Make up brush cleaner.

[CaraMiaMonCher]

Hello,

Does anyone have any holy grail brush cleaner recommendations?

They never seem quite clean enough, or some of them leave a greasy residue or don’t dissolve the make up fully.

I’ve tried the Bobbi Brown brush cleanser, the Spectrum collections hard soap in a tin, a little blue Boots bottle, Dr Bronners Castile soap (the worst for residue), Johnson’s baby shampoo, generic antibac handwash, etc.

Thank you.

I always use clarifying shampoo and a cheap Elf silicone brush cleaner.

Cinema Secrets, quite hard to get hold of now. Used to be available on Beauty Bay, looks like only Amazon now. Sephora in the US always used to have it, I always stocked up when I went but they don’t have it now. It is good if you can get some.

I just use a pump of hand soap on my palm with warm water, swirl the brush around on my palm and rinse and repeat until the water is clean. Works like a charm! I've tried all fancy cleaners and gadgets and they're not necessary.

Fairy liquid and warm water. Put it in an wine glass with the brushes and leave to soak for a bit.
Then work through the bristles and rinse under a cold tap.
Works a treat.

Bar soap!

I just use shampoo.

Johnson's baby shampoo

I just use shampoo too

I accidentally washed all my make up brushes with a load of washing in the machine. Came out perfect!
(It was Fairy liquid laundry)

Shampoo works a treat on mine

That will loosen the glue, and the bristles will fall out.

A famous make up artist once told me that washing up liquid is by far the best thing to use.

Shampoo or isoclean which is more expensive but easier so more likely to clean often, I buy for the year on Black Friday

Isoclean is very good!

I use liquid hand soap, and rub them around on one of those textured silicon pads (mine came from Primark, so not fancy). Rinse, dry, good as new.

Do you use synthetic or natural hair brushes?

Isoclean is just isopropyl rubbing alcohol. Can buy a big bottle of it for little more than a fiver on Amazon.

A solid brush cleaner, the revolution one was amazing but can no longer find it. I bought the Japonesque one on Amazon and its quite good.

I much prefer solid cleaner to shampoo, fairy liquid and liquid brush cleaner. I clean my brushes every week and solid is definitely quickest and easiest.

I like baby shampoo and one of the silicone bumpy pads.

Another vote for fairy liquid. Cuts through the fatty greasy stuff well. No need for a special cleaner

I’ve tried various over the years and hands down the best I’ve tried is from a small company called Jewel Cosmetics. It’s like a little bar of soap and you swirl the brush around and honestly the make up just falls out the brush-it’s my absolute holy grail! And not expensive either. I’ve tried washing up liquid/hand soap too but they don’t work nearly as well as this, perhaps partly because I use a full coverage foundation which is probably harder to clean.

I got a solid charcoal soap cleaner - it’s astonishing. Wet the bar, swirl the brush over it, rub it across the rubber pad & rinse: no make up, no soap residue- actually like new. I got one from Cult beauty, comes in a plastic tub. Plan to gift it also as it’s that good.

I use the stylo cleaner thing. I'm lazy though.

Echo washing up liquid, I use the anti-bacterial version.