I personally like to clean down my work area to avoid getting germs into my brushes, I use a bleach spray and clean up the sink and surrounding areas that my brushes will be touching.
I lay a towel down for when my brushes are clean and ready to go! Make sure to fold up up side so that you can prop your clean damp brushes up, you don't want the water getting into the base of the brushes! All you need is some cool water, olive oil, and dish soap. You can substitute the dish soap for baby soap. I personally just use dish soap since I always have it on hand.
Mixing the ingredients isn't an exact science. However you do want to try to use equal amounts of olive oil and soap. I just eyeball it every time and it works out just fine. I'd say my ratio is somewhere around 2/4 cool water, 1/4 soap and 1/4 olive oil. I use the end of one of my brushes to very gently mix it together, you don't want to mix it too fast or you'll end up with a foamy mess!
Now dip your brush into the mixture to get the bristles wet, you can either scrub it in the palm of your hands, or if you have a cleaning pad like me, they work amazing! You can get them on eBay super cheap. I think I paid like $1 for mine with free shipping. Granted it did take awhile to come in mail but it was worth the wait for that price!
Now scrub, scrub, scrub and lather up the soap mixture and you'll be amazed how much makeup comes out of your brushes! It's actually kind of fun to watch all the junk come out of your brushes and see those beautiful clean bristles again!
Now rinse! Make sure to rinse thoroughly and get all the soap out!
You want to try to be gentle on your brushes, but you need to gentlyyyy sqqqqqqueeze out as much water as you can, I also then rub the brushes on the towel to try to get them as dry as possible.
MAKE SURE TO PROP THOSE ENDS UP! You do NOT want water sitting down inside the base. This will be really hard on your brushes and will end up ruining them in the long run. Prop those babies up so any water can run out.
Now keep on dipping and cleaning until you're done! You wont believe how clean and beautiful you're brushes are! They are like new! I always wash my oval brushes last because they have soooo many bristles they soak up quite a bit of the cleaning mix and they take a lot more scrubbing as well, all the bristles are wonderful for makeup application, but I wont lie, they are a pain in the butt to clean compared to standard brushes! I honestly don't do this as much as I should but man is it satisfying to see all your brushes like new and so soft again!
Good luck gals! Comment with you tips and tricks on how you wash your makeup brushes!
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