I was an Optician & owned my own business for close to 50 years. I always use alcohol based cleaners due to the coatings. I was always told by the labs that ground lenses for me & the coating companies that alcohol will NOT hurt the coatings. What will mess up the coating is ammonia. This will wear off the coating within a year. Alcohol will not affect the coating. I don't know where they get their info. I have been cleaning my glasses for several years & have had no problem with the coating. My father-in-law has been cleaning with soaps & Windex & the coating is coming off in streaks. I know what I'm talking about.

Keeping my glasses clean has been the bane of my existence. Learned some new tips here! Def need to get those smooth microfiber cloths to dry off my glasses after washing! Thank you for the helpful video!

Bravo! As someone who has worked in the eyecare feel I can confirm these tips! Only things I would recommend is swapping put your cloths every so often to keep from reintroducing grime and dirt to your lenses and if you aren't able to get your glasses clean this way ask your eye dr if they have an ultrasonic machine they can clean your glasses with!

“A drop on each side” That’s enough to clean 10 lbs of dishes!

I’ve been wearing glasses for over 60 years. I’ve always washed them with water and soap but I don’t put the soap on the glasses. I put the soap in my clean hands and create suds like I’m washing my hands again, then I wash the glasses in between my sudsy hands. Much easier to rinse them instead of dripping liquid soap directly on the glasses! 😆👍

Dawn is simply the best for everything! Worship the stuff...

I have been doing this method of cleaning my glasses for years. kudos for sharing the right way to the public

Dawn cleans everything!!!!

Brandon said it’s Noah, right? I like the way he explained things, hopefully he’ll do a video every once in a while

I use velvet soap, it helps prevent the lenses from fogging up. This was particularly helpful during the pandemic when masks were necessary.

I was taught this method for cleaning lenses over 40 years ago by someone who designed and built optics for several space missions. For eyeglasses it is simple and better than any alternative.

After thoroughly cleaning and rincing with warm water as described, I simply reduce the water flow to a very thin thread of colder water and use this to bring down the leftover droplets on each surface. The colder temperature reduces the surface tension of the water. No wiping is necessary AT ALL. I may have to wick the small amount of water left around the frame with a clean towel being careful to not touch the lens surface. This may seem obsessive-compulsive but the lens don't mind.

I've already invested in those cloths. I don't use any product on them and they clean my glasses crystal clear! Those cloths also perform a mean polish on my earrings and necklaces as well! TFS!

Thanks for this. I tried Dawn to clean my glasses years ago and found it to be the best end result as well as fastest and easiest. However, I prefer an air duster rather than cloth drying.

This is the exact method I started using a while ago and it is by far the best.

I have a little spray bottle and use distilled water and a couple drops of Dawn. I spray my glasses before putting them on and use microfiber cloths to dry. One side of the cloth has longer fibers so use that with the spray to clean, then use the other side with shorter fibers to buff streak free.

How on earth do my glasses get so filthy on the inside? Do my eyeballs spit on them? 😭

Noah did an amazing job on the other side of the camera!

Thank you for this video! I have scratched up NUMEROUS pairs of glasses over the years. Noah did a fantastic job! Ive recently found this channel and am loving all the tips!

I’ve been washing my glasses daily this way for donkey’s years, ever since a Moorfield’s Eye Hospital ophthalmologist recommended this as his best way to keep his glasses in their optimum condition and haven’t looked back. So easy.

This is what I do and I don't even have to use that much soap. I use tissue but need to try the eyeglass cloth. Thanks for this video!

This is exactly how I clean my glasses!! It just came intuitively to me. And today this video came as a recommendation. Glad to know I'm doing it right🙂

I use puppy fur cloths... work great and have introduced many friends and family to them. I keep many on hand and wash and dry often... be sure to follow instructions and not use fabric softener. I keep the small (5") cloths all around my home to use on computer screens, cell phones, as well as the eyeglasses. The Dawn method is great... I will occasionally use it on my glasses but then follow up with the puppy fur. Also, my husband and I finally discovered, after MANY other methods, that washing with a Dawn and warm water solution, then following up with wiping with the puppy fur was the solution to cleaning the plexiglass panels on our chandelier! Nothing else worked, but Dawn, water, and puppy fur!

Please do next: the best way to clean your cloth.

Great video. I find that a lot of the time, cleaning the lenses in the way you describe with warm water only works perfectly and avoids leaving any residue on the surface of the glass that needs to be rinsed off. I also make a point of cleaning my glasses after cooking, as this is the one daily activity that dirties my glasses the most. In this case, I do use soap, since this is best at removing the grease that condenses on the lenses.

This one was particularly helpful and informative, thanks! Is there anything Dawn products can't clean?! Nice to see Noah narrating today 😊

just wanna make sure the points are: wash it your lenses with water to clean the dust then use a dish soap that removes the oily things like sweaty or whatever it is and rinse it u can dry it with facial tissue, make sure use the soft one, so that not scratching the lenses. or... just go to the nearest optic or if u have it, just clean it with ultrasonic cleaner, contains water and some dishsoap as well

Very good advice. I am totally guilty of the old t-shirt wipe 'em up.

This was so helpful (and everyone has Dawn!), thank you! Q: is there a correct way to wash and clean the lens microfiber cloths? Thanks.

I have two extra steps in my glasses cleaning routine: 1. I use a microfiber cloth with soap. Using a soft microfiber cloth is much safer than using a finger. 2. I use a dust blower bulb to remove water drops from the lenses and frame. Then, I use a soft cloth to wipe the drops from the frame. Wiping almost dry glasses with a high-quality microfiber cloth makes them really shine.

There's another consideration about using an alcohol-free cleaning solution. Polycarbonate lenses (which includes most plastic eyeglass lenses these days) will develop cracks around the edges if exposed repeatedly to isopropyl alcohol. Also, polycarbonate lenses by default have an anti-scratch coating because the polycarbonate material scratches easily.

I’ve heard Dawn isn’t recommended as a car wash, because it cleans SO effectively that it erodes wax & clear coat layers. If this is so, then it’s hard to imagine it wouldn’t also compromise the coatings on glasses.

What about those alcohol based cleaner made for glasses/they sell with new pair of glasses?

Coming from having the most scratched up lenses ever, I found making sure you use that smooth microfiber cloth to be the biggest difference. Of course, washing it with Dawn helps remove the extra dirt and grime, but those scratches occurred and coating came off for me most when I didn’t use the right cloth.

I use lens spray or wipes specifically for glasses. I haven't had any issues whatsoever.

Been doing this for years & its the best! ❤

Wow, I had no idea! I will be using dawn from now on and cleaning my glasses correctly! Thank you very much!😊

Thanks for confirming my suspicions about rubbing alcohol! But, how do I clean the eye glass cloth?? When should you throw it away??

Is there a video on how to clean the microfiber cloth?

Very basic and useful tips! Thank you

Oh damn!! I guess I can't use steel wool anymore.

Dawn's new slogan "Dawn it cleans (almost) everything" Dawn's marketing dept. Is missing out on a golden opportunity. They need to ask to license your work on their website.

Love this! Just found your channel and I will be a subscriber now! I'm so excited to see what else I can learn. Women's glasses get even dirtier because of our makeup and mascara when our eyelashes brush against the lenses all throughout the day. This was definitely a video that I personally needed!❤❤❤

I wash my glasses everyday after taking shower. I use hand soap to wash the lenses and frame. To dry it, I use my freshly washed cotton underwear, nothing beat the softness of old freshly washed underwear 😂

This is how I clean my glasses, but I shake as much of the water off as possible. I have found it's also important to store the cloths somewhere that they won't have dust landing on them or the dust ends up on my glasses. I don't rub my glasses with the cloth, just lightly touch the cloth to any droplets of water left on the lenses

Dawn is the USA equivalent of Fairy Liquid. Both are made by Proctor and Gamble and are detergents. I do not know the exact ingredients but they both contain a colouring agent (one is blue, the other is green) and an added fragrance. I would suggest that the two products are effectively the same.

I don't wear glasses but I do wear sunglasses and I'm happy to see I've been cleaning them correctly all along.

great video, I only have sunglassess, but I only cleaned them with the lens cloth. The only question: how to clean the lens cloths?

Foaming hand soap works great and is easier to rinse off. Probably just as “safe” as dawn.

Thank you. Blessings to you.

Agree - that's the best way to clean eye glasses, but rinse I start with moderately easy warm water but finish with cold water. That way no water stains remain.

A month ago? I watched some Nokia recorded video with the same advice on like 2012 and been following this advice since, only dish soap and that's that, my glasses go YEARS without a single scratch, in fact it made me start using my hands to clean the dishes until the culterly is "squeaky clean"

That’s what I do!!😊

If you have thin frames that don't pool up water, the best way to dry the glasses is just running water. Put the tap on the lowest possible pressure while still maintaining a consistent stream of water. Then just carefully rinse the lens top to bottom, letting the water carry all droplets away with it. Zero chance of smudges or scratches, and you don't need to have a cloth nearby. Then you can dry the frames on anything you have handy.

They can manufacture real crystal scratch proof glasses. But scratchy plastics are cheaper to grind to focus So we have to be extra careful about wiping glasses. Whereas our grandparents got away wiping with with their shirtsleeves on real glass lenses.

Just hot water + soap + mini air blower - and you go!

Common sense isn't common. No one could figure this out until this video...amazing.

I just put my specs under running soft tap water and clean it with very soft tissue. Not a single scratch on my lens. 5 years running strong❤

I buy lens cleaning solution from the optometrist, and then use a plain tissue with the splution, followed by a polish with a microfibre lens cloth. Thats how the optometrist taught me.

Good old DAWN, a must have in every house.

My optometrist also recommended to clean my glasses primarily in the evening. The reason is that there are aggressive substances from your skin, eyebrows, etc that can over time damage the coatings, so it is important to clean that away as soon as possible instead of letting it on the lenses over night.

use old toothbrush while rinsing helps a lot especially the tight corners

Probably a silly question but … How do you properly clean a dry microfibre lens cloths? Best place to store them? Lost the case my glasses came in a couple years ago so I don’t have a convenient place to put them.

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I keep a little bottle of Dawn in my shower. When I shower I wash my glasses. Two birds…………

I just put a drop of dish liquid on my forefinger and thumb. Also, if you rinse your glasses without leaving any drops on the lens, you won't need to dry with a cloth. Just rinse and go.

Why did I watch this? I don't even use glasses haha. Still super informative. I can now tell people they're doing it wrong

I’ve been cleaning my glasses with dawn dish soap and blowing them off with canned air for decades. No scratches, ever. Micro fiber can be used once, then hey are filthy.

Instead of cloths of any type, I use my air duster. It's very efficient and no risk of any scratching from a cloth. It's like a small car wash dryer for my glasses.

What about zeiss lens wipes, that's what I always use. Sometimes it takes me multiple wipes to get a lens clean, but hasn't seemed to damage them at all.

Re-using microfibre cloths is no good because they pick up particulate matter over time which scratches the coatings. So the best thing is you'd have to launder/wash them in between every use. Your glasses most likely got the worst of the scratches from using your shirt which probably had tons of small grain particulate that was doing a number on them. Paper towels might be a bit rough but there's nothing wrong with (non-lotion) tissues as long as they are fresh and not re-used. I used to do that for a while but couldn't stand the waste so now I use one of those very high pressure air blowers like what you can get for cleaning computer keyboards and drying glasses off with air only. In this way nothing EVER rubs up against my lenses other than water & soapy fingers and thumbs. It's really the best way to ensure NO scratches from cleaning can ever happen.

What about those pre-mpistened lens wipes? I use those every morning (and I use them on my smartphone, too) since I'm always in a hurry to get to work.

It's the eyelashes often causing the inside oil smudging. Like some else said, also putting them on top of your head. I even know someone who uses hair spray with her glasses on.

Also, I clean my glasses at night before bedtime. If I need to get up quickly or for an emergency I can see clearly.😊

Plain soap like Velvet (Sunlight) will do the trick!

The fact that this showed up in my feed 20 minutes after I told my friend in Discord that I needed to clean my glasses before I could look at something on their screen is kind weird

I wash my glasses in the 90 seconds it takes for hot water to get to the bathroom sink with these differences: Start with cold water (the hot arrives later), use foaming hand soap which rinses faster than Dawn and is not too much, daily washing just the lens will also "magically" keep the rest frames clean too. 🤓

Very cool i will try this on my husbands glasses, he usually uses the cleaning wipes from the optometrists.

I've been cleaning my glasses with a window cleaner. Apparently window cleaners are not as strong in my country than in America. I've had the same pair of glasses for over 15 years. You don't want to pick up any debris inside the cloth. That will scratch. The sink scrubber will definitely have pieces of soil in it from vegetables and planters and will even scratch glass. Paper has rough inclusions.

How do you clean those microfiber cloths?

Awesome! Now THAT’S the way to clean your glasses! Great job! Although in a pinch, there will be times when you’ll have to use toilet paper or tissue paper

I use a gentle body wash.. It works awesome

Another game changer is to look up the sheeting effect. By rinsing with a slow but steady stream from the sink I'm able to get my lenses almost completely dry with no or little need to use my cloth.

This week I bought antibacterial wipes for my new hearing aid - recommended by my ear specialist. They are great for glasses, too. I got Medi swabs (used to clean the skin prior to an injection.) I'm vulnerable to infection.

I use Nice 'n Clean Smudge Guard Lens Cleaning Wipes and Microfiber clothes!

Actually, any dishwasher can be used. I use any, later y dry with a clean cotton fabrica and finish the dry with a soft tissue paper like a cleanex.

I tend to hand wash with normal hand soap. I use a normal towel although this probably isn't the best - I think pretty much the same as cleaning vinyl records. Paper is an absolute no-no.

I’ve been doing this ever since I got glasses without knowing it’s the right way. I just didn’t wanna buy a glass cleaner solution 😂

Hi I have a request for a cleanup. Do you have any video for how to clean a lifetime table?

All spot on!

Thank Q so much, its exactly what i been practising all tis while, it confirms my belief that im doing it the right way even though i wasnt too sure if its really really the best!😂😂

Are commercial eye glass cleaners as good or better than Dawn detergent? I would think that since they are formulated especially for eye glasses and not a good all around product to clean anything and everything, that they would be better. I’m I wrong?

Thanks for tips and will try this but have concerns about coating and if dawn really works on the lens so am hesitant but curious. Like how you explained steps but perhaps you could also mention other options or ways. Keep up the nice work and appreciate your style or delivery

I assume blue dawn dish soap is american, so what can I use instead in eu?

With eyeglasses sometimes costing $500. or so, it makes sense to extend their lifespan, by cleaning them properly! A few years ago, I couldn't find my micro-fiber cloth & used a tissue to clean them & couldn't believe how scratched they got, from that one mistake! p.s. I noticed that the scratches temporarily disappear if you let them dry, on their own!

One extra tip: I've found that non-concentrated blue Dawn dish soap is easier to wash off the lenses than regular concentrated Dawn.

Dawn and a can of compressed air from your local camera department. Even a blow dryer will work cool / full blast. I have an air compressor so that's my choice of air. Absolutely zero streaks.

Since I'm extremely near sighted I'm wearing my classes in the shower. I just use my shower gel to do that.

If you are busy and don't have time, put it in dishwasher. Kidding 😂😉

Good advice,but at the end,I use an electric air duster to dry my glasses. It is super fast,and nothing but clean air touches the lens.