i clean my pretty much everyday with the mac brush cleaner... the guy at the mac store told me to pour some on some tissue and just swirl my brushes around... not once did he tell me to rinse them after so i haven't been doing that... until right now after reading some earlier entries and the back of the bottle..

When you wash your brushes after use them in the AM should they be dry by the the next morning, or does it sometimes take longer? IS it good to wash them daily ?

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Skylar--I've found even if I wash them the night before (lets say by 10pm) and I get up at 6, they'll usually all be ready to go.

I wash my brushes I dip in paintpots daily (otherwise they get crusty and you can't really use it a second time IMO), and I have a 187se I like to use when I 'm applying liquid foundation, and I wash that one every second day.
Otherwise brushes I use for powdery products like blush and msfs I wash every few weeks--I just wipe them clean on kleenex to get the colour off.
For my eyeshadow brushes (for powder shadow) I wash it every other day as well.

So the general consensus is either baby shampoo, your own shampoo, or the brush cleaner by MAC. A few have mentioned conditioning them...does anyone do that? For those of us out there that use baby shampoo almost on a daily basis, this obviously doesnt kill bacteria so what do people use for this purpose (besides alcohol, as there is no way I am putting that on my brushes.) Antibacterial soap once every two weeks?

Hmm, that's what i want to know too... would antibacterial handgel be harmful if used diluted? because i used to do that, like i would wash my brushes in warm water and shampoo, rinse and then dilute some antibacterial handgel in a cup of warm water and just swirl my brushes in it and rinse again, but i don't know if that's harming my brushes due to the alcohol in the handgel?

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I use cleansing oil for brushes I've used to apply emollient products, followed by shampoo.

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I put my brush cleanser into a spray bottle (empty Bath and Body Works splash container) and use that. I like having it in a spray bottle because it's easier for me to control. I spray it onto the brush, swish it on a washcloth, and rinse.

Edit: I don't use MAC brush cleanser, I use EnKore's recipe. I've never had the MAC one, but I had everything you need for the EnKore one and so I made that. It works better than the baby shampoo I was using before!

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I put my brush cleaner (MAC) into a spray bottle as well, I prefer that way alot better! I had no idea I was meant to rinse my brushes after cleaning them though

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Lol, I didn't either but someone on youtube said to so now I do

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I have a question, a bit of a dilemma actually... I have in the past used soaps from Lush for proper cleans (and before anyone keels over, I have had no problems doing that for a long, long time, I've found it to be really gentle yet thorough.. just started using J&J baby soap at someone's recommendation, but I might just go back to Lush) But people have often told me that they shampoo and occasionally condition their brushes and they come out perfect. So a few weeks ago I thought I might try as I'd run out of my Lush soap.. it was a Garnier brand hair shampoo.

WELL. All the brushes came out fine, MAC and non-MAC; except for the #187 stippling brush. It smells like someone's packed 5 wet dogs in there. This brush has never smelled for me in the past (it's been cleaned with Clinique brush cleanser, MAC brush cleanser, baby shampoo, Lush soap, even foaming facial cleansers in times of emergency) but since the shampoo incident, the smell just won't go away. I get really self-conscious using it on people and have tried to avoid using it if possible because if it's near the nose and they breathe in, I know that the smell will be very much detectable

So. Any solutions on how to deodorize brush hairs?? I've always taken great care of my brushes, so other than the smell it's in perfect condition after 2+ years, it's too much of a waste to throw it out..

Incidentally, as for brush cleanser specifically, I prefer the Clinique one in terms of spray-on-tissue-in-between-cleans, because I think it cleans better. They look the same, and being sister companies I figured it probably was, but when I had a stint working on the Clinique counter, the MAC girls would always come to borrow it rather than their own..

^Lancome girls use to borrow clinique's brush cleanser as well.We used 'brush off' but liked clinique a lot better(for dissolving the makeup off the brush)...as far as your stippling brush...did you dry it standing up? That's the only I can think of it how it got an odor...and if I were you I would just keep on washing it with heavily scented 'gentle' shampoo, maybe even spray it with something that smells good (non-alcohol)...Anyway, I have always washed my face brushes with antibacterial soap (which is probably kind of drying,but I'm a germaphobe)about every 3 or 4 days and I use this cleanser for my eye brushes that I got from nordstrom a long time ago,which I clean every time I use them...it smells like oranges and it's VERY conditioning, I just spray it directly on the brushes and then wipe it on the paper towels...

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I just purchased a mac brush set at my local CCO but I wanted to know if one needs to wash these as well before using them, since they aren't hand made.
thanks so much.

I would. You don't know how many people have handled them getting them packaged and so forth.