How to apply LP9 stylus cleaner?

I don't use the small stiff brush, the softer brush that comes attached to the top is sufficiant. Brush from back to front, never front to back or side to side.

I use #9 and have used a 'scope to see how very clean it gets my stylus (which is not to say it is the ONLY way). Anyway, I have always been a bit hesitant to brush the solution directly onto the stylus with the "cap brush", fearing I would get too much on the cantilever and not wanting to "contaminate" the rest of the solution in the bottle. So, I dip the cap brush into the solution, withdraw straight up, and then let a drop of it fall on the separate brush. Then I used it to lightly draw from back to front on the stylus. Periodically, then, rinse out the brush with a bit of solution or distilled water.

I pour the entire contents of the original LP#9 bottle into a tiny plastic screw top container (about twice the diameter of a soda cap). I then throw the factory bottle and brush away.

From my new wide top container, I immerse the (supplied) RR stiff brush or my Last stylus brush completely into the LP#9 solution, withdraw it and fling off any excess. I clean the stylus from rear to front as others have described, and then blow out the brush with canned compressed air, removing all the debris and left over fluid.

Undoubtedly I waste fluid this way, but I never worry if the stylus might have been cleaned better. I know the results are stunning, so I continue with this process.