You may apply make-up regularly or occasionally. When you use the make-up brushes to either dust the compact or eyeshadow or blush or to apply the foundation, liner or lipstick you transfer the oil, dust and bacteria from your face to these brushes. Admit it girls- even after properly cleansing your skin, there is dust all around our place- they fly in via balcony doors or windows. And our skin does keep secreting oils beneath the surface. These make-up brushes can easily pick them up and our skin is a natural transition of many bacteria, they are quite useful in maintaining the pH of our skin and sometimes also protect us against various pathogenic micro-organisms.
According to experts make-up brushes should be cleaned every week. Even if you use them once or twice a week or every day.These bacteria feed on the secreted oil present on the brushes and grow in number, thereby contaminating the brushes, and when you use the same brush over and over again without washing you not only are further contaminating all your make-up products, but also harming your skin. If cleaning weekly isn’t something you can manage, then try cleaning once in 2 weeks.
DIY Makeup Brushes Cleanser
Here are few easy DIY methods to clean your ever favorite and helpful make-up brushes.
1. Your regular shampoo:
– Take the brushes and wet them thoroughly under running water, preferably warm water.
– Pour 2-3 drops of your shampoo on the wet bristles of the larger brushes and for smaller brushes a single drop would suffice.
– Now gently start massaging them onto your brush, but don’t try tugging out the bristles from the base of the brush. After massaging them, start brushing them on the back of your palm in a circular motion to evenly spread the shampoo.
– You can soak these brushes in warm water for few minutes, so that the oils and make-up that would have been remained in the core of the brushes could be removed.
– Then rinse properly under cool water. Be sure to rinse it completely until the water turns soap-free else the sodium present in the shampoo, could make the bristles rough.
-Use few drops of conditioner after rinsing to make the bristles soft and rinse with cold water properly.
– Tap the brushes lightly on a paper-towel or an absorbent sheet until all the excess water has been soaked and lay the brushes horizontally on a raised box or a towel, bristles towards outside to dry out the brushes completely.
2. Professional Make-up cleaner:
– Spray few mists of the makeup cleaner on to the brushes and swipe them until all of the makeup has been removed and the swipes no longer give out any color onto the paper towel.
3. Dish washing liquid + Olive Oil:
– Take a 2:1 ratio of Dish wash liquid and Olive oil onto a plate and gently start mixing the mixture with your brushes in a circular motion.
-Now swirl them on the back of your palm until no color is seen.
– Rinse them using warm water initially until all the remaining make-up color runs out, then slowly and gradually change the temperature from warm to Luke warm and then cold.
– Keep rinsing it properly. Then tap the excess water onto an absorbent paper.
– Shape the bristles and dry them by laying them horizontally on a raised platform with the bristles outwards.
By: Archa Dave
