DIY Screen Cleaner

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This simple screen cleaner spray has only 2 ingredients and works great on your phone, iPad, laptop, and more. Skip the expensive cleaners at the store and make your own!

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Does your iPad or phone look like a greasy-fingered octopus has been playing with it? Every time my kids borrow a device, it comes back looking like heck and the screen needs to be cleaned.

You can buy fancy “screen cleaning solution” for $9 (seriously), but there’s no way I’m paying for something I can make myself.

If this happens to you too, this simple screen cleaner recipe is just the ticket.

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DIY Screen Cleaner Recipe

Ingredients

2 Tablespoons rubbing alcohol

2 Tablespoons distilled or purified water

Supplies

2 oz spray bottle

Small funnel

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Instructions

Mix the rubbing alcohol and water in a clearly labeled spray bottle, but don’t spray directly on your screen. Instead, spritz a clean cloth and wipe down the screen.

You can also use this to clean your keyboard or mouse. Always spray on a cloth, not on the device.

I use this on our iPhone, laptop, and iPad with no problem–but I haven’t used it with every device in every situation. Use it at your discretion on your devices.

Warning: may give you a desire to polish every flat surface in the house. If you end up feeling that way, come to my place and help me clean up.

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DIY Screen Cleaner

Yield: 2 oz.
Active Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes

This simple screen cleaner spray has only 2 ingredients and works great on your phone, iPad, laptop, and more. Skip the expensive cleaners at the store and make your own!

Instructions

    Mix the rubbing alcohol and water in a clearly labeled spray bottle, but don’t spray directly on your screen. Instead, spritz a clean cloth and wipe down the screen.

    You can also use this to clean your keyboard or mouse. Always spray on a cloth, not on the device.

    I use this on our iPhone, laptop, and iPad with no problem--but I haven't used it with every device in every situation. Use it at your discretion on your devices.

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18 thoughts on -DIY Screen Cleaner-

  1. I use my alcohol wipes I get with my diabetes supplies for on the go. Will get a spray bottle dedicated for your recipe soon. Thanks

  2. This is great! taking note and will try this for sure.
    I must tell you, though – I am crazy cleaning right now getting ready for out-of-town relatives coming for family reunion and I thought I’d find a solution for cleaning my dusty dirty WINDOW screens.
    Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful weekend.

    1. Sorry for the mixup! But thanks for stopping by and commenting. I think the best thing for dirty window screens is a curtain! ;o)

  3. I love this cleaner. I use it to clean my reading glasses, too. Probably not good for lenses with an anti-reflective coating, though.

      1. Yes, I agree. My reading glasses are the cheapies you buy at the drug store for reading. I wouldn’t use this on professional prescription glasses.

  4. Does this work better than a vinegar/water mixture? Because for some reason I can’t seem to get my laptop screen clean with my homemade glass cleaner even though it does well on fingerprints on mirrors.

      1. I use window cleaner on my Computer’s LCD screen. It works fine. I spray some on a paper towel, and wipe the screen, then wipe it dry with a paper towel. My son said it would scratch the screen, but I’ve never seen any damage. You just have to go your gut, I guess.

      2. I have about a dozen screens, I have tubs next to my washing machine that fill up with the water from washing clothes. So when the rinse cycle comes I plug the tub up and soak a screen. I rinse all my clothes in vinegar and also wash my clothes with very little laundry soap. A good scrub brush and a hot water rinse and they look awesome!

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