ok... I'll go first!
Pixie was getting VERY dry skin... I thought it was the shampoo... I knew it was not the diet... I read about the "brush test", you take the brush your using now and run it over your forearm 100 times, like you were brushing your dog... and then take a look at your arm... Mine was torn up! No freaking wonder Pixie had dandruff and what appeared to be dry skin... It was more like damaged skin! Her brush was the real problem!
Tale it one step further... I am in the Jewelry business... I am good with a loupe, its a 10x magnifier.. I used it to look at the tips of my pin brush... It was like looking at little saw blades. They looked more like weapons of mass destruction than anything! And all this time i had been brushing her every morning and every night! And just think of the damage I was doing to her hair! those tips have very sharp jagged edges to them... Like fan blades. You just cant see it with your naked eye...
I'm not saying every brush is bad... But I looked at all 6 of my brushes and only one looked like I could use it until my new ones arrived... and even then, I used it as little as I could get away with!
When my CC Brush arrived... I unwrapped it and ran it across my arm, it was very soft. I pulled out my loupe and checked each pin.... they were so finely ground and polished, they were smooth like glass. the base of the brush was so flexable that the pins moved freely. when I used it in pixie for the first time, she was a bit knotted... I had been afraid to brush her all week with the old brushes... I was amazed at how the pins gave and did not pull on the coat, they really did glid through it! I did not feel like I was having to work at the knots, but that the pins were working on them as I was brushing... it was just a natural process... sounds silly, but its true, the base is so flexable that even the most delicate coat will not get damaged! and yet it is powerfull enough that it gets the job done!
Like I sad.. My own daughter (10 years old) uses the CC Gold Series 20mm brush... I keep asking her not to... explaining that her hair oil and the dogs is not the same... but she does not get it... all she knows is that the brush feels so much better than any other in the house, and all the other ones hurt her head! lol I have decided that I am ordering another brush for the girls when I order the slicker and I will pass this 20mm one to my daughter... Its wrong for the dogs to have a better brush than my human child.
Are you sold? I don't know...
I am! Pixies Dandruff is 100% GONE! There is absolutly no hair pulling when I brush her. I did not change her grooming products, food, or anything else... just her brush!
Best $32.00 I ever spent!
I'd get the comb too! Awesome for getting the eye boggies out!
lol