Save Your Face (and Your Brushes)!

It is majorly important that you keep your makeup brushes clean. You need to clean your brushes not only to reserve the quality of your brushes, but to preserve the health of your face. 

When you buy new brushes, from the store or online, the first thing you want to do is wash them. You want to purchase a brush shampoo. Do not use a spray for the initial cleaning. Sprays are for spot cleaning, meaning what you want to use if you are using the same brush for different colors of eye shadows, or if you will be seeing clients back to back and you don’t have time to deep clean your brushes and let them dry. Some people like to use baby shampoo, and although baby shampoo is perfectly fine to use on your brushes because of its gentle formula, it has no disinfecting properties and you want your brushes to be disinfected to prevent putting bacteria back on your own face or cross contaminating between clients. 

If you’d like some more details on how to clean your brushes or how to find a good shampoo or even make your own, leave me some comments or e-mail me and I’ll do a separate post for that. But the purpose of washing your brushes before initial use is to prevent breakouts and allergic reactions that can come from debris and particles that gather on the bristles from the manufacturer’s warehouse and shipping. Cosmetic companies get poor reviews and harsh comments the most from people who claim to be allergic to the products, when their skin is actually reacting to their lack of sanitation and lack of knowledge of the product and improper use of the products.