Clean Eyeglasses the Cheap and Effective Way With Dryer Sheets
Instead of spending money on cleaner solutions and cloths to clean your eye glasses, check out this more frugal approach — a used dryer sheet!
There’s plenty of different cleaner solutions and cloths for eyeglasses on the market. Some more expensive than others. But a lot of times, they can end up making glasses more smudged and harder to clean in the end. Of course, anyone who wears glasses is guilty of trying to clean them off with the corner of your shirt. This is one of the worst methods, because it can scratch the lenses, and doesn’t do a good job anyway.
The method I’ve found that works best (which I learned from my Mom btw), is using a dryer sheet.
STOP! Before you run off and experiment, don’t use a fresh dryer sheet out-of-the-box. Those have too much of the softener and goop on them, and will smear them up. Instead, use a sheet you’ve ran through a load of laundry and use it to clean your glasses! No chemicals are required, and I’ve found it actually does a remarkable job.
The first thing I thought was a dryer sheet would scratch the lenses, but it doesn’t. Just clean your glasses like you would with a microfiber cloth, and you’re good to go. Give it a try, and make your glasses Bounty Fresh! For more discussion on this, check out our free forums.
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Steve Krause
February 15, 2013 at 3:54 pm
Awesome Tip. I’m going to give this a try on my Sun Glasses. I’m always losing my Microfilter Cloth…
Brian Burgess
February 15, 2013 at 9:33 pm
Yup, just make sure to use it after you run a load of laundry through the dryer cycle.
Steve Krause
February 18, 2013 at 10:57 am
Um yeah dude. I got that. ;)
Louie
February 17, 2013 at 4:40 am
Cool … i am one of those who use their shirt corners too. I will definitely give this a try!
Thanks.
Jack Busch
February 17, 2013 at 7:13 pm
Excellent. I just balled up three of these, about to throw them away when I remembered this tip. Tried it out. It works!
Steve Krause
February 18, 2013 at 10:58 am
Hey that’s awesome. Now does it leave lint and stuff or are they free of dust?
The ones we have are linen so that kinda explains why this works so well.
Paul Fullilove
February 18, 2013 at 11:13 am
It works for me.
Tony
February 19, 2013 at 3:17 am
Just popped my Raybans in the washing machine. Lets see what happens ….
Brian Burgess
February 19, 2013 at 5:28 pm
LOL
Walter
March 3, 2013 at 7:21 pm
Must be a Texas Aggie!
BigFED01
September 28, 2017 at 7:37 am
I hope he at least took them off first!
Dwayne Larson
March 27, 2018 at 10:24 pm
Having the Correct Glasses Cleaner or One That Really Works- I’d Always Heard of The MAGIC PROPERTIES of Used Dryer Sheets-
Well, Using The Cleaner & Cloth Method
Always Seemed to Make My Glasses a MAGNET to SMUDGES, Streaks & Cloudines
WELL, Used Dryer Sheets are a REAL MIRACLE Lens Cleaner—
THANKS!
Be Loud
January 21, 2023 at 4:32 pm
My optometrist said the microfibers scratch eyeglasses. He advised to not even use cloth that has been in the dryer with a dryer sheet to clean eyeglasses.