Several months after I got really into cycling last year, my friend and cycling guru gave me a fantastic pair of cycling sunglasses.
Over time, they became scratched, and I thought I’d need to replace them. Unfortunately, the brand name had worn off, and I couldn’t find any sunglasses like them when I researched online. However, I was able to piece together some guidance on taking the scratches off my sunglasses, and now they look almost like new.
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This process worked very well on my photochromatic cycling sunglasses, but not so well on a pair of polarized driving glasses that have a thin mirror coating on them. It didn’t hurt anything, but also didn’t do much for the scratches. Therefore, I’d recommend these steps only for sunglasses that don’t have any sort of extra shiny or mirror coating on the lenses.
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- You’ll need a microfiber cloth (which you can get at the dollar store) along with a box of baking soda, which costs about 50 cents at Walmart or Lidl.
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- Rinse the glasses with warm water, then clean both sides of each lens with one corner of the cloth.
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- Mix together some baking soda and water to form a paste, then use another corner of the cloth to gently scrub both sides of each lens of your sunglasses. Make sure you get close to the edges the whole way around.
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- Next, rinse the glasses under warm running water until you’ve removed all of the baking soda.
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- Use another corner of the cloth to dry and polish both sides of the lenses.
How’d this work for you?
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21 comments
A good way to get rid of scratches from sunglasses.
Good tips for removing scratches from glasses
Excellent ways to remove scratches. Definitely going to try it out.
OOOOOH! I have a favorite pair of sunglasses that I barely use anymore because of the scratches. I haven’t been able to bring myself to get rid of them because I love them too much. But they’re kind of useless sitting here, so now I am going to try this and hopefully they will have new life for summer!
Thanks for the instructions!
I would not have even thought this was possible. I’ve thrown away so many sunglasses for this very reason. Thanks for the help
Nice article, thanks for sharing!
Wow, thanks for sharing this awesome tips Beth! Very nice blog and interesting variety of topics. And +1 for Ldil, best regards 😉
Thank you for this post! I have a favorite pair that I can’t bear to part with, so I’ll be trying your techniques to see if I can make them live another season!
We recently “invested” in glass sunglasses in the hope of prolonging their life and having a greater chance of preventing scratches. Even so, good tips here for caring for our expensive glass and plastic sunglasses. Thanks.
Excellent ways to get rid of scratches from the glasses!
Thank you for this tips, good content 🙂
Really helpful tips…
very nice article thanks !
Thank you, especially expensive sunglasses need this as i cant replace them as easily
This summer I bought around 3 pairs of glasses, and all of them have scratches already, and all of them were caused by cycling and rollerblading.
This is interesting. Thanks for the info.
I love this! Thanks for the info.
Excellent article to keep. Very useful tips.
Thanks for sharing this information as before I wasn’t familiar with this term but now I know about it. I’ll definitely work on it according to your tips.
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