What if you’ve always been cleaning your makeup sponge incorrectly? This is certainly the case according to a dermatologist who revealed the right way to do it and the actual frequency with which it is essential to do it to maintain beautiful skin.
There’s no point in having an ideal beauty routine for your skin type if you don’t take care to clean accessories regularly that you use every day on your face to apply makeup. However, preconceived ideas about how to properly clean our makeup brushes and other makeup accessories that replace them, such as sponges makeup – notably the most famous, the beauty blender – continue. This is why, Dr. Azi, a dermatologist very present on TikTok to put an end to the debate in general sharing a video to reveal the right way to clean your beauty blender. Bad news, it seems that cleaning with water is not enough, which we could have anticipated. But what is much more surprising is that the test of cleaning with water and liquid dishwashing soap does not seem sufficient either! This method would not remove bacteria and dirt from the makeup sponge, nor effectively dissolve makeup.
To successfully remove makeup residue, sebum and bacteria that your makeup sponge each time you use it, it would be necessary to add to the water + dishwashing liquid soap mixture, a surprising product that you certainly have in your kitchen cupboards:olive oil.
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The “secret recipe” for properly cleaning your beauty blender makeup sponge, validated by a dermatologist
As the dermatologist shows in her video, the secret recipe for properly cleaning your beauty blender (and any other makeup sponge) is a mixture of hot water, dishwashing liquid to dissolve makeup and have an antibacterial action, as well as a little olive oil, because the oil will attract the oils present on your sponge such as that of the sebum of your skin, but also those present in the different makeup products for the complexion that you apply to your face and which are collected by the sponge. This is the winning combination to finally be able to easily wash your beauty blender.
Here’s How Often You Really Need to Clean Your Makeup Sponge
Finally, note a detail mentioned by the dermatologist but not the least: according to her it would be essential to clean your beauty blender sponge every day – or in any case after each use of the accessory – to ensure you have a truly clean accessory. A good habit to get into that will help you maintain beautiful, blemish-free skin, and will also save you time when cleaning it. In fact, the less makeup residue accumulates on your sponge, the more easily and quickly you will be able to clean it every day.
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