What to Do with Old Makeup Brushes
You don’t have to be a pack rat to find throwing things away to be environmentally distasteful. I think every product should live at least twice and I like to find creative ways to reuse just about everything. The trick is doing it in style. So, what to do with those old makeup brushes?
Thankfully, a brush is already a useful object. Even after it’s lost its shape and is shedding, it can find a new career outside of your makeup kit. Here are some ideas:
1. Use them for paintings and crafts.
2. Spray them with white vinegar and use them for cleaning out window frames.
3. Use them to dust fragile camera lenses.
4. Save them for messy gluing projects.
5. Dust off remote controls and electronics with very small parts (sewing machines, keyboards, etc.).
Let me know if you think of anything else!
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4 Comments
April 17th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Thaks for the tips! Also, my mom recommends washing them in baby shampoo to preserve their use for make up. I tried it and it works very well. You do have to clean them often.
April 29th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Great idea! I would add old out of use toothbrushes to the list of re-purposable items. They are great for cleaning in cracks and crevices, and getting scum out of many things like finger nails that have embedded organic garden dirt in them to charred nitro-cellulose caked into small metal parts.
April 29th, 2008 at 10:15 am
That’s a great reminder, BG. And old, washed sponges that no longer have any scratching power can serve as moisture-absorbers when you run your delicates through the air/tumble cycle on your dryer.
April 29th, 2008 at 10:19 am
That’s a great reminder, BG. And old, washed sponges that no longer have any scratching power can serve as moisture-absorbers when you run your delicates through the air/tumble cycle on your dryer.
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