I know I’m not the only one who gets lazy when it comes to cleaning my makeup brushes. I’m the first to admit this is annoying to do on the regular, but it’s oh so necessary. Read on to see how you can deep clean your brushes in ten minutes for under $3.

Imagine your used (multiple times) brush full of makeup, dead skin cells, sebum – and dipping it back into your makeup (contaminating the product)…and then putting that delicious comedogenic cocktail into your precious pores. Hello breakouts!!!

While we’re talking about bacteria and germs, I know many people use baby shampoo to clean their brushes (I used to do this too) but baby shampoo is NOT effective in killing bacteria. Just don’t do it! But it’s so cheap and gets all the makeup off you say?

Not to worry my hunnies! I bring you my quickest and most effective (also extremely cost effective) way to clean our brushes!

The first thing we’re going to need is this bar of SARD Wonder Soap. Don’t fork out for expensive brush cleansers that take a lot of product to clean a set of brushes. You can pick it up at Woolies for only…*drumroll*…$2.65!!!!! WHAT! I wasn’t kidding when I said this was a cost effective method. This bar of soap will last you for months. Find it here or in the laundry aisle.

DISCLAIMER: Soap smells strongly of Eucalyptus but this smell does not remain on your brushes.

The second thing is optional, and I have cleaned my brushes without it – but it does feel much more thorough and I do feel it cuts down the effort and time spent cleaning. Behold this dual sided body glove from my favourite place on earth, K-Mart. As you can tell, it’s purpose has nothing to do with makeup brushes but as soon as I saw it I immediately thought it would be perfect for this – hear me out. It has fine textured bumps on one side (perfect for swirling around small soaped up brushes) and on the other side it has big course textured bumps (perfect for larger dense brushes). These bumps really help to work the soap through all the bristles and loosen up the makeup and dirt. This genius little thing is $8 and again, not completely necessary and totally optional. Find it here or in the beauty section.

And that’s all we need guys! Really simple! To see how it’s done, check out my quick video:

That’s all there is to it! Clean brushes that takes minimal time, effort and cost.

If I, a mum of a newborn and an extremely demanding toddler, can find 10 mins to do this regularly, so can you! Your skin, cosmetics and brushes will thank you.

How do you clean your makeup brushes?