The question of how a straightener clean is difficult to answer at this time, because the bracket soles are made of different materials. What is good for a flat iron can be harmful to the other.
What you need:
• Swab
• Detergent
• Linen cloth
• Plastic scouring pad
• Pools
• Oven Spray
• Vinegar / salt
• Iron Cleaner
Identification of the material before cleaning
Since most cleansers have different effects on the material, you should definitely find what material is your Curling iron before you wreck during cleaning. As before, you brush the material of the iron. A look at the instructions always helps further, as there is in it. If you are among the housewives throw away those instructions – because you finally know how to iron – you need according to one of the other methods to try out the material of the sole of the flat iron.
Teflon Coated Straightener have a matte sole that does not feel metallic. Since Teflon very sensitive to scratches, are likely to have seen a few minor scratches. If your hair straightener is not bare metal, you are probably a coated iron that you need to clean very carefully.
Soles that look like brushed, are usually made of aluminum. This material is soft and shows probably been scratched.
Highly polished shoes at Straightener give stainless steel. Stylist of this material are easy to clean and tolerate almost all methods. Because you can hardly do anything wrong when you clean it.
To straightener smooth again
Before you clean a steam iron, you should always clean the steam vents. Fill a water and heat the flat iron on. Place the steam iron on stage to clean the mouthpiece and leave for a few minutes. Wipe out the holes with a cotton swab.
Teflon Coated Straightener you should only cleaned with water and a soft sponge. Because you can hardly remove brown coating, you will only be able to get these pads down by ironing. Most of these deposits remains of fabric softener, starch or derived from the fact that you have ironed a little too warm.
Take a cotton or better a white linen cloth that does not contain residues of detergents, starch or fabric softeners and iron until the dirty cloth and the iron is clean. This method works for all hair straighteners and harms not guaranteed.
If you brush aluminum with acid, it is black and ugly. For this reason, you should straighteners made of aluminum with an ordinary detergent and a scouring pad made of plastic to clean. Special polishes from the hardware store, you can use to polish aluminum are obviously allowed to clean the flat iron.
Stainless steel, you can oven spray, cleaning the vinegar / salt mixture and other metal polishes. This makes stainless steel is not much, but here it is better to use a slight increase in the cure.
Special cleaning pins for irons usually contain ammonium chloride and well tolerated by most hair straighteners. Note, however, in any case, the instructions for this product.
In general, if the iron is clean, that the best way to test the methods and resources to the wide side of the sole of the flat iron before to treat the entire sole of the iron. Thus, the iron remains operational even once one has the wrong means.