Avoid damaging your expensive eyeglasses!

If you wear eyeglasses, you know how unconformable it is to have dirt or grease stuck on the lenses. Besides clouding your vision, it can make you prone to suffer from recurring skin and eye infections.

Creating a daily cleaning routine for your eyeglasses is not only beneficial for your overall eye and skin health but also prevents your expensive spectacles from getting damaged.

Breathing on your lenses and wiping them off with paper napkins or the edge of your shirt are among the most common mistakes that people make when cleaning their eyeglasses. First, you are transferring the germs from your mouth to the spectacles. Second, those materials are coarse and can scratch the surface of the lenses.

Similarly, opting for water with white vinegar, dishwasher soap, or chemical-heavy cleaners and wipes prior to removing dirt and particles, wears away the lenses’ coating overtime.

How to clean your eyeglasses?

Cleaning your eyeglasses should be simple, fast, and pose no harm to you, your eyewear, or the environment. Here is a simple daily routine using Foame:

1. Wash your hands with water and soap
2. Run water over your eyeglasses
3. Apply Foame and gently scrub the lenses and frame with your fingertips, paying special attention to the nose pad and ear clips
4. Thoroughly rinse the eyeglasses under running water
5. Shake them off lightly to remove excess water
6. Carefully dry them using a soft facial tissue without any lotion. We recommend regular Kleenex or Kirkland tissues

Why is important to have a cleaning routine for your eyewear?

Eyeglasses that are not cleaned daily become a reservoir for pathogens, in particular those areas with direct skin contact, such as the nose pads and ear clips. According to this study[1] from 2018, spectacles were found to be contaminated by bacteria, including the type that causes staph infections. Sounds disgusting, right?

The good news is that the study also demonstrated that cleaning your eyeglasses regularly with specialized, antibacterial, and non-alcoholic products like Foame significantly reduces the microbial load, helps prevent the bacterial transfer, and avoids the sensitive parts and materials of the spectacles from getting damaged.

Foame is a foaming lens shampoo carefully designed to keep your eyeglasses crystal clear and free of germs. Its revolutionary formula kills 99% of bacteria that can cause eye irritation without scratching the lenses or damaging the coating. It is ammonia-free, PH balanced, biodegradable, and environmentally friendly.

The best? It disinfects the frame as well as the lenses. This is important because recent research[2] showed that the areas in close contact with your eyeglasses (behind the ears, the sides of the nostrils, and the forehead) represent the highest density of microbial colonization on the human face. You don’t want to add more germs to the breeding ground by wearing unclean spectacles, do you?

If you want to have a clear vision, prevent eye infections, exhibit healthy skin, and steer away from dermatological conditions, cleaning your eyeglasses with Foame’s unique formula should become a part of your daily routine.

[1] A view to a kill? – Ambient bacterial load of frames and lenses of spectacles and evaluation of different cleaning methods

[2] Quantitation of Major Human Cutaneous Bacterial and Fungal Populations & Structure, Function and Diversity of the Healthy Human Microbiome