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The best way to clean glasses is with your fingers using warm water and dish soap. Don't use super hot water, it can damage the coatings on some lenses. Start with a rinse to remove any particles, then clean them between your fingers, then a final rinse, shake them off and let them air dry.
Using any type of cloth can cause scratches as you've found.
I just end up with water droplet "stains" on my lenses like that, obscruing my lenses until I physically wipe them with something.
I put my microfiber cloths in one of those delicates laundry bags and toss it in with a regular load on cold, then let them air dry. Never had any problem with them scratching lenses.
IMO microfibers suck and 99.9% of the time a pain to ever use consistently. They trap dirt and oils. Even after washing their the most smudgey form of a wipe you can get due to the material.
Get crystal lenses and not worry about it. Only had one scratch on them, that was due to them hitting the ground
When the glasses are new: hot water plus some dish soap, gently padded down with a microfiber cloth until it's perfect
When the glasses are old: any fucking thing, including paper and spit, whatever shirt I'm wearing, napkins, etc
I recommend dish soap instead, smells nicer.
To the horror and disgust of my optometrist I wash my glasses in the shower daily. I've been doing so for decades.
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Do you just wear them in? Kinda leave them on all the time, and just let the soap and shampoo do its job?
No, I put soap on my hands and rub the glasses, then rinse under the shower and put them on the ledge.
After the shower I have a hand towel that is only used to dry my glasses which I use to pat the excess water.
Good as new.
Just be careful, some soaps can have abrasive elements. Not simply like, microbead stuff that companies try to use to make microplastics sound healthy, but many soaps with trace minerals or similar. Good for dead skin but can scuff up lenses over time.
No, I put soap on my hands and rub the glasses, then rinse under the shower and put them on the ledge.
What the actual fuck?!
First I was horrified. Now I'm going to try this in a few minutes!
Don't the metal bits rust? Like the screws or pins that hold them together?
You've blown my mind, btw.
I have been wearing glasses for over half a century and I've never seen rust on my glasses. Gunk on the nose supports, sure, rust, never.
As for the nose bits, you can buy glasses where they are part of the frame, no more gunk.
Not if you dry them!
Itβs not about softness, itβs about the fibers that make the tissue. Tissues and wipes not made intended for glass have rough fibers than can scratch glass. Youβre better off using microfiber or disposable glass cleaning wipes. If youβre concerned about microfiber cloths getting dirty, most have care instructions on their tags, and itβs usually hand washing and drying.
Yeah, my wife (optometrist) gave me shit about cleaning my glasses with paper towels because they scratch the lenses.
I wear my glasses into the fucking ground because I have a big head and it's difficult to find frames that fit. I've literally bought multiple identical frames and shifted the lenses in between and swapped parts to not have to get new frames.
I've never ever had to replace a lens because of damage from a paper towel. The only scratches I've ever gotten in lenses was from dropping my glasses and having them skid across pavement.
The only times I've replaced lenses was because my prescription changed or because I no longer had enough functional parts to rebuild the frame.
Having said that, when my wife had her practice, I was basically getting everything at cost, and she could bring frame reps in with their entire catalog to pick through. So, I got used to getting new frames more often (every five years or so). I also ended up with bunches of microfiber cloths, so I distributed them around to everywhere I go. I have one at work, one in my car, one at my desk at home.
So, I do things the "right" way now, but only because my personal experience led to it being easier than going to get a paper towel.
When she got disabled and we had to sell her practice, we kept a couple boxes of lens cleaner too, so we'll probably never need any more. One large bottle seems to last about 10 years and we've got around a dozen. When we die, the kids will each be able to inherit a couple bottles of lens cleaner.
I just rub the lenses with a regular handkerchief or the hem of my shirt.
I rinse mine in the sink, tap on a towel a few times, then dry with microfiber
A drop of dish soap and warm water then blow the water off with compressed air.
Perfect for cleaning on the go
I have a set of microfiber cloths with one per room. Once they get filthy I wash them in a small clothes bag. And every so often just buy a new pack. They're cheap.
Wipe them on my shirt, and dish soap when required. No microfiber cloth.
Ultrasonic cleaner with isopropanol solution.
Mainly just alcohol/iso spray front and rear and papertowel sometimes heavily spraying to degrease. Crystal clear with a single paper towel. It's more about keeping them clean than repeating over and over.
my glasses place says I should just use water and a microfiber cloth unless I buy eyeglass cleaner so that is what im doing. I keep the microfiber cloth in a drawer to keep it from accumulating dust.