Tips to Keeping Beauty Products Clean

May 2, 2018

Nichole Hannahs,

(KPRC) Dermatologists recommend cleaning makeup supplies regularly, preferably every couple weeks. This can help to prevent acne, eye infections and bacteria from getting on your skin and makeup.

Blogger, Nora Kapche who writes the blog Coupon Contessa, says she lives for lifestyle hacks and shares these ten10 ways to clean beauty supplies:

Makeup bag
You may have already thought about using a makeup remover wipe to remove the stains, but Kapche said antibacterial wipes will wipe the makeup clean and kill germs.

“If you clean the makeup bag, the products that you put in are going to be clean as well,” she said.

Eyelash curlers
Some say to use a lighter to clean your eyelash curler.

However, Kapche prefers a safer, less flammable method. She recommends getting inside the small grooves of the eyelash curler with a cotton swab soaked in isopropyl alcohol. Obviously, you should never use both the lighter and the alcohol together.

Pencil sharpeners
Using a cotton swab with alcohol is a great way to clean this product and the swab easily gets inside the sharpener, too. Kapche said that means all the pencils you sharpen inside will be clean as well.

Nail and manicure tools
Alcohol works to disinfect, and a cotton swab is the perfect size to get between the clippers, scissors, etc.