cleaning your glasses or your sunglasses can be pretty annoying especially if
you're dealing with those smudges or those streaks
so i wanted to go over the top three best methods to clean your glasses but also go over the
do's and the don'ts so you don't accidentally damage your glasses permanently let's focus in
hey howdy everybody this is Dr. Neal Guymon, Dr. EyeGuy, and i do videos all about the eyes
including how-to videos like this one now the three best eye glass cleaning methods we're
going to talk about today you're probably already doing a couple of them if not all of them let's
just make sure that you're doing them correctly method number one and like i said you're probably
already doing this and that's to wipe the lenses clean with a microfiber cloth microfiber has tiny
little strands that are designed to pick up small particles and remove oil very well and it lessens
the chance of scratching the lenses now that's a do the don'ts definitely do not use paper towels
wash cloths don't use your shirt pants socks ties even if they're soft you'll be tempted to wipe
your lenses clean with your shirt for convenience but that's probably the most common scratches that
we'll see people tend to wipe their lenses with their shirt and they have debris and maybe small
little particles on their shirt and then they wipe it and scratch the lenses in there even if
they're micro scratches the second method is to use approved lens cleaning spray sometimes it's
tricky to get those smudges and streaks with the microfiber cloth by itself so if you use
the spray spraying the front and the backside and then cleaning with the microfiber cloth
it can definitely clean them a lot better the big don't here is don't use non-approved spray and
how you find out is you want to look at the back you want to make sure that it says alcohol free
and approved for ar coding or anti-reflective coding if there's alcohol in there or it's not
approved for ar coding then it could actually damage your lenses that could damage the coding
on the lenses the third method is probably one that you've heard about but maybe aren't doing
but it's probably one of the best way to clean your glasses and that's to use regular dawn dish
soap now let me walk you through step by step on how to do this now you're going to find this
method everywhere you look because it works so well a big don't here is do not use other dish
soaps that are scented or have lotions in there just stick with the regular good old-fashioned
dawn dark blue dish soap first things first if your hands are nasty grimy and dirty you
definitely want to wash your hands you will be using your fingers to kind of rub the soap
onto the lenses and you don't want to damage the lenses with your own hands now for this you want
to make sure that you use lukewarm water you don't want to be using hot scalding hot water because it
can actually damage the frames or your lenses i actually like to rinse the glasses off first
just to make sure if there is any debris on there it will get washed off now you're gonna take your
dawn dish open put a small little dollop on the front and back surface of the lenses and then very
gently rub and lather the soap onto the lenses and don't be afraid to actually clean your frames too
and a big one is to clean the nose pads on your frames the nose pads tend to carry a lot of
bacteria nasty gunk so make sure that you clean that as well now you're going to rinse the soap
off front and back off the frames of the nose pads make sure that you just get all the soap
off now you can turn the water off and gently just shake the excess water off into the sink and then
you're going to wipe clean with a dry microfiber cloth a lot of times you'll get a lot of gunk and
grime in the screws and the hinges of the glasses and can be pretty tricky to clean now you can
actually buy ultrasonic bath cleaners where you can actually put your frames in this bath and
it'll use ultrasonic waves to clean and get rid of that debris that's in the tough to reach spots
now you want to be careful if you look at amazon and look at the reviews on some of these products
people say that they actually scratch their glasses using some of these products so you just
want to be careful there if it's that bad i would just say take it into your local eye care doctor
they'll more than likely have an ultrasonic cleaner they can actually take your lenses out
take your screws out and actually can do a deep cleanse on your frames and your glasses
and make sure that you check out the description below i'll put a lot of links to different
products that i recommend that can help you clean your glasses the best way now i have
heard a lot of interesting ways people have used to clean their glasses if you have any of those
interesting ways that actually worked definitely leave it in the comments below i'm definitely
curious to hear what worked for you and i'm Dr. Neal Guymon, Dr. EyeGuy, focusing on you and your
eyes make sure that you check out my other videos right there and i'll see you in the next video