Welcome to 2022, the yr that people started eating Tide Pods and cooking their Dazzler Blenders in the microwave.

How did we become here?

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Like the (stupid) Tide Pod Challenge, the microwave hack went viral and now everyone online is trying it.

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If washed correctly, it promises to clean your makeup sponge in just one infinitesimal.

Here'due south how it'southward done:

  1. Make full a cup with soapy water.
  2. Make clean your sponge and then put it in the cup of water.
  3. Squeeze it until it's fully-saturated.
  4. Oestrus the cup for one minute in the microwave.
  5. Let it sit for five minutes until water cools, then squeeze it out.

Easy right? Wrong. Some people are forgetting the very of import soapy h2o pace. So instead of boiling all the germs out of their sponge, they're straight up melting it.

Then there are the people who forgot that putting water in the microwave for one minute brings it to a boil – and they're burning the sh*t out of their hands.

Yeah, don't exercise that.

Simply for the people who followed the steps correctly and waited for the water to absurd down, the trick is a game-changer.

Permit'southward be clear, though: the microwave hack isn't meant to clean a sponge that's caked with two-years worth of foundation. Information technology'southward supposed to disinfect your sponge.

Then if you lot want your Blender to come out looking make new, brand certain you wash the excess production off manually earlier popping it in the microwave.

If you're still skeptical about this fox, in theory it should work. The tip is actually USDA approved – they recommend this exact process for sanitizing kitchen sponges. But be freaking careful.

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