The importance of cleaning your makeup brushes and sponges

Makeup is a set of elements that many people use to get a face with the look they like best. It can be made more natural, colorful, to highlight a specific part of the face...

There are many techniques, products and methods that make it easy to create a look to feel good about ourselves, since in addition, the idea that makeup only serves to hide our real appearance is increasingly left aside.

It is important to choose good quality makeup products with the right characteristics for each skin type, liquid or powder foundations, masks with non-irritating products, moisturizing lipsticks, soft brushes and sponges...

In The Essentials you can find some articles related to makeup like this one about the most popular types of highlighters or some tricks for mature honeys. But today we want to focus on the tools with which we apply many of the main products: brushes, brushes or sponges.

Assuming that good quality is the first premise for good results, there are other factors that play an important role when using brushes and sponges properly. One of the most important is the cleanliness of these tools.

Whether to apply powder, liquid or cream products, it is vitally important that you clean with what you apply it, ideally once a week, or at most once a month, also depending on the use you give them.

Reasons to highlight the importance of cleaning your sponges and brushes:

-They can damage your skin. By accumulating product remains, dirt, dust or moisture, a perfect setting is created for the proliferation of bacteria that can cause reactions and irritation on your skin.

-clog the pores A dirty brush will add a layer of substances and elements that will cover and dirty the pores, which favors the appearance of pimples and acne.

- They mess up your makeup. If you put a brush with build-up from other products or gunk on a shadow, these germs and bacteria will transfer to the product, so every time you use it, you're also applying those harmful elements to yourself.

- They make the application difficult. A fairly obvious fact is that if, for example, your sponge is full of makeup, even of various types, it will not transfer the makeup you pick up well to the skin, because it will have lost its application characteristics.

-They lose useful life. Any makeup tool that is dirty or overproductive will tend to weaken, crack, dry out, or even get moldy in the long run, so you won't be able to save the day and you'll have to buy new brushes or sponges.

Actually removing dirt from sponges, brushes and brushes is very simple, since basic products such as warm water and soap of almost any kind will be your allies.

You can do it with your own hands, but to obtain better results in this hygiene process, there are products like the ones we leave below that can help you and never use a dirty brush again.

silicone mat

Brush cleaner and dryer

Holder for brushes and brushes

Box with ventilation for sponge

This is content produced by Marcas Ñ, the Branded Content section of El Español. The prices of the items that appear here are collected as of 04/09/2021.

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