How to Clean a Curling Iron

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Lauren and today I'm going to discuss how to clean a curling iron. Due to using your curling iron and spraying product on it, you begin to get a lot of product build up on your iron. There are 2 different ways that you can clean your iron. One is more immediate to prevent it from getting very dirty. What I recommend is after you use your curling iron, you shut it off, and you let it sit for a few minutes. When it's lukewarm, not hot; because other wise you run the risk of burning yourself. But when it's lukewarm, it's still warm enough to actually have the product heated and more liquefied rather than being solidified and on the curling iron. You can take a damp cloth and run it over the top of iron. That is going to clean any product residue that was immediately placed on it; it's also going to get that top surface off of it. Again make sure that the iron is warm and not still hot. After the iron is completely cooled you can then go to a few home remedies, and you can actually use on cotton ball you can use ammonia, oven cleaner, nail polish remover, and rubbing alcohol. And if you simply take the cotton ball, put it on, and just rub up and down it, it will be acetone in the nail polish remover. The acidity of the rubbing alcohol and the ammonia and the oven cleaner will actually wind up raking through that product and helping it come off in an easy manner. It will simply just "melt" off. After you are done doing that I do suggest using another damp rag and getting some of this product off: the ammonia, the rubbing alcohol or anything else. You want to help get the remaining product that is left on your curling iron off, but also you want to make sure that you get these, the acidity of the ammonia and the alcohol off. If not next time you go and use it considering they are flammable you maybe do not want to start a fire. So just rub that down with a damp cloth when you're all down and that is how to clean a curling iron."