Full Cleaning Guide + Free Printable & Tracker | Philosophical Life

Bounjour, my friends!

Have you wondered how often you need to clean things and to replace them to stay clean? Well, behold a big Cleaning Guide where you'll find most everyday things you deal with like towels, bedding, tooth brushes, makeup brushes, dust and more. This post is a final post for these 30 Days of Philosophical Life "Clean Life" series where I combined everything we've talked about throughout this "month". You can join our journey on getting your life together one step at a time starting with first Philosophical Life post. 

As I mentioned before, for this Cleaning Guide I put together all the aspects I've already written about and added some Trackers and Tips for you. There will be a link at the end of this post so you can download all the goodies. You guys know, that I don't like overwhelming posts with a lot of text because you get lost in it and can't concentrate on important things so instead of writing a shit tone of things I'll will just mention some bullet points and leave links for specific posts where I thoroughly explain everything about each element of the table overhead. 

I've developed three types of cleaning: Light, Medium and Deep. It helps to stay as clean as possible without spending too much time on doing useless things. This is quite easy to understand but I feel like saying a few things. First of, deep clean does not always mean actually cleaning, like for Beauty Blender, Konjac Sponge and Tooth Brush - it actually means replacing them with new ones. Secondly,  light clean is not always a must like with makeup brushes - I understand that you not always have time for that. However, medium is definitely obligatory as well as light clean for everything else (except makeup brushes).  

Don't worry if you are a little bit confused by all of these because Trackers that I included in a doc linked at the end of the post will help understand everything and develop your own system. You can also check out how I use these Trackers in real life (like in this pic ☟) in my Plan w/ Me series where I show you my planner/bullet journal: April, May, June,  July.  

Now as promised you can check out any of the themes you want to and see what, how and when needs to be cleaned or washed, or replaced.

Clean Life Articles:

• Bedding, PJs, Pillows etc
• All kinds of Towels (face, hand, kitchen etc)
• Reflective Surfaces (mirrors, windows, screens etc) and Windowsill 
• Carpets, Floors & Dust
• Makeup Brushes, Sponges & Tooth Brush

Download Free full Table with Tips + Tracker for July & August + Blank Monthly Trackers
Click here

Until next time, babes

Don't forget to use  #30daysofphilosophicallife if you want to

Keep it clean

Stay true

XoXo

Ivana

How Often to Clean: Makeup Brushes, Konjac Sponge... | Philosophical Life

Bonjour, my friends!

I'm back yet again with another Clean Life post which is a part of our Philosophical Life program where we try and get our lives together one piece at a time. So we've talked about a lot of things this month and this is actually going to be last but one post for these 30 days but do not worry it's not going anywhere, we'll always have things to talk about. Actually, what do you guys want me to talk about? What things you don't not when and how to clean? Let me know in the comments or write me a short email. 

Let's get talking. For this post I chose a very popular theme - Beauty. I think that nowadays most of us use some kind of makeup on our faces and while we learned to choose better quality products we often forget that the tools we're using also need our attention. First of all those are makeup brushes, now there are a lot controversial posts about how often you to clean them so let's get out the way once and for all. Ideally you need to clean them after every use or better say just everyday and for you can use special wipes (as mentioned on the picture above), then you need to deep clean them every week meaning you use a little bit of hair shampoo or micellar water and for the real good clean once a month when you use a special soup and a rubber brush cleaning matt (you buy it at any makeup store). As for beauty blenders and other sponges, I do strongly recommend washing them everyday because these babies can grow a lot of bacteria inside of them and once every 3 months you new replace them and buy a new one. Same goes for konjac sponges (those are soft sponges for your face that you use with your normal soup, helps me a lot with dead skin and good cleanse)  and tooth brushes aka replacing them one every 3 months. Moreover, brushes need to be cleaned with soup and hot water every week.
Now, I'll leave a little description down below so you can see it all more clearly

Makeup Brushes:

• Light clean - swiping brushes on makeup removing wipe
• Medium - cleaning them with micellar water or shampoo
• Deep - using some special soup and rubber matt 

Beauty Blender:

• Light - cleaning it with special soup or micellar water
• Deep - just replacing it with a new one

Konjac Sponge:

• Deep - just replace it

Tooth Brush:

• Light - wash it under hot water with soup 
• Deep - replace it

You can check other Clean Life Articles:

• Bedding, PJs, Pillows etc
• All kinds of Towels (face, hand, kitchen etc)
• Reflective Surfaces (mirrors, windows, screens etc) and Windowsill 
• Carpets, Floors & Dust
• Full Cleaning Guide with Free Downloadable Trackers, Tips and more

Until next time, babes

Don't forget to use  #30daysofphilosophicallife if you want to

Keep it clean

Stay true

XoXo

Ivana