Keeping your makeup brushes clean is one of the best ways you can take care of your skin. When you don’t, you’re allowing all sorts of nasty bacteria to collect on your tools. Usually, the generally accepted suggestion is to clean your brushes once a week (or as needed) and your beauty sponges around every 2-3 uses or so.
If you’re really worried about bacteria on your sponge, you can clean it every use no problem. With brushes, there’s usually no need to clean them every use unless you’re using bright eyeshadow that’s still inside the bristles and will mess up future looks.
Tools Needed
To get your makeup brushes clean again, you’ll need a few things: but nothing you won’t find around the house.
- Dish soap, such as Dawn
- A clean hand towel
- A hanger (or two, depending on how many brushes you have)
- Some hairties, tape, or string
You can get all sorts of special tools, soaps, etc. but this is all you really need.
Cleaning Your Brushes
The best thing to do is dampen the bristles in warm water.
Then put some soap in the palm of your hand and scrub the bristles in the soap under the running water. You can get a brush cleaner for this step, just put the soap on the cleaner itself and scrub the brush with that.
Rinse and check to see if the bristles are clean. If not, then scrub it again.
Lay the brush on the towel and pat the bristles somewhat dry.
Once you’ve washed all of your brushes, take a hanger and put it somewhere out of the way like on the shower curtain rod. Use the hairties or tape to secure the brushes on the hanger, bristles down. This will make certain that the brushes dry completely!
Cleaning Your Beauty Sponge
When you clean your beauty sponge, soak it in warm water to start.
Then pour dish soap directly on the areas where you have makeup sitting on the sponge.
Scrub it against your hand until the makeup disappears!
Repeat on all areas where there’s makeup sitting.
Rinse out well and allow to dry in a well ventilated place on a hand towel!
I hope this helps you guys get all of your makeup tools clean and new looking again. Make sure you make time to clean everything regularly!
Mugs and Makeup 