+1 on the J+J baby shampoo. I usually either give a gentle rinse in the sink or swish around in the pool before putting them on.
The good thing is that if you don't wipe them off quite enough, you get just a little tiny sting, but not anything terrible. Just dip in the water one more time and you're good to go. Other shampoos that have a bunch of other crap in them would do the same thing, but would hurt your eyes a lot more.
My experience is that brand new goggles don't fog up. (there must be some coating on them)
After a while, spitting in them is good enough.
After a while longer, spitting in them doesn't cut it any more, so I bring in the big guns (i.e., the baby shampoo).
With the baby shampoo, what you are doing in chemical terms is making the surface more hydrophobic. This means that the drops tend to coagulate (if that's the right term) more, so that they don't exist as the tiny, tiny droplets that are "fog". I assume the same is true for spitting in them (but spit is mostly water). I assume there is some residual coating that interacts with the proteins in spit just enough to make the surface just hydrophobic enough to avoid the fogging....but I am speculating there.
Perhaps the plastic of some goggles has a better coating than others, which would account for why some of us have to use harsher methods.
I use Quick Spit Anti-Fog on my goggles. When I used to luge fogging was a major issue not only because of the obvious (the fog) also because it would freeze inside my face shield leaving me bombing down the track blind. I noticed a Czech slider using Suave Strawberry Shampoo on their shield with excellent results. I started using it as well. I believe it worked for the same reason the baby shampoo works. Of course that close to your eyes I would opt for the baby shampoo.
OK, I'm going to have to try the JJ Baby Shampoo thing. I have found that anti-fog does work ... but only in the pool. For some reason, it works in Open Water only for the warm-up. Then, within 60 secs of the wave start, the damn things begin to fog up. It is a freakin' conspiracy!
Goggles fog??!!! Ithought it was just cause I' m near sighted!
Lens fogging ended for me earlier this year when I stopped using normal swim gogles in the pool. I was developing a small patch of eczema type hyperkeratosis on the eye lid near my nose, where the goggle would rub. I switched to an old pair of those humongous Aqua Sphere goggles, which cover the eyebrows down to cheek bones. Keratosis and fogging both gone. I can't imagine what I look like to the other (real) swimmers in the pool. I also start each session wearing my De Soto Speed Tube, which is essentially a 3/4 length wet suit bottom. Speaking of tri geek! (See my post in the "what should I wear to a marathon?" thread.)
One of the pleasures of getting old is being invisible, meaning people expect you to dress funny.
I've had my goggles for well over a year, and the spit thing works flawlessly for me. There's a trick to it, though - you get best results when you spit into them when they are dry . Then, rinse them out every-so-briefly with a splash of water. If you try to re-apply the technique on wet goggles, it doesn't work.
Yup, the spit thing works best when they are dry...and when you haven't had any water in your mouth for a while. It's all a matter of maximizing the concentration of whatever it is in your spit that helps.
a little bit of Spit before each swim. My Aquasphere last a whole season this way. I just buy a new pair every spring. The baby shampoo is interesting though, might have to try that
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The good thing is that if you don't wipe them off quite enough, you get just a little tiny sting, but not anything terrible. Just dip in the water one more time and you're good to go. Other shampoos that have a bunch of other crap in them would do the same thing, but would hurt your eyes a lot more.
After a while, spitting in them is good enough.
After a while longer, spitting in them doesn't cut it any more, so I bring in the big guns (i.e., the baby shampoo).
With the baby shampoo, what you are doing in chemical terms is making the surface more hydrophobic. This means that the drops tend to coagulate (if that's the right term) more, so that they don't exist as the tiny, tiny droplets that are "fog". I assume the same is true for spitting in them (but spit is mostly water). I assume there is some residual coating that interacts with the proteins in spit just enough to make the surface just hydrophobic enough to avoid the fogging....but I am speculating there.
Perhaps the plastic of some goggles has a better coating than others, which would account for why some of us have to use harsher methods.
I use Quick Spit Anti-Fog on my goggles. When I used to luge fogging was a major issue not only because of the obvious (the fog) also because it would freeze inside my face shield leaving me bombing down the track blind. I noticed a Czech slider using Suave Strawberry Shampoo on their shield with excellent results. I started using it as well. I believe it worked for the same reason the baby shampoo works. Of course that close to your eyes I would opt for the baby shampoo.
Lens fogging ended for me earlier this year when I stopped using normal swim gogles in the pool. I was developing a small patch of eczema type hyperkeratosis on the eye lid near my nose, where the goggle would rub. I switched to an old pair of those humongous Aqua Sphere goggles, which cover the eyebrows down to cheek bones. Keratosis and fogging both gone. I can't imagine what I look like to the other (real) swimmers in the pool. I also start each session wearing my De Soto Speed Tube, which is essentially a 3/4 length wet suit bottom. Speaking of tri geek! (See my post in the "what should I wear to a marathon?" thread.)
One of the pleasures of getting old is being invisible, meaning people expect you to dress funny.
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No, not baby oil, but baby shampoo!
Just another one of those invaluable nuggets of info the Team has to offer, Thanks!