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Why Your Mirrors Streak

And the Distilled Water Glass Cleaner That Fixes It

The white haze you blame on your cloth is minerals from tap water. Pour 1 cup 70% rubbing alcohol into a 16 oz spray bottle, then 1 cup distilled water, 1 tablespoon white vinegar and one single drop of dish soap. Rock it gently, don't shake. Mist lightly, wipe top to bottom in an S pattern with one microfiber and buff right behind it with a dry one. Crack a window and keep it away from candles, pilot lights and heaters.

Ghost Spray Daily Glass Cleaner recipe card: 1 cup 70% rubbing alcohol, 1 cup distilled water, 1 tbsp white vinegar, 1 drop dish soap, just one
What it fixesEveryday dust, breath haze and light hand smudges on interior windows and mirrors, with no streaks left behind.

You need

Mix it

  1. Pour the alcohol into the spray bottle first, then the distilled water.
  2. Add the vinegar and the single drop of dish soap.
  3. Cap it and rock it back and forth gently. Do not shake it hard or you will foam it up and be waiting ten minutes for the bubbles to settle.

Use it

  1. Mist the glass lightly, about four pulls of the trigger for a standard window pane. Wet, not dripping.
  2. Wipe with the first microfiber in a top to bottom S pattern, overlapping each pass by an inch.
  3. Immediately follow with the second dry microfiber, buffing in small circles. The alcohol flashes off in seconds, so working fast is what kills the streaks.
Dale's noteDistilled water is the whole trick and it costs about a dollar a gallon. Tap water leaves behind dissolved minerals as it dries, and those minerals are the white haze you keep blaming on your cloth. Buy one gallon, it makes eight bottles.
Don'tDo not spray this near a lit gas burner, a pilot light, a candle or a space heater, and crack a window while you work. A cup of rubbing alcohol in a bottle is a flammable liquid and the mist hangs in the air for a few seconds before it flashes off. Also go easy on aftermarket window tint, since repeated alcohol on cheap film can haze it and lift the edges. Test a bottom corner first.
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