How to clean a curling iron

By leighcamp1

Clean your curling iron and make it look brand new! Clean your curling iron and make it look brand new!

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Crazy alternative ,but a great trick for at home or in the salon!

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

  • oven cleaner
  • papertowels
  • pencil

Step1
Take your curling iron outside (you are not suppose to breathe the chemicals).
Step2
Take a pencil and prop open your curling iron lay it on the ground (preferably on some newspaper)as to keep the oven cleaner off of your lawn.
Step3
Spray your iron with an aerosol oven cleaner.This only takes a once over and follow the directions as far as how long you should let the cleaner sit on th oven surface.Just apply this to your iron.
Step4
After,you compete this step use papertowels to wipe it clean.This will remove all of the old hairspray build up.
Step5
You are almost finished after the papertowels,use a wet cloth to completely clean all of the oven cleaner off of the iron.Voila a new curling iron!

Tips & Warnings

  • This is an especially beneficial articles for cosmetologists who use expensive irons.

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on 8/19/2008 good idea - thanks -tj

duncan411

duncan411 said

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on 8/5/2008 Wonderful Article!

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on 7/18/2008 Wow! This is fantastic! No more dirty curling irons for me :)

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on 7/16/2008 Very handy tip.

Tippy

Tippy said

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on 7/14/2008 Thanks for a great how-to article. I'm going to try these tips.

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