Whomever may be reading this, I’ve recently found incredible luck with dawn dish soap.
- Run glasses and hands under water
- Put glasses to the side and lather dish soap on your fingers.
- Using your lathered fingers, gently apply soap to glasses
- Put glasses to the side and rinse off your hands so they’re not still soapy
- Reduce water pressure so it’s gentle, constant stream of water.
- Rinse off glasses
I only really clean my glasses once a month ish. Maybe twice. Of course if I smear my glasses or it’s an eventful week, I clean as needed. That’s just how often I clean them.
This is the way, with a nice microfiber towel to dry.
It’s also hard to do on the go and when I’m lazy.
I have a box of a few hundred disposable glasses cleaning wipes I just stuff everywhere. Was like $20 on Amazon and my best purchase ever. Been using it for months. Life changing.
The problem is you wanna wash off any potential grit with running water before cleaning your glasses, otherwise those wipes will still scratch them. I never use glasses cleaning wipes for that reason.
I mean sure if you’re covered in mud or something. For general wear and use? Most people aren’t getting grit or sand or heavy dirt particles on their glasses. They’re just getting smudges and water spots and tiny hairs or eye dust.
i’ve had glasses for a little over a year now and this is what i too have been doing since beginning. i thought it would be bad for the lenses and remove the coating but kept on doing it anyway and they are totally fine. i keep a soft cloth in my pocket for little smudges though.
I have acquired Swamp Sight on my work glasses.
Swamp Sight:
A creature with this feat may peer through dirty lenses and objects as if they had true sight and dark vision. If a smudge or other blemish obstructs view, the creature may see through it as if it were not there.
I’m honestly looking at getting Lasik just so I never have to deal with cleaning glasses so often.
I’ve only been wearing glasses for a few months and only when I’m in front of a pc screen. How on earth does anyone keep them clean?
The inside part of your shirt around your waist is usually clean enough to just wipe your glasses clean without any cleaner. Rub in small circular motions until you get the entire lense
I wouldn’t recommend that if you have any special coatings on the lenses. Basically anything but microfiber cloths will scratch the coating.
I have transition lenses, and can confirm that any scratches on transitions are super small and unnoticeable
I’ve just given up.
I’m curious about how some people seem to think it’s a daily task.
Is this is a dust/smog thing?
I think, as another user here pointed out, that it’s more about how long someone has been wearing glasses and therefore how often they accidentally touch them. I’ve only been wearing glasses for about 6 months, so I accidentally touch them several times a day. I have to wipe them clean each time, and I need to wash them clean once or twice a week as the oils build up.
