I am not going to get into the cleaning part of the skulls, because there are many ways. The three most popular are boiling, emancipation (letting it soak in water for several weeks, and the use of dermitide (flesh-eating)beetles which is my prefered method (because I have a colony). All three require the removal of the hide on the animals head before starting.
Here is a pic of the bugs starting in on a hog skull and finishing up a couple of deer skulls.


Use Dawn dishwashing soap to degrease the skulls in hot water. It may take 2-3 trys. Once the skulls have been degreased you are ready to bleach. For skulls without antlers alls you need is a plastic shoe box that is taller than the skull and 20% peroxide in the liquid form (not the paste) from the beauty supply store. Probably will need 2-3 gallons. Set the skull in the plastic container and then fill the container up past the top of the skull with the peroxide. This process can take anywhere from 2 days to a couple of weeks. Just make sure you check it everyday. Also, make sure you use plastic gloves when messing with the peroxide. Once it is as white as you would like, rinse of with a water house and let it sit outside and dry off.....
Here are some pics of a javi skull before it went into the peroxide.......

And a picture of a whitetail skull unbleached next to one bleached

And a pig soakin' in the peroxide. I like to use the smaller container for whitail skulls and the large container for skulls I can completely submerge......

The basic same steps apply for the deer skull, with a few exceptions. You need to wrap the horns with a plastic trash bag taping them off at the base of the horns so none of the peroxide can get on them. You will also need a gallon bottle of the highest peroxide paste you can get. I think it is either 30% or 40%. After degreasing, set the skull in the plastic container with the horns resting on the sides of the container. Add the 20% liquid peroxide to the container and allow it to fill up just under where the base of the horns are. If you go past that you will end up bleaching the horns. This is where the paste peroxide comes in handy along with a squirt bottle. Fill the squirt bottle up with the paste and then spray on any bone that is left exposed out of the liquid peroxide. I do this once a day until the skull is as bright white as I want it to be.
some finished products:
My drop tine from last year

My javi from my bachelor party

Bones Bobcat

Bones Bobcat and Hog

My 8 pointer mounted on Xspots plaque

My favorite Euro mount that I have done

I also recommend that when you are done bleaching and are not going to use the peroxide for a while to put it back in the gallon container for storage. This will help keep it from evaporating.
List of items needed:
1. plastic shoe box
2. 2-3 gallons of 20% liquid peroxide
3. 1 gallon of 30% or 40% paste peroxide
4. squirt bottle
5. Rubber/Vinyl gloves
6. Funnel (serves two purposes, 1. to get the paste peroxide into the squirt bottle and 2. to get the left over liquid peroxide back into the gallon jugs.)
Here is a picture of the peroxides that I use

I hope this helps those of you that want to save money an get the satisfaction of Doing It Yourself......Please PM if you have any questions.
Here is a pic of the bugs starting in on a hog skull and finishing up a couple of deer skulls.


Use Dawn dishwashing soap to degrease the skulls in hot water. It may take 2-3 trys. Once the skulls have been degreased you are ready to bleach. For skulls without antlers alls you need is a plastic shoe box that is taller than the skull and 20% peroxide in the liquid form (not the paste) from the beauty supply store. Probably will need 2-3 gallons. Set the skull in the plastic container and then fill the container up past the top of the skull with the peroxide. This process can take anywhere from 2 days to a couple of weeks. Just make sure you check it everyday. Also, make sure you use plastic gloves when messing with the peroxide. Once it is as white as you would like, rinse of with a water house and let it sit outside and dry off.....
Here are some pics of a javi skull before it went into the peroxide.......

And a picture of a whitetail skull unbleached next to one bleached

And a pig soakin' in the peroxide. I like to use the smaller container for whitail skulls and the large container for skulls I can completely submerge......

The basic same steps apply for the deer skull, with a few exceptions. You need to wrap the horns with a plastic trash bag taping them off at the base of the horns so none of the peroxide can get on them. You will also need a gallon bottle of the highest peroxide paste you can get. I think it is either 30% or 40%. After degreasing, set the skull in the plastic container with the horns resting on the sides of the container. Add the 20% liquid peroxide to the container and allow it to fill up just under where the base of the horns are. If you go past that you will end up bleaching the horns. This is where the paste peroxide comes in handy along with a squirt bottle. Fill the squirt bottle up with the paste and then spray on any bone that is left exposed out of the liquid peroxide. I do this once a day until the skull is as bright white as I want it to be.
some finished products:
My drop tine from last year

My javi from my bachelor party

Bones Bobcat

Bones Bobcat and Hog

My 8 pointer mounted on Xspots plaque

My favorite Euro mount that I have done

I also recommend that when you are done bleaching and are not going to use the peroxide for a while to put it back in the gallon container for storage. This will help keep it from evaporating.
List of items needed:
1. plastic shoe box
2. 2-3 gallons of 20% liquid peroxide
3. 1 gallon of 30% or 40% paste peroxide
4. squirt bottle
5. Rubber/Vinyl gloves
6. Funnel (serves two purposes, 1. to get the paste peroxide into the squirt bottle and 2. to get the left over liquid peroxide back into the gallon jugs.)
Here is a picture of the peroxides that I use

I hope this helps those of you that want to save money an get the satisfaction of Doing It Yourself......Please PM if you have any questions.
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