Yup, you read that title right. I love love love love love MAC brush cleaner. I attached a spray nozzle to the bottle, so I spritze onto a tissue and wipe my brushes across and just set them to dry. Voila! Clean brushes. AND they smell nice too :-D
But I'm going through the bottle fairly quickly (I need to clean my brushes every day), and it's expensive to keep using $11 cleaner.
My alternative?
Makeup wipes.
That's right.
The wipes that you use to remove makeup from your face? They can be used for your brushes.
Thank about it. If they're gentle enough for your skin, they should work on brushes without damaging them. At least, that was my reasoning...and they remove waterproof mascara from my lashes, why not eyeshadow and foundation from my brushes?
I take a wipe, clean my brushes with it, then rinse my brush in water, and lay out to dry. Seriously, my brushes are as soft as ever, and they get sooo clean!
Best of all? The wipes I use are $1 for 30. So if I use one for my face and one for my brushes every day, that's 2 boxes a month, which is $2. The MAC brush cleaner (I'm estimating), would last me 3 months. $6 verses $11.
But I will still keep the MAC brush cleaner and will rebuy. Why? I don't have to dry the brushes afterwards, when I spray onto a tissue and wipe my brushes across. They're basically dry-ish.