Portable Eyeglass Lens Cleaner with Dry Carbon Pads

Streak-free lenses in one swipe, wherever you are

Pull it from your pocket, clip it over the lens, sweep once from the center out. Both sides of the lens come out crystal clear in about three seconds, with zero spray, zero cloth and zero drying streaks. It is the same dry carbon-pad method the pros use, shrunk to a tool that lives in a jacket, a handbag or the glove box.

That is the difference between glasses that are clean at home and glasses that are clean at the moment they go cloudy, in the car, at your desk, halfway through a meal.

Your shirt hem is grinding the smudge in

Everyone does it: lift the hem, wipe, hold them up to the light, and find the same haze slightly rearranged. Cotton drags skin oil around a coated lens instead of lifting it, and pushes whatever grit was sitting there across the coating. Spray bottles leak in a bag, run out at the wrong moment and leave a film as they dry.

The carbon pads lift the oil off the lens, so the haze is gone instead of moved, and the lens is dry and clear the instant you let go.

Both sides of the lens, in one pass

It is a pincer. A soft carbon pad closes over each face of the lens at the same time, so the side against your eye gets cleaned with the side you look through. The pads are contoured to the curve of a lens, which is why they keep contact right into the edge of the frame where a folded cloth skips.

The brush end protects the coating you paid for

A grain of sand under a cloth is what scratches a lens. The other end of the tool is a soft brush: one flick takes the loose grit off before the pads touch the glass, so you are lifting oil rather than sanding a coating. Anti-reflective, polarized and tinted lenses, glass or plastic, all clean the same way.

Zero sprays, zero cloths, hundreds of cleanings

There is zero liquid in it, so there is zero to leak, spill or run out. Between uses the cleaner snaps into its own capsule case, which keeps the pads clean in a pocket and re-coats them ready for the next lens. One tool is good for hundreds of cleanings, and the whole thing is about 3.7 in long, so it lives in a jacket, a handbag or a glove box rather than a drawer at home.

What it handles

• Fingerprints, skin oils, makeup and the everyday haze that builds up over a day
• Anti-reflective, polarized and tinted lenses, glass or plastic
• Prescription glasses, readers, sunglasses, safety glasses and ski goggles
• Phone screens, camera lenses and watch faces

Phone screens, camera lenses and watch faces too

Press one pad flat and it works the same way on a phone screen, a camera lens or a watch face. That is usually what turns it from something you bought for your glasses into something you reach for a few times a day, and why the second one tends to end up on a desk.

How to use it

1. Flick the loose grit off with the brush end. This is the step that protects the coating.
2. Pull the tool out of its case and clip the two pads over the lens.
3. Sweep gently from the center outward, a few passes per lens.
4. Snap it back into the case, which re-coats the pads for next time.

Keep it dry: brush, clip, cap. The carbon film does the cleaning, and keeping it away from water is what keeps it working for hundreds of lenses.

In the box

• One dry carbon lens cleaner with its pads already fitted
• Its snap-on capsule case, about 3.7 in (9.5 cm) long
• An instruction card
• Three colors: gold,  black and White

Buy two. That is the advice buyers give.

The one that lives in the glove box is the one you use. Buyers keep one on the table, one in the bag and one by the bed, because the entire point is that it is within reach at the moment the lens goes cloudy, rather than at home next to the spray bottle. At this price, a second one is the easy call.

Frequently asked questions

Streak-free lenses in one swipe, wherever you are. Pick a color and put one in your pocket.