Did you know that microfiber (also written as microfibre) is actually composed of tiny strands of plastic? You probably think that it is just like any other cleaning cloth, but in fact it’s not! Microfiber fabric is full of of surprises. Not only does it make our lives a lot easier, but it’s also one of the most eco-friendly ways of cleaning things! In this article, I’ll show you how microfibre works, and how it can make your household items shine even without the use of expensive cleaning chemicals. Sales pitch? Magic? No! It’s a pure science! Before we knew about microfibre, we were using soap and water to clean windows, glasses and almost anything that needed cleaning. Water is very good at cleaning almost everything just by itself, because it is composed of two different molecules that are electrically unbalanced. As a result, it sticks to all kinds of things just like magnet and breaks them apart thru the process of dissolution. Because of that characteristic, water is also called “the universal solvent” since it can dissolve so many things. However, some stains like grease and oil cannot be dissolved by water, so in this case we turn to detergents. Detergent is a soapy chemical that clings to grease, breaks its apart and makes it easier for water to flush away. But many people do not like using detergents, because aside from being expensive, detergents are often toxic and made of chemicals that may lead to allergic reactions and chronic skin problems. For that reason, it’s much better to clean stuff without chemicals, and that’s exactly where Microfibre comes into play! A single human is weak and cannot do much work, however a large team of people can move mountains, so do microfibers! Millions of tiny strands combined into a tightly woven fabric make it incredibly powerful! In fact, a square inch of such a fabric has over 200 thousand of tiny fibers. These small fibers have positive electrostatic charge that keeps them together, and attracts dirt particles, even the tiniest ones! Dirt is normally negatively charged, therefore it naturally sticks to microfibers just like North and South poles on 2...
Read MoreDid you know that individual fibers in a microfiber cleaning cloth are 100 times narrower than a human hair? In fact, it is one third the diameter of a cotton and a quarter of wool’s width! Amazing, right? In this article I’m going to show you five amazing facts about microfiber fabric, which is the reason why it’s the number one cleaning material for delicate surfaces. We spend more than half of our lives indoors (in houses, apartments, and in the offices), one third of us wear eye glasses, and almost everyone has a camera now. All household items need to be cleaned on daily basis. Eye glasses and camera lenses require cleaning even more often, and 60% of all surfaces we clean are considered to be delicate. So what’s the deal with microfiber? Well, suppose you need to clean your 600 dollar camera lense… Obviously, you can do it the old fashion way using a damp cotton cloth like a shred of your worn out teeshirt, which you were about to trash, but suddenly decided to give it a second life as a cleaning media. This piece of fabric, if washed properly, should theoretically work on glass, but it will definitely give you the following side effects: cotton cloth will leave lint on the glass, and any attempt to wipe it off will cause more lint to build up (and it’ pretty much a really annoying vicious cycle); at some point your cotton cloth will accumulate enough dust, and you will start spreading the dust along the surface of the glass instead of cleaning it; you won’t be able to remove grease stains like fingerprints from the surface of the glass, you will be just spreading the grease along the surface of the glass you will end up with scratches on your lenses because cotton fibers are hard and can damage delicate surfaces. So there is only one proper way of cleaning optics… It’s cleaning it with a dry microfiber cleaning cloth! And not only optics… Microfiber works best on all surfaces, much better that cotton. And it does not require any water to work, at all! Microfiber removes 99 percent of bacteria...
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