I'm fed up with paying £45.80 a litre (well £5.49 for a 120ml bottle) for Boots "Spectacle lens cleaner" but can't find similar cheaper anywhere. What's in this and is there a cheaper version? I like the convenience of the quick squirt and wipe with this sort of spray bottle and don't really want to resort to the soap and water method every day.
Boots "Spectacle
I use two things:
Lidl sachet glasses wipes - very convenient when out and about Washing up liquid and hot water
My optician (who sells an unbranded version of the Boots spray) recommended refilling the bottle once empty with meths. I tried it and it worked well, though you might want to give the smell a second or two to disappear before you put the glases back on.
I just wash mine with soap and water in the shower as required; shake the drops off and as they are warm, by the time I've got out and dressed, they are 100% dry and smear-free.
So that's what you do with your testicals but what about your lenses ;-)
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£shop had some in once. About a gallon of liquid in each sachet. But just get a good quality lens cleaning cloth and carry that about instead.
Well each to there own but I use detergent and running water. Soap I find doesn't clean as well and tends to smear on drying the lenes on a bit of kitchen roll.
I don't like dedicated cleaning cloths or limited quantities of cleaning fluid. Both increase the rate at which scratches appear or the coating wears off as the micro dirt isn't lifted well clear and flushed away.
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I use Solution 30 (aerosol). 400ml for £4.49 from Chemist Direct (they have a carriage charge but I buy a lot of stuff from them).
I also use one drop of detergent in the ultrasonic cleaner.
Isopropyl Alcohol from Maplins. 400 ml for a tenner. I think Wilkos used to do it
IPA? Might not be good on plastic though.
Brian
My optician says paper scratches the lenses, apparently you should use a microfibre cloth or lint-free cotton.
Jonathan
+1.
Paper, even tissue paper, is more abrasive than you might think. Kitchen roll is abrasive enough to clean grease off a pan if used right. I'd not let it anywhere near any form of lens, never mind coated or plastic ones.
Where does yuor water run from, after looking at the state of my old kettle I'd use deionised or distilled water.
My nose tells me otherwise. When I have a cold I use kitchen roll in preference to any tissue, paper handkerchief or loo roll. Use any of the latter I get a snore nose very quickly, use the former I don't.
This is cheap, plain, "value", supermarket kitchen roll. Not the fancy stuff promoted by elephants or able to absorb 20 litres of water per sheet and fall apart.
The problem with reusing a cloth is that it retains the grit from the last cleaning and the cleaning before etc etc. OK if you throughly wash it after every cleaning it might be OK but who does...
Am I the only one to use spit & shirt tail?
Tim
The tap.
Haven't had to descale the kettle since they swapped the source of our water from a local adit (in limestone) to Burnhope Reservoir quite a few years ago.
Even from the adit it wasn't really hard, kettle descale every 3 or 4 months. It was also nice clean white scale not the various greens, blues and whites that we had in St Albans and descaling every month...
Aldi sell a box containing 50 wipes for a quid. Washing up liquid contains salt.
Boots "Spectacle
A previous optician of ours gave us this tip:
Open the dishwasher door when the dishwasher has just finished its cycle, and hold your specs in the steam. Then wipe them with a soft cloth.
Never fails!
When it's inconvenient to carry a dishwasher around with us, we use the little packets of spectacle wipes available from the likes of Lidl and Aldi.
That was what started my anti-scratch/reflective coating coming loose :-(
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