AIBU To Ask How You Wipe Yours?

[Goldenbug]

I'm new to glasses and wanted to hear some tips on how to keep them nice and transparent.

How do you wipe? Do you use fluids or give them a huff to steam them then wipe?

And yes, this could be the dullest thread of the year.

Usually my cotton tshirt. Occassionally buy spectacle wipes in Aldi.

Are the wipes good? I'm still using the Specsavers cloth that came with the glasses, and my cotton T-shirt. Can take 4 or 5 goes to get smear free.

I use windowlene. Only thing that can keep the buggers clean.

Wash with warm water and liquid soap; dry with towel. Wiping with dry cloth just smears grease around ime. (Glasses wearer for 40 years.)

Windowlene and a microfibre cloth

I have the Vision Express cloth and wet wipes. Wet wipe and then the cloth.
Usually from front to the back. Aehm.

I wash mine with either shampoo or washing up liquid and then dry them on a very soft cloth. If I am out I use the little cloth from the optician.

I huff on them then wipe with a tissue usually, never on my clothes. If they need a really good clean I use wipes from Lakeland, which are the best I've found & I've tried loads.

go haaaaaaaah on them with my breath and wipe with the corner of my blouse.

I usually use my t shirt.

I was warned not to use paper, e.g. a tissue as apparently it scratches the lens. Cloth only!

Washing up liquid/liquid soap and warm water, dry with soft cloth or T-shirt.

Stopped using tissues after accidentally using a balsalm one. Smear city.

Huff and soft cotton handkerchief. Warm water and a bar of soap if things get desperate. And a cocktail stick once every 6 months or so to clean the gunge that builds up between lens and frame.

But I have to say that the brain learns to disregard out-of-focus dust and marks.

My optician sold me a little bottle of spray cleaner, I use that with one of the soft cloths they sell/give away with glasses

Front to back.

(While holding them vertically, of course!) ;)

Glasses wipes
Spray cleaner
Soft cloth
Water
Soap and water

The cloths they give you nowadays are hopeless. They're too shiny and don't absorb or clean properly.

One of these www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00FFRDC5S/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_KDKtAbBXX6WZ8?tag=mumsnetforum-21

Spray cleaner, breathing on them , or fairy liquid but never anything with microbeads.

Fairy liquid, rinse them with water, then tap them and blow on them till the water comes off. It leaves little water marks, but better than being greasy.

liz70 has it right.
I've worn glasses for 25 years now and this is what works best.
Although I tend to do them in the work toilets and use the hand towels to dry them.

Came on here to see if you were the Poo Troll. As you were.

What a lovely thread .

Fairy liquid, shampoo, optical wipes, soft cloth, tissue or bottom of t shirt.Basically whatever is handy.

My 5 yr old granddaughter does the breathing and cleaning them with her t shirt thing. It rarely removes the gunge she manages to cover them in though.

I'll definitely try washing them next time they need a mayor going over.

Thanks everybody. You're all wonderful specs therapists!

Fairy liquid (or similar washing liquid) and warm water - then dry them with kitchen roll!