Extend the Life of Your Eyeglass Lenses With Proper Cleaning Techniques

The majority of eyeglasses today are fitted with plastic lenses. Even if your lenses are made of glass, you can follow the same techniques outlined in the following to get the maximum life from your eyeglass lenses.

Plastic lens material is soft and can be easily scratched by the grit and grime that makes its way onto our eyeglass lenses at work or in our everyday life. If you have a higher power prescription your eyeglass lenses may also be expensive to replace if damaged so getting the longest life from your glasses just makes sense.

Making your eyeglass lenses last to your next eye exam doesn’t take a lot of extra effort and taking just a little bit more time to clean them properly will reward you with the best possible vision through the life of the lens. There is nothing worse than having to look through annoying scratches or even worse yet, having to replace the lenses before your next scheduled eye exam. With proper handling, you can extend the life of your lenses almost indefinitely but at least until the next change in your prescription.

Here is what you need to do in four easy steps. (Resist the urge to try to wipe dry lenses clean with a shirt tailor with a paper napkin, or other cleaning cloth.) To clean your lenses the best way:

1) First, rinse the lens thoroughly with water. Alternatively, spray lens cleaning solutions on the lenses liberally.

2) Second, use your fingers to gently rub mild hand soap or the lens solution around the lens surfaces, the lens edges, and the frame and nose pads, working up a soapy lather. Be careful to avoid rubbing too long in any spot.

3) Rinse away the soap (or lens cleaning solution) so that crystal clear plastic lenses and a few droplets of water are all that remain on your glasses. The lens cleaning solution is designed to be dried off without rinsing if you don’t have a source of water.

4) Gently dab away the water (or lens cleaning solution) from the lens, frame and nose pads with a clean, soft and absorbent cloth towel. Avoid wiping the lens dry to avoid smearing the lens with water streaks

That is it! All you need is mild soap and water. However, you can use special lens cleaning agents sold and provided by eyeglass retailers and your optometrist. You can also use a clean microfiber cleaning cloth available from the same vendors. Avoid using Windex or glass cleaning compounds. They often contain chemicals like ammonia that can damage plastics and coatings applied to lenses. Despite popular advice to the contrary, it is OK to use a paper towel or tissue to dab a lens dry. The problem begins when you rub the lens with paper products since they are coarse and can add small scratches to the lens or lens coating surface.

Scratches get added to your plastic eyeglass lenses largely due to poor handling and cleaning. When not being worn, you should also avoid resting the glasses on the lens surfaces. Remember to clean them with ample water and mild soap, and dab them dry to extend their life. If you can avoid adding cleaning scratches to the lenses of your eyeglasses you can extend the life of the lens, maintain better vision through the lens for the life of your eyeglasses, and it doesn’t take much more effort than washing your hands. You do wash your hands, don’t you?

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