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.
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.
This is the real answer
I’m honestly looking at getting Lasik just so I never have to deal with cleaning glasses so often.
I got LASIK earlier this year. It’s an expensive solution to the many small inconveniences that glasses have, but totally worth it imo.
I went from -5.25 with mild astigmatism to 20/15 eagle vision basically overnight.
I wipe my glasses with Sparkle and a microfiber cloth. We must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Paying my mortgage
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.
I just wipe the lenses on my shirt, and blast them under a tap every so often to clean.
Wore glasses for almost my whole life. Never touch them with your hands, don’t splatter foods when eating, position them so your lashes don’t touch them if possible. I always keep some microfiber cloths and lens cleaning solution at my desk.
But got lasik over a year ago. Sure the dry eyes are a pain in dry weather, but it’s nicer than not having to worry about smudging my glasses. Also, even though there is some light flaring at night if my eyes are dry, it’s not as bad as when I get them with glasses that have microscratches on them.
I still notice when other people who have glasses have smudges all over them and they seem to not be bothered by it. Even I’m bother by seeing it imagining how bad everything must look. Hell, even a speck of dust annoys me while wearing glasses if it’s in the right spot.
I keep a microfiber cloth with me always and wipe the lenses 2-5 times a day.
Honestly not too much effort and they’re consistently pretty clean
You’ll find that this invites scratches in your lens coatings, with minute bits of dust and sand embedding themselves into the cloth.
Microfiber’s strength is also its weakness: being so good at trapping material that it never lets them go, even after washing.
Beware.
After a couple years there are minor scratches but, they’re largely still in very good shape
