Making our own makeup has made for plenty of memories experimenting with different formulas. Of course every great invention couldn’t be made possible without many mistakes along the way. We wanted to share with you a homemade beauty recipe that has been very helpful in our makeup and weight loss journey.

Homemade Natural Makeup Brush Cleaner

A makeup brush cleaner should be an essential in every women’s makeup bag. Dirty makeup brushes lead to terrible things that can happen to your skin. 😯

This homemade natural makeup brush cleaner will leave your makeup brushes free of gunk!

What you’ll need:

• Your dirty makeup brushes
• 1 cup hot water
• 2 teaspoons distilled white vinegar

What you do:

1. Boil water for about 5 minutes
2. Pour into a glass jar or bowl
3. Add distilled white vinegar into boiling water and stir
4. Dip one brush at a time into the solution and swirl brush around gently against the bottom of the glass jar or bowl
5. Rinse under running hot water
6. Follow with a rinse of cold water
7. Re-shape bristles if necessary
8. Dry brushes flat on a paper towel or napkin

Although you are using smelly vinegar, it will come out after the rinses and drying process; usually within 20 minutes of drying. You may use more or less vinegar in this recipe if you desire, but we’ve found that two teaspoons have worked the best.

Another Homemade Natural Makeup Brush Cleaner

If you’re not a fan of vinegar (who is?) then this other homemade natural makeup brush cleaner might just be what you’re looking for. We’ve experimented with this one a lot and not to give away anything… it has a lot of the same properties our natural makeup brush cleaner has in our store, but we’re not giving away anything or anything. 😉

What you’ll need:

• Bottle or mason jar with cap/lid
• 1/2 cup witch hazel
• 2 teaspoons castile soap
• 1 teaspoon nourishing oil, like olive oil, almond oil or jojoba oil (optional)
• 1 cup distilled water

What you do:

1. In preferred container, combine ingredients in order of their listing above
2. Shake container

Viola! You have a homemade natural makeup brush cleaner at your finger tips. 😀 But now what!?

To use:

1. Shake bottle before every use (of course, if you just made it there’s no need to shake it again)
2. Pour some of the liquid into a bowl
3. Place the tips of dirty brushes in cleaner and swirl around
4. Rinse brushes with running water
5. Re-shape bristles if necessary
6. Dry brushes flat on a paper towel or napkin

The witch hazel and castile soap that this recipe calls for can be found at almost any retailer. We just included a link, so you know which ones we are talking about. Shop around for the needed products and if you’re thinking there’s no way you’ll use witch hazel again. Think again! There are many natural uses for witch hazel. We think every home should have it! 😎

Making your own homemade natural makeup brush cleaner, and actually using it, will benefit your skin in so many ways. We had a customer come into our store that said she never used a makeup brush cleaner a day in her life and we told her the effects of dirty brushes. Once we got to the point of putting her skin at risk of getting more wrinkles, she told us that she has been trying every anti-aging and anti-wrinkle cream such as Revitol’s formula and Vivacious Skin.

That’s right – dirty makeup brushes expose the skin to oxidative stress from free radicals, which causes a break down of collagen. 🙁

These homemade natural makeup brush cleaner recipes can be made in a batch and stored at room temperature. We recommend cleaning your makeup brushes at least once a week if you apply makeup everyday. Have you ever experienced anything bad from your makeup brushes when you didn’t clean them or do you have some tips on how to clean the brushes? Let us know in a comment below!

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