How To Clean A Beauty Blender Sponge

Oh, beauty blender! How did we live without y'all?

The apprehensive sponge has the ability to perfectly utilize our foundation, blend our concealer and smoothen on our serums, but how often practice yous make clean yours? 1 a month, if that? You may desire to sit for this revelation.

Co-ordinate to the makers of the much-loved sponge, you lot should be cleaning it after every single use. Gasp!

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Revealing how to employ and maintain the sponge, the founders shared the 'moisture.squeeze.bounce' method. This is how information technology works...
1. Wet: Wet the beauty blender with water.
2. Squeeze: Squeeze out the excess liquid, using a towel if available.
3. Bounce: Foundation, powder or any other complexion product across the face up for flawless results.
4. Cleanse: Later on each use to help maintain the integrity of the blender'southward exclusive material replace.

"Nosotros recommend replacing your beauty blender every three months," they added.

Anyone else going to be giving their beauty blender a expert old scrub tonight?

If you dearest quick-fix cleaning hacks, continue reading...

Nosotros are ALL about beauty hacks to brand our lives easier and our utensils cleaner and who better than the queen of make clean, Mrs Hinch herself, to teach us?

Mrs Hinch's followers begged her for a quick hack for thoroughly cleaning their beauty blenders and she came up with a pretty genius pick; all you lot need is a washing motorcar, a sock and a hairband.

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All you need to do is popular your muddy dazzler blenders inside a sock and necktie it up with a hairband and throw it in the washing machine with the residual of your wash load. Voila.

The earlier and after pictures speak for themselves, really...

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We too recently stumbled across an Amazing thread on Reddit near how to clean a beauty blender, we were ready to feel the aforementioned level of satisfaction that Dr Pimple Popper must experience on the daily.

Considering nosotros all know that no matter how much you make clean your blenders, they're never completely rest-gratis. And, of form, with all those terrifying videos of people cutting them in half to reveal all sorts of grime, we're keen to keep ours make clean. And then, what did the people of Reddit teach us?

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Yous tin can apply your microwave to make clean them. Come up again? User mtgrace wrote,

"Weirdest tip I've e'er heard - only actually does a pretty expert task"

"One-half fill a mug/loving cup with h2o and squirt some dish soap in! Pop in the beauty blender and put in the microwave for 1 minute. Actually gets a lot of the makeup out!"

"(Disclaimer to be careful when touching the blender when it's first come out of the microwave because it is boiling hot)."

ghostly_kitten agreed, saying that she uses this tactic, too:

"This is what I do too!"

"Pro tip: Don't forget it sitting in the microwave overnight. I did this once and it absorbed basically the entire mug of water and no matter how long I dried it out for, it never went back to a normal size. I accidentally DIYed a torso blende[r] earlier it was mainstream."

People were beside themselves with amazement and same, tbh.