How to Clean Your Hair Straightener?

Today, hair straighteners or heated hair curlers are used by many women. Now, these hairstyle products are in bigger demand than ever. In fact, even the men are using the curling irons and hair straighteners to style their hair to sport a different look.

Often, people buy these hair products for use either for their business or personal usage. During the continuous handling, they get dirty and required to be cleaned. But, the majority of people don’t know how to maintain or clean these hair straighteners. Firstly, these products cost heavy to our pockets and secondly, we do not know how to handle them properly. Remember, there are certain methods of using hair products, such as a hair straightener, as well as maintaining them.

If you want to know the correct method of handling these products, you must check the product catalog, which comes with the packaging. Often these catalogs don’t describe the methods to maintain them. Therefore, people using these products remain confused on how to clean these hair straightening irons. As a result, they invent their own methods to handle and clean hair straighteners. Let’s discuss some of the most successful methods to clean a hair straightener.

1. Cleaning with nail polish remover
   put nail polish remover or alcohol on the plates or over some piece of cotton and rub the plates gently. Next, clean the plates again with some damp cloth so that the residue of thickener or alcohol gets wiped off from the plate.
2. Cleaning with Damp cloth
   clean the plates of hair straighteners with a damp cloth after every use of this product. This would help you keep them clean for long period.
3. Warming up the hair straightener
   Warm up your hair straighteners iron for some time, and then switch it off. Allow it to cool for some time and then clean it with a warm cloth. Thus, the warmth of the plate will help to clean it up easily.
4. Using rugs to clean the hair straightener
   Nowadays, you can easily get cleaning rugs to clean this equipment. This is a better initiative by such producers of cleaning products. So, try to take the simplest way out to clean your hot flat irons. It is better that you go for such rugs available in the market. This way, you will be able to handle and maintain your hair products more easily. However, if you feel such rugs to be expensive for your budget, then try to clean your hair straighteners very carefully.

Somehow, all of these methods will work great as far as the cleaning of your hair straightener is concerned, but whatever method you adopt, do take every minute precaution to handle your hair product with care. You must remove any type of residue or moisture remains on their plates as this may damage your hair later on.