The most tedious part of being beauty obsessed is deep cleaning my makeup brushes by far. The process takes forever. Whenever I'm out and I happen to purchase a new brush there is NEVER a little voice inside my head that reminds me that this will only make this torture longer.
It does however NEED to be done and often. Think about the surfaces your makeup brushes touch. I tend to lay mine down on the counter from time to time and I will be the first to admit that it's not spotless. I also drop them on the floor occasionally. But the surface I worry about the most is my face. I don't have perfect skin by any means and let's think about the process most people use to apply powder. You touch your brush into your powder then apply to to your face over the area that you have a breakout. Now the bacteria that is living in your pimple is now sitting in the bristles of your makeup brush. It now NEEDS to be cleaned.
These are the products needed:
*Dirty Makeup Brushes
*Antibacterial Dish Soap
*Olive Oil
*A Hand Towel
*Paper Towel Cardboard
*A Small Plate
Here's my collection of brushes:
I separate them into face brushes and eye brushes and store them in glass jars that used to contain Bath and Body Works candles.
Now let's get into the process.
First you need to lay out your hand towel so your brushes can dry. I place the paper towel cardboard underneath the hand towel at the halfway point.
Then I start the water in the sink. You want it to be a slow stream of lukewarm water. This temperature is the friendliest to the bristles of your brushes. You don't want a heavy stream of water because that could cause water to stream into the ferrule (the metal clamp that holds the bristles to the handle of the brush) and loosen the glue causing the bristles to fall out of your brush.
Now pour the dish soap onto your plate.
And surround the dish soap with a small amount of olive oil.
Take your dirty brush and get the bristles wet. Make sure you ALWAYS keep your brush pointed downwards to prevent water from creeping into the ferrule.
Dip your wet brush into the center of your soap,
And sweep it through the olive oil.
Now lather it up on your hand.
Rinse the brush out until the water runs clear. Rub it against your hand after the water runs clear to make sure you have rinsed out all the soap throughly.
Gently wring the excess water from the bristles and reshape them.
Lay it on your hand towel to dry with the handle on the paper towel cardboard. This angle will force the water down and out of the bristles.
Now repeat.
Check after a couple hours and reshape the bristles again. Let them dry overnight.
This is the method that I have been using for years. Many people choose to use baby shampoo. I feel that you need an anti-bacterial agent to throughly clean your brushes. With that being said soap alone can be very drying to the bristles, especially the natural hair bristles, so that's why I use olive oil as well. It conditions them nicely.
The entire process takes me about an hour but, I am also washing between 100-120 brushes. If I have a brush in my jar, such as a travel sized brush that I am confident I have not used I don't feel the need to wash it. It's still clean and I'll try to shorten this process if possible.
Brushes are definitely an investment and by caring for them properly you can increase their longevity.
I hope this post helped!
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