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The Best Way to Clean a Bong With Household Items

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Frequently smoking out of your glassware will quickly make your bowls, pipes, and bongs filthy. Here are step-by-step directions on how to clean your bong.

It a good idea to always keep your bongs, pipes, and bowls clean. Smoking with dirty glassware can harm your respiratory health. Therefore, spend a few minutes every month to keep your glassware clean. Here’s a simple and effective way to clean your dirty bongs with household items. The entire cleaning process will take 10 minutes or less.

Materials Needed to Get Started

  • Dirty bong
  • Plastic wrap
  • Rubber bands
  • Coarse ground salt (Kosher, Epson, or Sea Salt)
  • Isopropyl rubbing alcohol
Dirty bong illustration

Step-By-Step Illustrated Bong Cleaning Instructions

10 Minutes 10 minutes.

Follow these easy steps to clean your bong.

  1. Remove the bowl

    or male piece from the bong chamber. Set that aside. We’ll clean it last.Remove the bowl from a bong Illustration

  2. Cover the stem hole

    Cover the hole of the stem with plastic wrap or Press ‘N’ Seal®. Be sure to cover the entire surrounding area. Make sure you have a nice tight seal around the hole. You don’t want to get smelly, brown bong water everywhere.Seal the stem hole with plastic wrap

  3. Tightly wrap the plastic wrap

    Tightly wrap the plastic wrap with one or more rubber bands around the plastic wrap to prevent it from coming off during the shaking process.
    Wrap rubber bands around the plastic wrap

  4. Add the coarse ground salt

    Add the coarse ground salt into the bong. You can add about 1/4 of the length of the bong with salt. If you don’t have any coarse salt, you can use regular table salt. The salt is used to scrape the grime off the inside of the bong. The coarser salt will give help reduce the amount of shaking you will need to do.Add coarse ground salt

  5. Add the isopropyl rubbing alcohol

    After that, Add the isopropyl rubbing alcohol into the bong. You want to fill the bong about halfway full. You need to save room to shake the concoction around.Add rubbing alcohol

  6. Tightly wrap and cover the mouthpiece

    Next, tightly wrap and cover the mouthpiece of the bong. Cover the mouthpiece with plastic wrap, then once again fasten the plastic wrap with rubber bands.Tightly wrap the mouthpiece with plastic wrap

  7. Wrap rubber bands around the plastic wrap at the mouthpiece

    Once again fasten the plastic wrap with rubber bands.Wrap more rubber bands around the mouthpiece

  8. It’s time to shake!

    Finally, It’s time to shake! You might want to do this portion of the cleaning outside, in a garage, or near a sink. You can wear safety goggles to help protect your eyes. Place your hands on the mouthpiece and base. With a firm grip, carefully shake the bong up and down. Shake it until your bong is looking clear. You can empty the gross water and refill it with new salt and alcohol if needed.Shake the bong up and down - Agitate

  9. Empty the liquid

    Once the bong is looking clean, empty the liquid.Empty the liquid and salt

  10. Rinse the bong with hot water

    Rinse the bong with hot water. Repeat this step for a minute or two. You don’t want to smoke out of a bong that still has alcohol and salt in it.Rinse the bong with hot water

  11. Clean your bowl

    Lastly, clean your bowl or pipe by following these steps.

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