03/02/2026
Have you gotten new glasses and thought, “wow not as clear as it looked in the exam with my doctor!”? One of the biggest reasons why your vision will be blurrier in cheap glasses is the material and coatings. To make glasses inexpensively, you have to cut corners. Properly made glare coatings have multiple layers to reduce reflections and glare from multiple wavelengths of light, and these coatings are embedded within the lens material so they won’t just scratch off. A hard top scratch coating will be applied during the manufacturing process and then thermally cured to lock it in. Cheaply made glasses will easily scratch because the scratch coating is sprayed on or applied without a thermal lock. Even high quality glasses will eventually scratch if you clean them with the wrong materials - Kleenex and paper towels will tear your glasses right up! A gentle microfiber cloth and some diluted dawn detergent to clean away stubborn oils is all you need.
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