Inside: Dealing with a dirty flat iron? See how to clean a flat iron at home. It's easy to do in minutes and you will have a clean hair straightener in no time at all. Check out how to clean your flat iron easily.
Easy-to-use hair tools make mornings go smoother and makes life better! Make sure your hair tools are always free from hair sprays or products. The products turn into gunk or grime on your flat iron and won't work as well.
If you want your flat iron clean and looking new again just check out these easy tips on how to clean a flat iron.
*Tip
You can also use this same method to clean your curling irons too! Plus check out my favorite way to clean makeup brushes and beauty blenders.
How To Clean A Flat Iron
To clean your hair straightener you will need a few things and about 5 minutes of time. It's just that easy.
Items Needed To Clean Hair Straightening Irons:
- Rubbing alcohol (any percent will work)
- Cotton pads or balls
- Flat iron
Instructions For Cleaning
You can see how dirty my flat iron was below. The plates have hairspray buildup and other gunk on them.
Step 1: Start by heating up your flat iron for about a 5-10 seconds before you start to clean it. In my opinion, heating up the flat iron plates helps make all the grime on there kind of gummy and come off easier.
Note: Make sure you unplug it after heating it up!
You will be handling it to clean it so you don't want it so hot you burn yourself.
Step 2: Take a cotton ball or pad and put some of the rubbing alcohol on it, just enough to dampen the cotton pad. You don't want the pad to be dripping with rubbing alcohol.
Step 3: Carefully, so you don't burn yourself, rub the cotton ball on the plates of the flat iron.
Note: Make sure you don't get the rubbing alcohol in any of the cracks of the flat iron. Keep it to just the plates.
Step 4: The rubbing alcohol will start to dissolve the hair spray buildup and gunk will start to come off on the pad.
Tip: You may need use multiple pads if your flat iron is really dirty. Just get a fresh cotton pad and add some more rubbing alcohol to the pad.
Step 5: Once you feel like you have all the build-up off your straightener then you can wet a cotton ball with water and wipe down the flat iron one more time.
If you have a particularly bad area you can't get clean try a damp magic eraser.
I like to do this to remove the alcohol from the plates. Now your clean flat iron is ready to go. Check out the before and after on mine.
With just a few minutes of your time, your flat iron will look like new again. No more gunk on your flat iron being used on clean hair.
With this simple tip on how to clean a flat iron, you can keep your flat iron looking like new!
Want some other cleaning tips? Check out how to clean a hairbrush like a pro.
Want to skip the rubbing alcohol and still remove the hair products from your flat iron? I recommend using a damp microfiber cloth to remove the gunk from your hair straightener. It may take a little elbow grease, but it will eventually come off.
I recommend doing this about once a month to keep your flat iron clean from baked on hair products. Your flat iron will stay clean and your hair will look great! If you use it every day you may want to clean it every other week.
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