How to Keep Your Eyewear in Top Shape: Care & Cleaning

Glasses are one of those things we use constantly and clean carelessly. A little bit of care keeps lenses clear, frames comfortable, and your eyewear lasting far longer.

Clean lenses the right way

Most lens damage comes from cleaning wrong, not from accidents. The safe method is simple: rinse or dampen first, then wipe gently. Dry-wiping dust across a lens is the fastest way to scratch it.

• Rinse with lukewarm water, or use a dedicated lens spray.
• Wipe with a clean microfibre cloth or a lens tissue — like our eyeglass cleaning tissues & cloths.
• Never use your shirt, paper towel, or tissue for the face — they're abrasive.
• Avoid household glass cleaners; they can strip lens coatings.

Store them so they survive

Where your glasses live between wears matters as much as how you clean them:

• Use a case — loose glasses in a bag get scratched and bent.
• Set them down lenses-up, never lenses-down on a surface.
• Keep a home for them in the car; a magnetic sunglass holder stops them rattling around.
• Avoid leaving them on a hot dashboard, which can warp frames.

Little maintenance habits

Tighten loose screws promptly, adjust nose pads if they pinch, and give frames a gentle wash now and then. A pair that fits well and stays clean is a pair you'll actually keep wearing — which is the whole point of choosing the right glasses in the first place.

Care extends value

Good eyewear care is really just value protection. A few good habits — rinse before wiping, always use a case, keep a cleaning cloth handy — mean your blue-light glasses stay clear and comfortable for far longer. Small effort, lasting payoff.

A quick daily and weekly routine

Care doesn't need to be a chore. A simple rhythm keeps any pair looking new: a quick, safe wipe when they're smudged during the day, and a slightly more thorough clean once a week. Build it into something you already do — cleaning them while your coffee brews, say — and it becomes effortless.

• Daily: dampen or spray, then wipe gently with a microfibre cloth.
• Weekly: a fuller clean of lenses, frames, nose pads and arms.
• Always: return them to a case when you're not wearing them.

What ruins lenses fastest

The usual culprits are avoidable: dry-wiping grit across the lens, using a shirt hem or rough paper, spraying harsh cleaners that attack coatings, and tossing bare glasses into a bag. Steer clear of those four and you've prevented the vast majority of avoidable scratches and cloudiness.

Comfort maintenance matters too

Clean glasses you don't enjoy wearing still end up in a drawer. If a frame slips, pinches or sits crooked, a small adjustment — or a nose-pad tweak — makes a big difference to whether you actually wear them. Comfort and cleanliness together are what keep a pair in daily use, which is where their value comes from.

Small kit, big payoff

A little cleaning kit — a pack of lens tissues and cloths, a case, and a home for them like a car sunglass holder — costs a fraction of the glasses themselves and keeps them clear and comfortable for years. It's one of the highest-return small habits in this whole store.