Sephora Brush It Off Cleansing Brush Wipes - Review and Photos

For some reason, some of my favorite videos to watch on YouTube are the "What's in my travel bag" types from beauty bloggers. I really don't travel that much, but I want to. I'm planning ahead. Yeah, that's it.

But I did go home for a few weeks during the Christmas and New Year holidays. With work piling up before my trip, I didn't have time to thoroughly wash my makeup brushes. So I took my essential brushes home with me, along with this thing:

I bought these on a whim during a Sephora sale for $7. The video that accompanied the product description hyped these wipes up, but of course it would. 

It seemed like a great idea for travelling: individually wrapped, pre-moistened cloths that you swipe your brush on to clean them. The video says that natural hair brushes don't need as much vigorous cleaning as synthetic ones do. Natural hair brushes can be swiped back and forth, and synthetic you can swirl into the cloth in a circular motion.

Sounds like a cool idea, but I wanted to test them out.

Before (ELF Beautifully Bare blending brush)

The instructions say to place a wipe over a towel and swirl your brush in it until it's clean. It also claims deep cleaning, which I find hard to believe when you're just wiping your brush on a cloth, but...

After

That looks pretty clean to me. 

Once you've used the entirety of one side of the cloth, you can flip the cloth over and continue cleaning on the other side.

I ended up using two wipes to fully clean all of my brushes. I tried to flip the wipe over to use the other side, but I found that the backside didn't clean my brushes as well since so much product had permeated into it. I swiped my brushes on a clean paper towel afterward to dry them off, and I did see that some more product came off on the towel. I can't really expect a single wipe to clean my brushes as well as a proper deep cleaning would, but for what it is, it did a really great job. 

They were super convenient to take on my trip, and they could probably also be used to clean brushes in between applications to remove any color or product before using the same brush again.

Has anyone tried these Sephora brush cleaning wipes? Has anyone tried cleaning their makeup brushes on a regular makeup removing wipe? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below!