How To Repair Pressed Powder Makeup With Rubbing Alcohol

We've all been crushed as nosotros witness (in what cruelly feels similar slow motion) our brand-new pressed powder crash onto the floor and explode into smithereens. Or possibly you opened your makeup handbag to a colorful, chalky mess. Surprise!

Your heart sinks considering how much you paid for a compact that is now rendered useless. Forget trying to salvage it by lightly dusting the top; a few flecks of loose, errant blush or bronzer is poised to brand a beauty disaster turn into a fashion one when it lands on your dress.

Fret not, there is a way to save broken powders, blushes, bronzers, highlighters and eye shadows with a "solution" you already accept at abode: rubbing alcohol. The reason it works? The liquid evaporates relatively apace and has other skin-friendly perks.

"The alcohol will non innovate any bacteria contaminants," explains cosmetic chemist James Hammer. "Information technology will even take a sterilizing consequence on a production that you may have using for awhile."

Go along in heed, this only works with powders — not creams, jellies or the many varieties of textures trending at your local beauty stores. And while this fix keeps you from tossing that pricey palette, remember that the pulverization won't ever be as solid and stupor-proof as when you first purchased information technology, so care for information technology with care when toting it around.

"It may feel a scrap softer in use and you may selection up a chip more than than usual on your makeup castor," Hammer adds.

What you'll need:

Rubbing alcohol
Saran wrap
A butter knife
A spoon or dropper
A small-scale dish (optional)

What you'll practise:

1. In a move that makes the state of affairs appear worse earlier it gets better, cover the compact with plastic wrap and crush the powder until it looks finely milled. The smaller the particles, the easier it comes back together in the cease.

You'll need to crush it even more before it can get reconstructed back together. — Yous'll demand to crush it even more than before it tin can get reconstructed back together. Anna De Souza

2. Cascade rubbing alcohol in a modest dish for easier access (optional).

3. With a spoon or dropper, begin saturating the pulverization with the rubbing alcohol. If you overdo information technology, information technology'll only have a chip longer to dry out.

4. Smooth what's now become a paste with the dorsum of the spoon. Brand sure there aren't any air bubbles in the paste equally it'll weaken the integrity of the compact one time it dries and may make information technology more susceptible to crumbling once again.