Mum shares her genius two-ingredient trick for de-fogging car headlights instantly – with impressive results
- An Australian woman has used two unlikely products to de-fog her headlights
- Leonie, from Perth, combined toothpaste and baking powder together
- She applied the mixture on the headlights to make them look sparkling new
An Australian woman has used two unlikely products to de-fog her car headlights and make them look sparkling new.
Sharing before and after images to Facebook, Leonie, from Perth, combined toothpaste and baking powder and rubbed the mixture thoroughly on the headlights.
‘I fixed the headlights on my car using a mix of toothpaste and baking powder and good old fashioned elbow grease! It worked really well and the headlights came up a treat,’ she wrote online.
An Australian woman has used to unlikely products to de-fog her car headlights and make them look sparkling new. Leonie, from Perth, combined toothpaste and baking powder and rubbed the mixture thoroughly on the headlights (pictured before and after)
Leonie said she first used a paper towel to apply the mixture but then used her fingers to rub it in further.
The headlights were left as if they were brand new.
Leonie applied the mixture on with a paper towel then rubbed it in with her hands
After sharing the genius hack on social media, others were impressed at how well the trick de-fogged the headlights.
‘Wow I need to do this on my Mini one is really bad, I might give this a go tomorrow,’ one woman said.
‘Magic erasers work wonderfully too – my car detailer uses them and my car head lights come up brand new,’ another said.
A third said: ‘I’ve done in past it’s works well but doesn’t last very long.’
‘Good to know, we always just buy new light covers,’ another woman said.
Vehicle headlights often become foggy after a certain period of time if the headlights are made from plastic rather than glass.
This isn’t the first time someone has found a unique way to clean car headlights.
Last year, motorists on the Australian Facebook group Mums Who Clean were also raving about the benefits of toothpaste for cleaning the headlights.
One mother even claimed that the same method can be used to deal with scratches and door paint scrapes.
The method is simple and quick with mothers recommending you rub the toothpaste on the headlights with a cloth, buff in a circular motion until it’s sparkling clean – and then rinse off the residue.
Car owners have revealed the astonishing before and after photos of their headlights after using toothpaste to clean them
‘This is why I never put commercial toothpaste in my mouth,’ she said.
‘I only use natural toothpastes and keep the chemical one in my cleaning kit.’
Another car owner shared impressive before and after pictures of where the toothpaste cleaning trick had restored her cloudy headlights.
Several suggested other unusual tricks to clean foggy headlights, including WD40, insect repellent spray Aerogard and headlight restore kits such as Turtle Wax.
One woman decided to use the cleaning trick on her mother’s car – and it worked a treat
Another woman managed to restore her ‘tarnish headlights’ after using Turtle Headlight Restoration Kit, available at Supercheap Auto for $39.99
‘WD40 or Aerogard works,’ one suggested.
Another said: ‘I’ve used WD40 before. It works short term.’
‘My pop – who’s an ex car detailer – says bicarb and lemon. Make a paste, scrub it round, let it sit, then rinse,’ one woman shared.
Another woman said she needed to restore her ‘tarnished headlights’ after her vehicle failed a safety certificate inspection.
She tried a couple of products but she was still not ‘completely satisfied as the [the headlights were] still a yellow tinge and slightly foggy’.
‘I found the Turtle Wax Headlight Restoration Kit at Supercheap [RRP$39.99]. I did the process twice and it worked a treat,’ she said, as she shared her amazing results.