While at 24 I no longer have acne or feel
the need to wear the same amount of heavy makeup that I used to help mask it, I
still love playing with makeup and brushes are a big help for that. It helps to
get your brows on point, your cat eye sharp and your foundation blended. I
actually didn’t start using brushes, besides from a powder brush, until I was
about 20 when I picked up my first proper brush at Bobbi Brown and the
addiction started.
Ever since then I have been looking for
ways to clean my brushes to the point that they look the same as when I first
brought them. A quick Google search brings up the favourite of baby shampoo.
Nope. This does not work, I guarantee it. Especially when you use liquid
foundations because it won’t budge it. I also don’t see how baby shampoo can
budge tough makeup stains when it is meant to be incredibly gentle for use on
babies. There was one trick of combining baby shampoo and olive oil that also
didn’t work. Then regular shampoo that worked slightly but still left me
disappointed. For a while I just used my eye makeup removed that worked
amazingly but was too expensive to use on a regular basis. Then I tried a vegan
hippy castile peppermint oil wonder soap that worked all right for powder
brushes but still couldn’t lift the heavy liquid formulas. Finally I stumbled
onto the Solid Blender Cleanser by Beauty Blender that worked brilliantly at
budging most formulas and left my brushes 97% clean. Still, I was aching for
that extra 3% to leave me feeling so satisfied with how squeaky fresh my
brushes could be.
I thought I was going crazy and would never
find something like that until one night when my Solid Blender Cleanser ran out
and I was debating on whether or not to order a new one or try something new
instead. I was searching for ways to clean the build up in a Beauty Blender
when I stumbled onto the YouTube channel of Amy Macedo and her video titled How
To: Clean Makeup Brushes & Beauty Blenders UNDER $1. I clicked despite
thinking that the title was click bait and was amazed to see all the gunk and
grime that was coming out of her brushes so easily from using the smallest amount of $1
laundry soap. It was called Zote Pink Soap and it was just a basic bar of
laundry soap that you could find for a $1 in America. So I Googled it and
realised it would cost nearly $30 to get one single bar to Australia which was
ridiculous. So I decided to hit Google again and find out what was so special
about American laundry soap and there isn’t actually anything too special about it.
So I decided to hit Woolies and pick up a
bar of Sards Wonder Soap and try it out with my brushes. I wet my brush under
the tap and as soon as my brush hit that bar of soap what felt like years of
makeup started coming out. It took only the tiniest bit of soap and my brushes
were better than new again. The real test was the Beauty Blenders though
because when they aren’t washed properly the product starts to build up in the
bottom and leave it waxy, and the Sards Wonder Soap got rid of all that too! It
even got rid of the old Estee Lauder Double Wear stains on my old Real
Techniques sponge that had been there for forever and a day. Then I went
through all my clean dry brushes and rewashed them only to see makeup coming
out. This soap gives such a thorough clean and I seriously don’t know how I have
gone so long without having it in my life. It is seriously a magical bar of
soap that anyone with dirty brushes needs in their life ASAP. Also I won't lie because the smell of the soap isn't the greatest and does smell a bit iffy, but once you've rinsed your brushes they won't smell at all like the soap anymore. The Sard Wonder Soap does such a great job at getting all the grime off but if you wan't to kill any bacteria just give your brushes a spray with an alcoholic spray, like the Models Prefer Brush Cleaner, and that will finish them off.
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