What's the best brush for dry skin?

Good rabbit brush that is soft on the skin but picks up a lot of the shedding hairs?

• I have 2 rabbits; one sheds bunches, & the other one just sheds a few hairs. I'm looking for a good brush that is soft/feels good on the rabbits skin, & at the same time picks up a lot of the hair that is shedding. It doesn't just have to be a rabbit brush, it can be a cat or a dog brush. Whatever will work & is soft on the skin is perfect! Please add a link if you can. Thank you! :D

• Answer:

  Unless you have a wool breed (long hair over an inch long). The best brush is no brush at all. You may now be thinking: "What?!" Hold on, I'll explain. You'll need to get a few things: 1. Have a table ready to set your rabbit on. 2. Go to a carpet store and pick up one of those sample carpets. You likely can get several old ones from them for free. Or many rabbit product sellers will sell them for a dollar or so each. 3. Get a small bowl of water, a small spray bottle or a wet rag. 4. Have a trash can ready. Take your carpet pad and place it on the table. Then place your rabbit on the carpet pad. Then lightly wet your hands by dipping the tip of your hand into the bowl of water and rubbing your hands together or by lightly misting your hands or by grabbing the wet cloth with your hands. You want lightly wet hands, not overly wet hands. Then rub your hands across the rabbit starting at the back of the neck and working your way to the tail. Every once in a while you can rub your hands in the opposite direction, but you don't want to do that too often. The loose hair will stick to your hands. Once a good amount of hair has built up n your hands, rub them together over the trash can and the hair will fall right into the trash can. Then rub your rabbit a little more. Rub your rabbit like this for about a minute or until the hair starts to look slightly spiky and wet. At that point stop, because you're done for the day. Brushes break the hair follicles and are rough on the rabbit's skin. Brushes also pull out hair follicles that aren't loose. By using the technique I described you don't hurt the rabbit's skin. And you also only remove the loose hairs. And you avoid breaking hair follicles. It's the best method to use and one you'll see people that show rabbits doing quite regularly. I'd do that for about 1 minute once a day. And the fur should start looking better. You may want to have the one that sheds bunches treated for fur mites especially if you see what looks like dandruff. Dandruff is a sure sign of fur mites in rabbits and fur mites will make your rabbit shed tons in big clumps.