How to Defog a Bathroom Mirror

When you take a hot shower, your bathroom mirror fogs up. You wipe it off and it comes right back. You may have tried coating it with sprays or substances that leave the mirror streaky.

Actually all you need is air. During the shower, yes, the air has so much humidity in it that it leaves fog on the bathroom mirror, but soon after your shower is over the humidity drops. The air becomes a little dryer than your mirror, not a lot, or it would dry up fast, but enough that you just need to get air circulating by to get yourself a fog free mirror.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• A blow dryer, or fan, or just your breath.

1. Use a blow dryer. This will not only circulate the air by the mirror to pick up the fog, it will also heat the air, and the mirror, causing it to dry.

2. If you want to be more eco friendly, you can manually fan the fogged mirror with a hand fan. Keep a pretty Japanese fan for decoration. (Or if you want a macho bathroom, keep a piece of cardboard.) This is not as efficient as a hair dryer, but it will still work, especially if you hold the fan close to the mirror as you fan it. It will also not work as well is your bathroom is very very cold.

3. Just blow on it. It's not really efficient, but if you don't have a blow dryer or a fan handy, your own breath will often do. As with the fan, this works better in warm temperatures than in cold. But it can still make at least a part of your mirror fog-free.

[Marilynda]

on 3/1/2009 Blow dryer works wonders and is so much better than spraying stuff on your mirror.

[ellie42]

on 2/19/2009 good article

[georgelarson]

on 2/16/2009 Good information. Thanks.

[kittykat3]

on 2/16/2009 Basic information helpful to everyone! 5*. I am also new to eHow, just started writing this month! I only have 5 easy to read articles written so far on topics such as How to Be a Better Salesperson to How to Hula Dance. If you read and rate mine, I will do the same for you! You can just click on my profile to read my articles. Thanks and I look forward to working with you! :)

[kabney]

on 2/16/2009 So simple, yet so powerful. No more toilet paper bits on the mirror for me, I've changed my ways.