Safety glasses can be your only savior from an eye injury or permanent blindness. Whether because you work in a hot and humid environment or you wear a face mask or maybe you are just sweating.
Foggy safety glasses will distract you from your task and can be dangerous especially for soldiers during combat, police officers, first responders to emergency situations, Doctors, and workers in workshops while using sharp tools.
To keep your safety glasses from fogging up you have two options, apply an anti-fog coating on the lenses or prevent warm, moist air from landing on the lenses.
Why Do Safety Glasses Fog Up in the First Place?
Safety glasses lenses can fog up if warm moist air lands on a cold lens surface, cools, and then changes into tiny drops of liquid, forming a film that you see as fog.
The 5 Tips to Keep Your Safety Glasses From Fogging Up
- Apply Anti-fog Coating on the Lenses
- Use Anti-Fog Cloths
- Spray Anti-fog Lens Cleaner on the Lenses
- Use a Bar of Soap to Clean the Lenses
- Invest in Anti-fog Safety Glasses
1. Apply Anti-fog Coating on the Lenses
Anti-fog coating is one of the best solutions to keep your safety glasses from fogging up. Apply the coating to both sides of lenses to reduce fog by forming a barrier that keeps moisture from condensing.
2. Use Anti-Fog Cloths
Rub both the inside and the outside of the lenses with an anti-fog cloth so they will not be fogged up during the day. Anti-fog Cloths work by coating the lens surface with a chemical designed to make it harder for water vapor to collect in large droplets.
3. Spray Anti-fog Lens Cleaner on the Lenses
Anti-fog lens cleaner needs to be sprayed on both sides of the lenses inside and outside then dry the lenses using a microfiber cloth. The Anti-fog lens cleaner works by preventing the build-up of moisture or condensation on the lenses which keeps the lenses from fogging up.
4. Use a Bar of Soap to Clean the Lenses
Washing your safety glasses lenses with soap prevents them from fogging to a large extent. The easy way to wash them is easy just follow those 3 steps:
Step1: Wash your glasses or sunglasses lenses with soapy water.
Step 2: Shake off the excess moisture.
Step 3: Let the glasses air dry or gently dry them with a clean microfiber cloth.
5. Invest in Anti-fog Safety Glasses
This step is the best solution and the most cost-effective one on this whole list. Having anti-fog safety glasses will help you avoid all these struggles. You will not need any soap or any other product to use. Anti-fog safety glasses use chemicals that prevent water condensation in small droplets, which prevent the lenses from fogging up.
Those tips are the ones that work. We found other tips online but they don’t work.
How Do You Prevent Your Safety Glasses From Fogging Up While Wearing a Mask?
The tips I shared with you above are some tips that you can apply to your safety glasses lenses so they will not fog under any circumstances.
First, let us see why safety glasses lenses will fog up when you wear a face mask.
Why Do Safety Glasses Fog Up While Wearing a Face Mask?
When you wear a face mask, you repeatedly breathe out warm air. This warm, moist air goes up out of your mask and makes the lenses foggy.
So to stop your safety glasses from fogging up while you wear a mask you should find a way to block the warm air you breathe from going up, instead, the air should go down or from the sides of the mask.
Those 2 Tips That I Will Share With You Now Are for People Who Use Face Masks
1. Use a Piece of Tissue Paper
You can use a folded piece of tissue on the top of the mask and then you can wear it. This way the warm air you breathe will not find a way to sneak out of the top of your mask and fog up your lenses.
2. Use a Surgical Tape
You can use surgical tape to tighten the mask to your face. Preventing your warm, moist breath from going up to the lenses. Instead, the air will be shunted off through the sides of the mask.
Those 2 tips are the most effective when you wear a mask, but if you invest in anti-fog safety glasses you will not need to bother with all those tips.
Summary
Those tips are effective to keep your safety glasses from fogging up. Use them the right way as I told you and you will never find yourself with foggy lenses.