I rarely wash my glasses with soap and water, maybe once every month or two. I DO regularly wipe them with a cloth, usually my tshirt. My nose pads have never turned green in 60 years of wearing glasses.
I’ve had this with cheap sunglasses that use copper screws to keep the pads on. The green is the copper oxidizing. Cleaning them would only make it worse as you’re just exposing the copper to water.
Interesting point. I wash mine everyday. Water and diluted dish soap. The frames have titanium–but I bet the mounting posts on the silicon pads are the ones that are oxidizing!
Does nobody actually wash their glasses regularly? I’ve never had a pair of glasses have their nose pads turn any color.
I rarely wash my glasses with soap and water, maybe once every month or two. I DO regularly wipe them with a cloth, usually my tshirt. My nose pads have never turned green in 60 years of wearing glasses.
I’ve had this with cheap sunglasses that use copper screws to keep the pads on. The green is the copper oxidizing. Cleaning them would only make it worse as you’re just exposing the copper to water.
mine are antimicrobial plastic, so I don’t really need to that often, maybe a couple times a year when the corners get to gunky
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Interesting point. I wash mine everyday. Water and diluted dish soap. The frames have titanium–but I bet the mounting posts on the silicon pads are the ones that are oxidizing!