The Ultimate (and cheap) Anti-fog Technique! (56k = death)

[Eldin]

I've been experimenting and researching different ways for a homegrown anti-fog technique, I've tried shaving cream, hot vinegar, apple juice, all sorts of stuff... but only one of them actually worked... sunlight dishsoap.

Give credit to thundercactus about the sunlight dishsoap, as I've seen him post about it on the forums here...

I've tried alot of different techniques of applying sunlight dishsoap, such as wiping on, wiping off, buffing and rinsing, etc. but none of them really worked... except this one technique I found.

Use this technique on the inside of the lens.

Here is your pair of normal plastic ballistic safety glasses.


Here is your regular 1 liter bottle of sunlight lemon fresh dishsoap.


As shown here... drop some soap on the lens, don't touch it, just tilt the lens and let gravity do the work coating it, make sure you coat it all, and try and minimize bubbles.



After your finished, it should look something like this...
A smooth surface with minimal bubbles.


Now let it dry for about half an hour to an hour.


After it's dried, is should look all fuzzy, filmy and yucky...


So take a tissue and buff the soap in fairly hard in small circular motions.


After your done buffing, lightly wipe all the excess goo off, so after, you have a clean finish.



When your done, it should look something like this!



Just let it sit overnight... to let the coating harden...
...
Good morning!
Congratulations on your clear, fogproof coating!
Be careful it doesn't get soaked, a little water from the rain won't hurt, but running it under the tap or smudging it when it's wet will degrade the coating.

[gmds44]

Nice technique!

I'd love to see the secondary effects of it though.
Possible lens degradation? Maybe :P

[rideout]

Oooor you can just use "spit and rub". Works everytime and unless your dehydrated then there's plenty to go around.

[Eldin]

Originally Posted by gmds44

Nice technique!

I'd love to see the secondary effects of it though.
Possible lens degradation? Maybe :P

All the ingredients in sunlight are very alkaline... therefore I doubt there would be any degradation of the lens.

[a_sock]

I usually use dove soft on hands, or other brands that people have recomended to me(due to lack of, or lesser amounts of strong chemicals that could possibly have negative effects on my lens)

still doesnt stop my glasses from fogging all the time, But my lenses will only fog in very unfavourable conditions.

still would like to try something like fogdoc, heard a lot of good reviews for them, but havent got around to getting any

[FOX_111]

It actually destroy the permanant anti-fogging layer on most lenses. Making them more prone to fogging.
And it will degrade some plastic.

[Eldin]

Originally Posted by FOX_111

It actually destroy the permanant anti-fogging layer on most lenses. Making them more prone to fogging.
And it will degrade some plastic.

I don't at all recommend this method for lenses with some kind of protective or anti-fog layer already on them, or any kind of soft plastic (such as those big shop goggles) so use your common sense people!

But I've tested this method with safety glasses and paintball mask lenses, both showing great results. The paintball lens had some kind of coating already on it... (not anti-fog) but this method worked great and didn't harm the lens.