How To Clean Your Make Up Brushes At Home

If you apply makeup on a daily basis, your brushes will become dirty very quickly. It is recommended that you clean your brushes once a week. If you're like me, you'll want to do this with a cheaper alternative to an actual makeup brush cleaner, as they can tend to be quite expensive.
Here is how I do mine. You may do yours differently and certainly people do theirs using alternative products or using different methods. I just thought I would share how I have been doing mine for the past few years with products everybody has at home.


So as you can see, I have been using my Techniques Stippling brush all week and now it has discoloured. I am using this as an example but you can use this method with any makeup brush.

To start off you will need a clean bowl with a product to clean the brush with. I am using a basic cream handwash from Tesco. The reason I am using this over a soap bar is because this is soap free and is also moisturising, which stops your brushes becoming sticky and stiff. You can also use baby shampoos or very simple shampoos. As long as they are not heavily perfumed or filled with a load of chemicals you are fine. I use this particular hand wash because it isn't perfumed.

You will want to first add some of your wash to the bowl. With my hand wash I use one pump, or squeeze. You don't want too much.

Next, add some luke warm water to the bowl, filling it up by just over a quarter, going on a third depending on the bowl and how much wash product you have added. Mix this around so that the water slightly bubbles.

Dip your brush into the water, making sure to keep your brush top downwards at all times. Try as much as you can to avoid having your brush upright at any point during this process as you want to avoid getting water down into the handle area. Work the water into the bristles as much as you can, as if you were washing a little hamster's hair.

Next, place the brush down on it's side whilst you clean out the water and bowl, replacing it with luke warm clean water. Dip your brush in, again remembering to keep it vertical. Make sure all of the product is cleaned out of the brush. You can do this several times until the brush produces no bubbles or dirty water.

Next is optional. What I like to do after washing my brushes is to brush through them, to make sure there are no loose hair and it make sure they all dry loose and to help it dry back into the shape it originally was. For this you can use a comb or, as I use, a flea comb which you can get from any Chemist, drugstore, supermarket or pet store.

With this I then carefully, (be careful not to be too harsh) glide this through the brush to separate all the hairs and try and brush it back into it's shape.

And here is the result, a lovely clean brush again as good as new.

Now you need to leave it to dry before it's next use. Leave it to dry horizontally on a paper towel.