How to clean your dry body brush
Picture this: we’re methodically using our dry body brush, stimulating blood circulation and removing dead skin cells, when we think to ourselves: this brush, full of our leftover DNA, has never been cleaned. Omg. Gross. Followed up by: how do you clean a body brush, like, immediately?
But, as Google reassures us (as it always does), we can, in fact, clean our dry brushes and therefore continue our go-to beauty ritual without the lingering image of millions of trapped skin cells in the very tool we love so much (isn’t that a visualization you wish you didn’t have?).
So, let’s get right to it. This is how to clean your dry body brush:
- Brush the bristles of your body brush against a dry towel or tap the bristles against the inside of a dry sink to remove dead skin particles
- Fill a dish with approximately one-inch of warm water so the bristles will be wet but not completely submerged
- Add three drops of antibacterial tea tree oil to the water
4. With the bristles touching the dish, move your body brush throughout the water, distributing the tea tree oil amongst the bristles. Do this for 30 to 45 seconds.
5. Dump the water and refill the dish with plain, clean water. Repeat the process of moving your brush against the bottom of the dish.
6. Pour out the water and place your dry brush face-down on a towel. Either leave the brush in place to dry, or speed up the process by gently drying it with a hairdryer.
