I prefer to wash my hands the old-fashioned way, with soapand water, but rarely am I caught without hand sanitizer. It’s my emergencymulti-purpose product.
Hand sanitizer is great because it’s cheap and iteliminates the need to carry multiple products. My purse is already heavyenough. I’m kind of clumsy and messy, but with hand sanitizer, I know I canmake it through a day without a Tide stain-removal pen, makeup brush cleaner,Lysol wipes, travel-size deodorant, and acne spot medicine.
Here are six ways to use hand sanitizer that won’tdry out your hands--promise.
1. Cleaning makeup brushes.
I don’t think makeupmanufacturers make it clear enough that cream eyeliners dry and harden and willthus render your makeup brushes useless if they are not cleaned thoroughly witheach use.
Hand sanitizer does a great job of removing makeup from brushes. Iuse tissue or cotton balls, squeeze a pump or two of hand sanitizer on them,and wipe away excess makeup. It doesn’t take a lot of time from my morningroutine and it keeps my brush functional.
It also works for fluffier brushes.Just apply some hand sanitizer through a paper towel and rub yourbrushes. This is good to do after you’ve had a breakout clear up, since whenyou’re oily, makeup brushes tend to get oily as well, and it makes your makeupstart to pill up and look gross.
2. Removing makeup stains from clothing.
Actually,hand sanitizer is great for removing any kind of stains from anything, notablyink on clothing, ketchup on clothing, soup on clothing, coffee on clothing, etc.
All you need to do is apply a blob of hand sanitizer to the stain, let it soakin, and rub it in. Repeat those steps until the stain is gone.
3. Cleaning your phone so it doesn’t get grease allover your face.
Every once in a while, we should all take a moment to sanitizeour smartphones. We touch our phones while we’re eating French fries, and touch our phones to our faces after a long day when we’re covered in grease and cityslime. We need to clean our phones. Period.
A little bit of hand sanitizeron a paper towel works perfectly to get any grime off your phone.
4. Cleaning the bridge of your glasses so you don’tget blackheads.
I hate glasses because they leave a huge red dent in my noseand, if worn consecutively, form a band of blackheads so stubborn to remove Istart thinking I have freckles.
So I use hand sanitizer to clean my glasses,especially the nose where blackheads form. Hand sanitizer works on the lensesas well.
5. Putting it directly on a pimple.
We’ve all been there. Out in public andfeeling a breakout coming on. You get all uncomfortable and want to go to abathroom to assess the damage, but you don’t have the time or ability to applya spot treatment. So what do you do?
Apply a tiny bit of hand sanitizer to thebaby zit to make it feel better, so you stop picking at it. Blah, blah, everyonesays alcohol is bad for your skin. It is if you rub it all over your skin forno reason, but a little alcohol on a blemish is not a bad thing at all. It willmake the eruption start to feel better, kind of like putting hand sanitizer ona bug bite. I do that. That’s a thing, right?
6. Using it as emergency deodorant.
Seriously. I have done this before. The hand sanitizer helpskill the gross, smelly bacteria and lets you go on with your day feeling atleast a fraction fresher.
Have you ever tried any of these?