Well, I guess for most of you it’s the same when it comes to brush cleaning, on the one hand it’s a task that needs to be done on a regular basis, so we don’t run out of brushes and to get rid of all the bacteria and dead skin cells that tend to collect in the brushes. On the other hand I like cleaning my brushes because then I get all my favorite brushes back and they all look so clean… and while I clean them I can listen to my newest audio book :)
In another
post here I compared two brush Cleansers, one being the MAC Brush
Cleanser and the other being from KIKO. Today I will tell you about my current
brush cleaning method… well it’s not really a method I just use another product
and it’s the Brush Phoenix by Kosmetik Kosmo. Kosmetik Kosmos a German online
shop for cosmetics with an own makeup brand with the same name, if you want to
know more about it I already wrote about buying there and my experience here.
Brush
Phoenix is a solid soap to clean your brushes and it has a really nice lemony
scent to it. You get the soap in the shop for 8,99€ €. It has no metal
container to put the soap in, but you can buy it extra (1,99€), which I did but
I have to say that I didn’t like having to buy it extra, well at least when I
bought my soap but now I can’t find it at the online shop anymore maybe they
don’t have it anymore, because usually the metal boxes are included like when
you buy a brush soap by Da Vinci (6,99€/40g).
But aside
from that little fact I have to say I really like the product. It gets my
brushes clean quickly, they smell good afterward, the bristles stay nice and
soft and the bristles get a little water resistant like with the lotus effect,
which is especially noticeable with my Real Techniques brushes. They dried
quick before using this soap but with it they dry even faster, it takes them
maybe 10 to 15 minutes to dry, the bigger brushes maybe a few more but not
much.
How do I
use the soap? That’s pretty simple I just wet my brushes a little and then
swirl them in the soap to lather them up a little. Then I take my open palm and
swirl the brush little on my hand so the soap gets to every bristle. At the end
you just have to rinse the soap out really well, so no soap is left. If you have
a denser brush like the Foundation brush
by Real Techniques you may have to repeat it once or twice more and getting the
soap out takes a little longer because of the density.
I have to
say I really like to clean my brushes this way because they don’t have stains
from the blush or eyeshadow or any other product, the bristles are really
clean. But I will try the da Vinci brush soap soon too, because there is not
much left of my brush phoenix :)
Also I ordered the Clean Sir which you can also buy at the Kosmetik Kosmo shop and is a rubber matt with different surfaces to help you clean your brushes. You can use it instead of your hand ;) It’s like the glove by Sigma, which costs 32$ and the Clean Sir in contrast costs 11,99€ so it’s a lot cheaper and I thought I’ll try it especially because I usually have tons of brushes to clean because I normally wait till the very last brush to clean them and when I then use my hand it’s super wizen from all the water and soap… and I hate the feeling ;)
I’ll let you guys know how my
hopefully soon rubber friend works for me ;D
Love, Dahlia
