There’s A Genius New Way To Clean Your Make-Up Sponge

There has been much debate over the years about how you should be applying your foundation – from your fingers to a brush, to the wacky silicon SiliSponge – but the humble beautyblender is still the reigning tool of choice in the beauty world thanks to its perfectly formed egg shape that leaves a streak-free finish every time. We all know how important cleaning our makeup tools are, even if we don’t do it as often as we should; the same goes for our beautyblender. So when a Reddit user shared their hack for deep cleaning a beautyblender using only three ingredients that you most likely already have in your kitchen, we were sold.

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Reddit user Vanyamuina revealed that her magical combination of ingredients for cleaning a beautyblender includes one part olive oil, one part dish soap and one part water. Her instructions are to: “Mix it up, soak up some in your beautyblender, and then run it under hot water, squeezing it over and over. I do this about three times per sponge, and then clean it regularly with a face wash and hot water. Make sure you clean it well, or it will dry and have an oily residue feel to it.”