Streak-free glass cleaner
Equal parts vinegar and water. The most reliable residue-free mix there is, and the reason it works is the second, dry cloth.
- Storage
- Keeps 180 days
- Effectiveness
- Excellent
- Environmental impact
- High
Warning
- Warning: Never on marble, limestone or other natural stone. Vinegar is an acid and these surfaces are calcium-based: it etches them permanently rather than cleaning them.
- Caution: Never on a phone, laptop or TV screen — the anti-reflective coating is dissolved by both vinegar and alcohol.
- Caution: Leave the essential oils out. A few drops of citrus smell pleasant and leave exactly the residue on your microfibre that this mixture exists to avoid.
- FlammableBecause this uses Isopropanol
- Harmful / irritantBecause this uses White vinegar
Mix everything in a spray bottle. Distilled or previously boiled water is worth the trouble here: it is the minerals in tap water that dry into the streaks you are trying to avoid.
Spray onto the cloth, never onto the glass — sprayed on the glass it runs into frames and seals, dries there and streaks.
Wipe with a low-GSM flat-weave cloth, then immediately dry with a second, completely dry one. Drying before the liquid evaporates by itself is what makes the difference, not the mixture.
Safe on / Never use on
Safe on
- Glass
- Chrome
- Ceramic
Never use on
- Coated screen
- Natural stone
- Marble