How to Clean Your Beauty Blender Sponge (A Simple Hack) And Actually Use It The Right Way

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Beauty blenders are an amazing tool, but I bet you aren’t using it or cleaning it properly! Today I’m going to show you how to clean your beauty blender sponge.

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Over the years I’ve gone back and forth between using a beauty blender sponge and just using my fingers to apply foundation, but I have recently been leaning more towards the beauty blender sponge due to the flawless finish that it gives my skin. I was surprised to learn, though, that I had been both using and cleaning my sponges wrong, so I want to share my simple hack with you all today.

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How to Clean Your Beauty Blender Sponge

There are various ways to clean your beauty blender sponge and it’s really up to personal preference:

Use your normal brush shampoo and suds it, and let it dry.
Use some olive or sweet alone oil, rub, and rinse.
Do one of the above, and nuke it in the microwave for 30 seconds for an extra bit of clean!

How to Use Your Beauty Blender Sponge The Right Way

This shocked me the most and it’s so incredibly simple that you are going to have to pick your jaw off the floor whenever you hear. Ever wonder why you use so much product when you are using your beauty blender sponge? It’s not supposed to be that way because you are actually supposed to use it wet. YES!

Simply dampen, don’t drench, your beauty blender sponge, and then apply your product. Easy peasy!