If you wear makeup, you need to know how to clean makeup brushes. If you don’t clean your make up brushes, you’ll either wind up spoiling them and throwing them away, or they will mess up your clean, fresh look by changing the colors of your makeup. Cleaning makeup brushes is a necessity. Each time you use a makeup brush, it picks up both makeup and any natural oils on your face, as well as any other products that are on your face. Makeup brushes come in all sorts of materials, with the cheapest usually being made of sponge or plastic and the most expensive some sort of animal hair.
High quality natural hair brushes used by professional models and painters are made of sable, and if you want a particular brush shape in an excellent quality brush, you can find them at art supply stores. Badger fur, pony hair and even squirrel hair are also used to make brushes.
Then there is the dust in the air that just lands on a resting brush. Bacteria can make a home in dirty makeup brushes, so this buildup must be removed on a regular basis. The most common method for how to clean makeup brushes include taking each brush and run it under warm water, and then apply a small amount of shampoo – you might want to use baby shampoo as this is extra sensitive, and gently rub until you have a soft lather. After a few minutes, run each brush under the cold tap and rub the bristles to get rid of the soap. When the water runs clear and isn’t colored from makeup, then you know the brushes are clean.
In order to know how to clean makeup brushes by a dry clean method then fill a plastic bag with corn starch (make sure it’s the sugar and preservative-free kind) and drop the brush inside (hair down) and hold the mouth of the bag closed. Shake for one minute and then remove the brush and then dust off the corn starch and repeat two more times until the entire greasy residue is gone.