How to clean Reading Prescription Glasses

If you wear prescription reading glasses then this article “How to clean your prescription glasses is especially for you!

I've found that prescription glasses need to changed every year or so and they need to be upgraded every year or so.

I wear prescription reading glasses and getting them clean and then keeping the glasses clean is a battle.

Prescription glasses are expensive and so they deserve to be looked after.

Wearing glasses covered in smears reduces the effectiveness of them.  Sometimes, when I'm wearing them, I think my eye sight has deteriorated, but no, its that they need cleaning.  Who wants to view the world through a fog?

So how should you safely clean prescription glasses?

First I’ll mention how you shouldn’t clean your reading glasses.

• Your glasses should never be cleaned dry. Cleaning eyeglasses lens when they are dry increases the likelihood of scratches.
• Is it OK to clean your eye glasses with tissues?

In a word “no” it’s not OK to regularly clean your eye glasses with tissues.

If you’re one of the many who use tissues, the bottom of your shirt or the corner of the sheet, you should stop using that method now!

Why? Tissues are made from wood fibres and even though tissues are highly processed there is the likelihood of scratching your expensive prescription glasses.

You probably won’t see these scratches immediately but overtime the friction and fibers just may cover your eyeglasses with tiny scratches rendering them useless.

Likewise tiny particles embedded in sundry other clothing can damage your prescription reading glasses.

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Soap and Water

To be honest, when I first heard that soap and water is the best way to clean your eyewear, I was incredibly skeptical.

But I tried it and it works!

There are a few tricks to using this method so that your eyewear is free of smears.

• Put your glasses under cold running water.
• Rub a little soap on your damp fingers and rub your glasses. Then shake dry.
• Alternatively you could blow on your glasses to dry them. This usually cleans them.
• Use only cold water.

Sometimes, though even after following this method you may still have some smears. You can then use a micro fiber cloth.

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