Oddly satisfying
Cleaned eight brushes in ten minutes and they were dry enough to use straight away. My foundation brush looks brand new.
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Electric Makeup Brush Cleaner
Written and reviewed by the Soielle team. We research the sleep-beauty essentials and devices we sell and keep every product detail factual and current. Last updated August 2026.
5.0 · 1 reviews£16.99
Clean, dry brushes in under a minute. Clip a brush into the spinner, dip it in the cleaning bowl, and the motor washes and then spin-dries it: no more staining towels or waiting overnight for brushes to dry.
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Comes with multiple collar sizes to fit everything from eye brushes to powder brushes. Clean tools mean truer colour payoff and less bacteria against your skin.
- Spinner handle with cleaning bowl
- Multiple collar sizes for different brush handles
- USB charging cable
- Use a gentle brush shampoo or diluted cleanser
- Spin above the waterline to dry
- Not for use with natural-hair brushes that dislike water
- Dispatched within 1–2 business days of your order.
- Free shipping on all UK orders: estimated delivery 7–10 business days.
- Easy 30-day returns and a 30-day satisfaction guarantee on all purchases.
- 24-hour cancellation window after placing your order.
- Defective or damaged items are replaced at no cost to you.
Why you'll love the Electric Makeup Brush Cleaner
It does not come with anything to wash them with
Worth knowing before you order rather than after. This is a machine, not a cleanser, and the bowl arrives empty. You supply a gentle brush shampoo or a well diluted cleanser, which is a few pounds and probably already under your sink. Most listings for spinners leave you to work that out on delivery.
The drying is the part that changes anything
Washing brushes by hand was never the hard bit. Leaving them flat overnight to dry is, because it puts your brushes out of action until tomorrow, which is precisely why the job keeps getting postponed. Spinning the water out means a brush you washed after dinner is usable the same evening.
Collars for the brushes you actually own
Several collar sizes come in the box, so a fine eye brush and a fat powder brush both grip properly. A brush that slips in the collar just wobbles in the water instead of turning, which is the usual reason these get abandoned in a drawer.
£16.99, and deliberately in the middle
The unbranded spinners on Amazon run about £9.50 to £10, and StylPro, which effectively defined this category, is £29.99 direct and £20.99 at B&Q for the nearest equivalent. This sits between the two and we would rather say so than pretend it is either the bargain or the benchmark. Free UK delivery, thirty days to send it back.
A spinner is not a brush cleaner, and the search results prove it
Search makeup brush cleaner in the UK and most of the first page is liquid. MAC, Clinique, ISOCLEAN, a £4.80 spray from Peaches and Cream. One result on that whole page is a machine. Two quite different products are sold under one phrase, and plenty of people buy the wrong one, so it is worth being blunt about which this is. This is the machine. It needs the liquid.
The mechanism is centrifugal and there is nothing clever about it. The collar grips the handle, the motor turns the brush in the water so the bristles work against themselves, then you lift it clear of the water and the same spin throws the water back out. That second half is the reason to own one. The first half your hands already do perfectly well.
We are not going to tell you it sanitises anything. The best known machine in this category says on its own listing that it sanitises brushes, and it may well be right, but we hold no test data of our own and will not borrow someone else's claim to sell a device. What this does is wash and dry. That is enough of a reason to buy it and it has the advantage of being true.
One real limitation, and it is the reason the answer to what professionals use is not this. Brushes made from natural hair, goat and squirrel and similar, do not enjoy being soaked and spun. Water gets into the ferrule, the glue softens, and shedding starts. If your brushes are natural hair and you care about them, clean them by hand and skip this entirely. Synthetic brushes, which is most of what is sold now, are fine.
Where it earns its shelf space is frequency. Nobody argues that brushes should be washed more often than they are. The obstacle has never been knowing that, it is the drying time, and this removes the drying time. If it moves you from washing your brushes when you notice them to washing them on a Sunday, it has done the whole of its job.
How to use the Electric Makeup Brush Cleaner
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Charge it over USB before the first use. The cable is in the box.
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Fit the collar that grips your brush handle snugly. Snug, not forced: if you have to push it on, go up a size, and if the brush wobbles, go down one.
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Part fill the bowl with warm water and a small amount of gentle brush shampoo or a well diluted cleanser. Not neat washing-up liquid, which strips synthetic bristles and leaves them squeaky and splayed.
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Dip so the bristles are in the water and the metal ferrule is not. This is the step that decides whether your brushes survive the year: water wicking up into the ferrule softens the glue holding the bristles in, and shedding follows a few washes later.
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Run it in short bursts rather than one long one, checking the water. When it stops colouring, the brush is clean.
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Lift the brush clear of the water, above the waterline, and spin it dry. Then reshape the head with your fingers and leave it flat rather than upright, so anything left drains away from the ferrule instead of into it.
Care and safety
- The ferrule stays out of the water. Every time, on every brush, including when you are in a hurry. Almost every ruined brush in this category was ruined that way.
- Change the water between brushes if you have just done a dark base or a heavily pigmented shadow, otherwise you are rinsing the next brush in the last one.
- Natural-hair brushes are not for this. Wash those by hand, in tepid water, and let them dry flat.
- Rinse and dry the bowl and the collars after a session rather than leaving them wet in a drawer, and let the collar dry fully before it goes back on.
- Weekly is the sensible rhythm for anything that touches foundation or concealer, and every couple of weeks is fine for eye and powder brushes. The point of owning this is that weekly stops being an ordeal, not that the brushes need it more often than they did.
Electric Makeup Brush Cleaner: frequently asked questions
- What is the best thing to clean makeup brushes with?
- A gentle brush shampoo, or a facial cleanser diluted well in warm water. Both lift makeup out of synthetic bristles without stripping them. What to avoid is neat washing-up liquid, which is designed to cut grease off crockery and does the same to the finish on your bristles, and anything alcohol heavy, which dries them brittle. Baby shampoo is the cheap standby and works. Whatever you choose, this machine is the thing that moves it through the bristles and then spins the water out. It does not replace it, and it does not come with any.
- What do professional makeup artists use to clean their brushes?
- Honestly, mostly not this. Working artists tend to use a solvent based spray between clients, because it dries in seconds and they need the brush again in a minute, and many of them own natural-hair brushes that should never be soaked or spun. A spinner is a domestic tool for a domestic problem: a drawer of synthetic brushes that all need doing at once and nobody willing to lose them overnight. That is a good problem for it to solve. It is just not the problem a professional has.
- Does it come with cleaning solution?
- No. In the box you get the spinner handle, the cleaning bowl, the collar sizes and a USB charging cable. The cleaning liquid is yours to supply. We would rather put that in the first line of the page than have you find it out when the parcel arrives, and it is the single most common misunderstanding about this category, because the search term that brings people here mostly returns bottles of cleanser rather than machines.
- Will it fit my brushes?
- Several collar sizes come in the box, covering the usual range from a fine eye brush up to a powder brush. The fit is on the handle, not the bristles, so what matters is the diameter of the stem just below the ferrule rather than how big the head is. Very fat handled kabuki brushes and unusually chunky novelty handles are the ones most likely to sit outside the range. If a brush wobbles rather than turning with the collar, it is the wrong size, and forcing it is how collars split.
- How often should I clean my makeup brushes?
- About once a week for anything that goes into foundation, concealer or cream product, and every couple of weeks for eye and powder brushes is a reasonable rhythm. Almost everyone knows they should do it more often than they do. The reason they do not is not ignorance, it is that hand washing puts the brushes out of service overnight, and by tomorrow the impulse has passed. Removing the drying time is genuinely the whole argument for buying one of these.
- Is it actually better than washing them by hand?
- Not at cleaning them. Your hands are perfectly good at that and cost nothing. It is better at drying them, and it is better at making the job small enough that you will do it. If you are someone who already washes their brushes every Sunday by hand and does not mind waiting for them, this will not improve your life and you should keep your £16.99. If your brushes are washed roughly never because it means writing off a day, that is the gap this fills.
Electric Makeup Brush Cleaner
£16.99
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