How to Clean Your Brushes

By Erin Nickelson

Intro

Have you ever considered how makeup can be a form of self-expression? Doing this self-expression is great, but dirty brushes can damage your look and carry disease and bacteria. So, how should one clean their brushes best? That is what this blog is about.

How Often to Clean Them

If you're like me it’s hard to find time but my brushes get so filled with the make-up I used days before that it’s harder to get the look I want. If all my eye brushes have brown eye-shadow on them then I will get brown on my eyes whether I like it or not. So this is how I handle it. I don’t put makeup on once I need to clean them until I have cleaned them. It’s recommended that they are cleaned once a week.

Don’t Make My Mistake

I took rubbing alcohol put some in a cup and soaked the brushes in the solution. This did two bad things. 1. It damaged the handles as the alcohol deteriorated the glue that held the brush and handles together. It also chipped off the paint on the handles. 2. Residual amounts of makeup remained on the brushes themselves. You can have this with other cleaning methods but this way has more residual than I prefer. Added to that the alcohol is too harsh for the brushes in general anyway.

What Does One Clean With

Rather than my foolish rubbing alcohol choice. Experts say that a mild soap like shampoo, or dish soap. Also, Avon sells a brush cleaner called fmg Express Makeup Brush WashThis will prevent what was happening to my brushes I destroyed them quickly. The glue that holds the brushes gets destroyed, and the paint on the handles falls off.

How to Clean Your Brushes

1. Wet the brush bristles.

I used my kitchen sink, any sink will do. It doesn’t need a lot of water just enough to get it wet.

2. Message soap on palm

           I put a drop of Dawn dish soap on each brush and rubbed the bristles on my palm.

3. Rinse

            Then it’s back to the sink and do step 1 again.

4. Squeeze dry and lay to finish drying

Squeeze the bristles between your fingers.

I noticed that the brushes dried in a few hours. This is much better than what I used to do.

Do you clean your brushes? How often? Are your methods working? Please comment below as I would love to get your feedback.

             

Products to Buy:

Fmg Express Makeup Brush Wash