Eye glasses care

Hi guys,

I use to wear spectacles. Every day when I reach office I bring them out of my bag & wish that I need not to clean them. But everyday I found that dirt is playing cricket on my spectacle glasses. I can see the dirt on my glasses. Sometime I wear them as it is without cleaning them but its not a good practise. It can be harmful for our eyes. So I use to clean them everyday.

Now I went to different opticians & spectacles vendors & everybody give some tips to me to keep my glasses clean. I got so many tips that I got confused which one is good. So I started surfing net to see which is the good way to clean the spectacles. I found one interesting article about it. Here are the important extract of the article which can help you to clean your spectacles:

Step 1- So your spectacles are dirty?
You need to go to the next washing room as you will need some water, preferably warm, a bit of soap and some tissue or toilet paper.

Step 2 - Pre-showering the spectacles
Hold your spectacles under flowing water so the lenses get wet from both sides ! Do not touch the lenses!

Step 3 - Get a bit of soap on your fingers
Liquid soap is perfect, but also any other will do. Right handlers use the right hand and left handlers ?
Get a bit of soap on your index, thumb and middle finger. Disperse the soap a bit on the fingers so the surface gets soft and slippery.
 
Step 4 - soap your pair of spectacles
Now gently take the lenses of your spectacles between the soaped fingers and gently move your fingers to disperse the soap on both sides of the lenses. It is NOT necessary to press and rub like a maniac -- no gently please, because your lenses should NOT be scratched. So once again soap gently,gently.
 
Step 5 - The after-shower - wash off the soap from the lenses
Now if possible turn the heat on to get very hot water also let the water flow strongly. Hold your spectacles into the water stream to wash off the soap. Do not hold the lenses in a 90° angle to the stream of water, because then you will get yourself a shower.
Better the water flows almost parallel to the lens surface. You might shift the angle a bit from one side to the other to wash away the soap from both sides of the lenses. Do not touch the lenses !
 
Step 6 - Finale grosso - using tissue if necessary
If the water has been hot enough it will evaporate immediately after you have removed the glasses from the water stream and you alredady done.
If there are some drops of water still. Take a peace of tissue between those fingers which should be free of soap meantime! Then slightly dab the tissue on the water drops to take them away. Please do not rub the glasses!
 
Step 7 - Enjoy clear sight
Clear sight is not for ever(yone) of course, but it is nice to have it at least for an hour or so !
 
Note: Do not rub or polish your eyeglasses it is unnecessary. At best it will damage your glasses!!
 
Along with this I like to mention about two important tips about our eye glasses:
(1) Never leave your eye glasses in dash board or on dash board of your car. Always try to keep your ey glasses behind front seat. When car get hot dash board area get more hot than other areas. It can damage the screen film of your glasses. This is applicable for all types of glasses including branded.
(2) When you are cleaning your glasses, always clean them in one direction. Do not try left right left right motion or to & from motion while cleaning the glasses. Always move from right to left or left to right while cleaning your glasses. It will help to reduce the scratches on you eye glasses.
 
 
I hope this small post help you guys to maintain your eye glasses in a good shape. Keep reading & enjoy.