqua, Lauric Acid, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sucrose, Myristic Acid, Sodium Dodecyl Alcohol Ether Sulfate, Sodium Hydroxide. Contains 5–15% anionic surfactants.
Care: Avoid contact with eyes; if in eyes, rinse with water. Wash hands after use. Keep out of reach of children.
DELIVERY
SHIPPING
📦 Same-day dispatch on orders placed before 3 PM, Monday to Friday
📬 Sent by Royal Mail from Derby, in the middle of the UK network
🎁 Arrives in its presentation box, packed so the tin and box are protected
💳 Buying brushes or other items too? Postage is combined, and any overpayment is refunded when we pack your order
HOBBY HEAVEN
By Hobbyists. For Hobbyists.
A family-run hobby and art supplies business in Derby. We are authorised dealers for the brush makers painters rely on, and we have our own kolinsky sable series alongside them. This soap is our own-brand product, in packaging we designed in-house. If you have a question about it, message us and one of us will answer.
HOBBY HEAVEN
By Hobbyists. For Hobbyists.
BRUSH CLEANER SOAP
SOLID BRUSH CLEANER & CONDITIONER · 100 g
CLEAN.CONDITION.RESHAPE.
The last step of every painting session.
Good brushes rarely wear out. They get clogged.
Paint creeps up the bristles towards the ferrule, a little stays behind after every rinse, and a few weeks later the point that used to snap back starts to split. Water alone doesn't shift it. A proper wash at the end of the session does.
Our Brush Cleaner Soap is a 100 g solid soap in a matte black tin, with a textured silicone cleaning pad built into the lid. Lather it, work the brush across the pad, rinse, reshape. It lifts water-based paint out of the bristles, leaves them conditioned rather than stripped, and helps the tip dry back to its shape. One minute, every time you finish painting.
We sell kolinsky sable every day, our own series included. This is the soap we wanted to put next to them.
WHY IT EARNS ITS PLACE ON THE DESK
WHAT IT DOES
01
CLEANS
Lifts water-based acrylics, washes, inks, watercolour and gouache from the belly of the brush to the tip, including the paint a water rinse leaves behind.
02
CONDITIONS
A near-neutral formula (pH 7.8) with glycerin leaves a light conditioning film, so natural and synthetic hair stays supple instead of dry and brittle.
03
RESHAPES
Shape the tip with a thin film of lather and let it dry. It holds the point in place until you rinse it out before the next session.
04
CLEANING PAD IN THE LID
Turn the lid over and you have a textured silicone pad. It opens up the bristles and works the lather right through them, so paint comes out faster than on soap alone.
05
100 g, WIDE TIN
A full 100 g cake in a tin wide enough for drybrushes and flats, not only detail brushes. You use very little per wash, so it lasts.
06
NOTHING HIDDEN
Every ingredient is printed on the box and listed further down this page, together with a straight account of what the soap will not do.
BUILT-IN TEXTURED SILICONE PAD
MORE THAN A LID
Most brush soaps are a pot and nothing else. Here the lid is half the tool. The silicone pad inside it has three textures, and the soft ridges do the job your fingers would otherwise do: they part the bristles so the lather reaches the paint held in the middle of the brush.
WAVES
Long, shallow ridges. Draw a pointed brush backwards along them to work lather through without bending the tip.
SPIRAL
Fine rings in the centre. Small circles with light pressure for round brushes of any size.
DOTS
Raised studs for drybrushes, flats and larger brushes that can take a firmer scrub.
You will see the colour come out onto the white pad. When no new colour appears, the brush is clean. The pad rinses clean under the tap.
HOW TO USE
THE CLEANING RITUAL
01
WET
Wipe off excess paint, then wet the bristles with warm (not hot) water.
02
SWIRL & LATHER
Swirl gently on the soap until a lather forms. Pull the brush backwards as you go; never push the tip straight down into the cake.
03
WORK ACROSS THE PAD
Set the lid pad-up beside the tin and work the lathered brush over it. Light pressure for detail brushes, firmer for drybrushes. Rinse and repeat until the lather runs clear.
04
RESHAPE & DRY FLAT
Rinse clean, reshape the tip with your fingers and lay the brush flat to dry.
COMPATIBILITY
WHAT IT CLEANS
The rule is simple. If the paint is still wet, or it re-dissolves in water, the soap takes it out. If it has cured into a film, soap of any kind will not dissolve it.
✔ MADE FOR
• Water-based hobby and artist acrylics
• Washes, shades and one-coat paints
• Acrylic inks and airbrush-thin paints
• Metallic acrylics (allow extra cycles)
• Watercolour and gouache, wet or dried
• Water-based primer, varnish and PVA, while still wet
● THINNER FIRST, THEN SOAP
• Oil paints
• Enamels, oil and enamel washes
• Lacquers and acrylic lacquers
• Alcohol-based acrylics once they start to dry
Clean with the paint's own thinner, then use the soap to wash out the residue and recondition the hair.
✖ NOT FOR
• Acrylic that has fully cured, especially inside the ferrule
• Dried oil paint
• Superglue, epoxy, resin and putty
• Set masking fluid
• Airbrush parts
Brush types: natural hair (kolinsky, sable, squirrel, hog), synthetic, and drybrushes of any size.
SPECIFICATION
THE DETAILS
ProductHobby Heaven Brush Cleaner Soap – Solid Brush Cleaner & Conditioner
Net weight100 g
FormSolid soap cake, cream-white
pH7.8 (near-neutral)
ContainerMatte black metal screw-top tin, approx. 80 mm across
Cleaning padTextured silicone, fitted inside the lid (waves, spiral, dots)
PackagingMatte black presentation box with hot-foil gold detailing
Use withAcrylic, watercolour, gouache, ink
Brush typesNatural hair and synthetic
SKUHHC-1001
EAN5061001183135
Made inChina, for Hobby Heaven Ltd, Derby, UK
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
IN THE BOX
✔ 1 × Brush Cleaner Soap, 100 g, in a matte black screw-top tin
✔ Textured silicone cleaning pad, fitted in the lid
✔ Presentation box with instructions and full ingredient list
Brushes shown in the photos are for illustration and are not included.
FROM OUR BENCH
PRO TIPS
Shape and store. After the final rinse, pick up a little fresh lather, shape the tip to a point and leave it to dry. The film sets and holds the shape, much like the sizing a new brush arrives with. Rinse it out before you paint. It is the simplest way to coax a hooked or slightly splayed tip back into line.
Watch the lather, not the bristles. Coloured lather means paint is still coming out of the belly. Keep going until it runs white. Strong pigments can tint the hair itself; that is staining, not dirt, and it does no harm.
Metallics get a second pass. Metallic flake settles close to the ferrule. Give those brushes an extra cycle or two and squeeze the lather from ferrule to tip.
A stiff drybrush. If paint has only just started to dry, lather the brush and leave the lather in for a minute or two before working it on the pad. Repeat. Freshly dried paint often lets go; fully cured paint will not (see below).
New brush? Natural-hair brushes are shipped with the point set in gum. Rinse it out and give the brush one gentle wash before its first session.
Look after the tin. Rinse the soap surface and the pad after use and leave the tin open until both are dry. Closed wet, the top of the cake goes soft.
WORTH KNOWING
WHAT IT WON'T DO
It will not dissolve cured paint. Once acrylic has dried hard, and above all once it has set inside the ferrule, it is a plastic film that no soap removes. Soften it first with a dedicated brush restorer or a short dip in isopropyl alcohol (bristles only, keep it off the handle), then use this soap to wash out the residue and recondition the hair. A brush that is badly splayed from paint in the ferrule may never fully recover.
It is not a thinner. For oils, enamels and lacquers, clean with the correct thinner first and finish with the soap.
It is a brush cleaner, not a hand or skin soap. Wash your hands after use.
Rinse it out before painting. A film left in for storage is deliberate. A film left in while you paint will affect how the paint flows.
QUESTIONS WE EXPECT
FAQ
Is it suitable for kolinsky sable?
Yes. It is near-neutral (pH 7.8) and leaves a conditioning film. Use light pressure on the pad and let the lather do the work.
How often should I use it?
Rinse in water while you paint, soap at the end of every session, and a longer double wash after metallics or a heavy day.
The soap has picked up colour. Is that a problem?
No. Pigment on the surface of the cake is normal. Rinse the surface after use; it does not transfer to a clean brush.
How long does 100 g last?
We have not put a number on it and will not guess. Each wash takes only a thin layer from the surface, so for a typical hobby painter a tin is a long-term purchase rather than a consumable you reorder often.
Can I use washing-up liquid instead?
It will clean, but it is designed to strip grease, which includes the natural oils in animal hair, and it leaves nothing behind to condition the bristles or hold the point.
ON THE LABEL
INGREDIENTS & CARE
Ingredients: Sorbitol, Stearic Acid, Propylene Glycol, Glycerin, Aqua, Lauric Acid, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sucrose, Myristic Acid, Sodium Dodecyl Alcohol Ether Sulfate, Sodium Hydroxide. Contains 5–15% anionic surfactants.
Care: Avoid contact with eyes; if in eyes, rinse with water. Wash hands after use. Keep out of reach of children.
DELIVERY
SHIPPING
📦 Same-day dispatch on orders placed before 3 PM, Monday to Friday
📬 Sent by Royal Mail from Derby, in the middle of the UK network
🎁 Arrives in its presentation box, packed so the tin and box are protected
💳 Buying brushes or other items too? Postage is combined, and any overpayment is refunded when we pack your order
HOBBY HEAVEN
By Hobbyists. For Hobbyists.
A family-run hobby and art supplies business in Derby. We are authorised dealers for the brush makers painters rely on, and we have our own kolinsky sable series alongside them. This soap is our own-brand product, in packaging we designed in-house. If you have a question about it, message us and one of us will answer.
Specifications
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Brand
Hobby Heaven
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Item
Brushes
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Brush Type
Natural Hair, Synthetic
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Type
Brush Cleaner / Brush Soap
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Form
Solid
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Brush Shape
Round
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MPN
HHC-1001
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Features
Built-in Silicone Cleaning Pad, Conditioning, Screw-Top Tin
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Country of Origin
China
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Item Weight
100 g
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Suitable For
Acrylic, Watercolour, Gouache, Ink
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Colour
Cream
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EAN
5061001183135
