Cleaning Make Up Brushes

Hey lauratough!
I use my make-up brushes pretty heavily with not a lot of cleaning in between, and I have found that the best way to clean it (without breaking the bank) is the shampoo and hand method.
I usually use whatever shampoo that I have currently got in my shower (if I’m using expensive shampoo at that time I’ll wait it out until I’ve got something like herbal essences or garnier in my shower). The plainer, less fragranced the shampoo is the better, but it isn’t the end of the world if you use whatever shampoo you have available.
Then I get a tap running and wet the brush, smush a little bit of the shampoo into the brush and using circle motions on my hand, create a lather with the shampoo and rinse. The first couple of times the lather will come out your foundation or lipstick pigment colour, however soon the lather will become fluffy and white meaning your brush is clean!

Thank you so much beauties!!!

I have been looking for something that cleaned my brushes properly with damaging the bristles or making them too tough.

How long does it usually take to dry?

Baby wipes are amazing for cleaning everything I use them for my makeup brushes also great for cleaning walls without making them super wet

I use Dr Bonner’s Castile Liquid Soap and I picked up Models Prefer Pore Cleansing Pad from Priceline for $3.29 and use it as a dupe for all those expensive brush cleaning mats that Sigma and RT have come out with. It is small so I can only clean one brush at a time but it took me about 30 minutes to clean as many brushes and they are all super clean.

https://www.priceline.com.au/models-prefer-pore-cleansing-pad-1-ea

I use baby shampoo and warm water to clean my brushes I find that this gets all stains out hope this helps.

I’ve recently started using the Real Techniques brush cleaner which smells amazing and does such a good job of cleaning brushes. It’s about $12 on iHerb, little more expensive than your baby shampoo, but works wonders.

http://au.iherb.com/Real-Techniques-by-Samantha-Chapman-Deep-Cleansing-Gel-5-1-fl-oz-150-ml/64836

Also if you can get your hands on Daiso sponge cleaning your blending sponges will love you forever. I have never found it so easy to clean my sponges. Just massage a little into my sponge and then squeeze a few times under running water and my sponge is clean!!

I use a baby shampoo called gaia which cleans my brushes really well

I wash my brushes with Johnsons baby shampoo and I find it good!

I heared you can use shampoo and conditioner to clean your brushes. If nothing is working then perhaps you can try dying your brushes with colour.

This might sound a little weird, but I use a mild dish-washing detergent. Those things are made to cut through all types of stuff, they’re easily available and cheap, and they (can) smell really good too. It works really well for foundation, even if they’re oil free!. It’s always worked wonders for my brushes and they haven’t deteriorated at all from it. Hopefully that helps someone out there who doesn’t have money for expensive cleaners 🙂