Horse Hair Brush - LargeLuxurious wooden horsehair brush. Horsehair is soft and therefore ideal for brushing off leather shoes, as it leaves no scratches on the leather surface behind. This brush should only be used to brush off the shoe cream which has been applied with either a cloth or a smaller shoe polishing brush. This brush has a melange of both light and darker hairs, thus making it ideal to use on both light and darker colored shoes.