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Degreasing A Deer Skull
Pathfinder101:
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--- Quote from: highside74 on December 08, 2025, 02:22:38 PM ---Are you going to bleach it?
We boiled ours in a cup of borax and some dawn dish soap for about an hour. We started to clean them after 30 or 40 minutes and kept putting them back in the water as needed to get everything cooked off. Let dry 24 hours then bleached them with 50v and quick white. Just enough quick white to thicken up the 50v. 50v can be ordered on Amazon without a beautician license. Brush it on and inside pretty heavy and cover with plastic wrap for 24 hrs to a week checking after 3 days to see if areas need more. I don't have a pic after the boil but this is after the whitening process. Decreasing completely isn't that big of deal.
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Those look good! I generally don’t bleach them, but this one I will. I have a 40 volume creme that I was going to try.
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If you're using the creme volume 40, it's ready. It's not going to turn white on it's own. I think you have leached it out as far as it's going to get. :tup:
RC:
--- Quote from: Antlershed on December 08, 2025, 02:23:42 PM ---I’ve only boiled/simmered two skulls in my life, so I’m no professional, but I put some Dawn dish soap, and some laundry detergent with Oxiclean in while they simmered. After two years, they are still whiter than the ones that I paid to have bugs/maceration do, and I didn’t have to worry about the antlers coming back missing all their natural color.
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Pretty close to what I do as well. I boil for an hour and a half in soapy water, then get the pressure washer going and clean it up that way. VERY messy, but gets the job done pretty quickly. Then, it's back in a new pot of boiling water with the salon 40 added, and cook it in there for 20-30 minutes. Comes out nice and white.
HikerHunter:
If your water is still murky after 1-2 days, then something still isn't clean. I'm with the suggestion to get your water hotter, not a boil, but hotter than the fish tank heater is getting it with the dish soap like you've been doing.
HUNTINCOUPLE:
Had same issue with one heater. Added another heater to bucket for masuration and degreaseing with dawn changing water once cloudy. The added heater expedited the process for sure.
TommyGun496:
If you're using the creme volume 40, it's ready. It's not going to turn white on it's own. I think you have leached it out as far as it's going to get. :tup:
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I will probably run it! I appreciate your (and everyone else’s) input. I am probably over thinking it. Just done a good amount of them in very similar manor and never had this issue. Probably could change things up a bit based off of a few of the reply’s here. Thanks fellas!
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