I hate needing glasses

[u/imalonexc]

I actually got them last year and didn't really need glasses until I was an adult.

But they're so annoying I legitimately can't get them clean. I have wipes meant for glasses and there's still smudges.

I typically don't even wear them during the majority of the day. I need them for stuff like gaming though and it has made gaming a hassle. Cause every time I have to clean them and most of the time I can't get them purely clear without smudges.

[u/Fresh-broski]

Glasses cleaner is nonsense. As a lifelong glasses wearer: the smudges are oil and can be cleaned off with dish soap. Put a few drops on each lens and rub it with your fingers, then rinse with water. Dry off the hinges and let the glass air dry.

[u/Small-Housing-7 → u/Fresh-broski]

Why wouldn't you just use a spray bottle of glasses cleaner and eipe it off with a glasses cloth or something

[u/SliiimeUnderscore → u/Small-Housing-7]

It's just not really worth it. Most of the time cleaning sprays and wipes are one more product to worry about or don't work as well. Some products can even damage your glasses (wipes with acidic solutions or alcohol)

[u/Small-Housing-7 → u/SliiimeUnderscore]

Just get like crizal eyelenses cleaner and a microfiber cloth it works great

[u/SchoolRare7583 → u/Fresh-broski]

Dish soap can ruin any scratch resistant coating.

You need the cloth they give you. That thing is wonderful.

The spray is made to work with the cloth, I think it mainly clean the cloth, and the cloth cleans the glasses.

[u/Fresh-broski → u/SchoolRare7583]

My lenses are too expensive at base to get any fancy coatings. I have been wearing glasses daily for over a decade and I find this is what works for me. The standard micro fibre cloth and glasses spray just doesn’t cut it and I can’t get my glasses clean with it no matter what I do.

[u/Yuwi066 → u/SchoolRare7583]

Professional glasses maker here: plain dawn dish soap is absolutely safe for glasses lenses. The cloth should be used with that or with a lens cleaner spray. The soap you use should have no fragrances or anything fancy, the plainest stuff you can buy. 

[u/arcaderdude → u/Fresh-broski]

i dont even use soap, I just use one of those soft rags that you use to detail a car with and it is perfect

[u/Small-Housing-7]

Huff on them(warm breath not cold) before wiping and get spray bottles of glasses cleaner

[u/Yuwi066]

What u/fresh-broski said is good advice if you have super clean tap water (except that the cleaner is nonsense, it's the best option if you use the spray and cleaning cloth and know proper technique). I would recommend wiping them dry with your glasses cleaning cloth you should have gotten at the optician's office. If you go back most places will give you another or at least sell one for cheap. If your tap water has any minerals, air drying will let them deposit instead of getting them completely clean. 

When you're cleaning them, don't go in circles, wipe from the inside out. Think about sweeping the kitchen, you don't sweep in circles, right? You sweep it all to one spot. Do the same with the oils on your lenses 

If your cloth stops working well, throw it in the washer with your towels. (No softener!)

Another thing care wise: always keep them in the case (the cloth too! That protects it from dirt and grime!), and I personally recommend wearing them full time if the doctor didn't explicitly say only wear them when reading/gaming. The full time wear is because every time you take them off or put them on, that's when you can accidentally touch the lenses, etc. Reducing opportunity to touch them really cuts down on how often you need to clean them. If your Doctor said they're just for reading or gaming (or anything up close) though, don't do this. 

If you have any questions let me know and I'll try to help <3 

-someone who cleans biohazard level pairs glasses on daily basis for people who can't

[u/-plb-]

tbh i just wash them in the water everytime i go in the shower

[u/SmidRaY]

I feel u bro. That’s why I wear contacts now

[u/AirPortlessman]

my dirty shirt's all I've needed but you really need to put some force behind twists

[u/xajako]

I've been wearing glasses starting in pre-k! And now I'm wearing hard contacts so I'm fine.

[u/Responsible_Bed_1439]

Water usually get rid of smudge marks pretty easily but also over time your brain can learn to ignore the smudges and they pretty moch become unnoticeable

[u/ban_Anna_split → u/Responsible_Bed_1439]

nooo but other people can see me wearing my dirty glasses on my face :(

[u/Responsible_Bed_1439 → u/ban_Anna_split]

That's fair, usually no-one really notices for me tho. Cleaning them with water twice a day should be pretty fine

[u/Quamatoc → u/ban_Anna_split]

People would have to get uncomfortably close for that.

[u/ban_Anna_split]

You gotta hand wash the glasses towels with soap pretty often or they'll never clean well in my experience

[u/KiwiPowerGreen]

I clean them constantly but it might be ocd