Today headphones become a must-have device for anyone who wants to listen to portable music player. Headphones can possibly get dirty, depending on where you are taking them and where you are placing them when not in use. If you are wearing dirty headphones, it can cause you to get ear pain and even this can lead to an infection if the headphones contain certain form of bacteria on them. Therefore, you need to sterilize them regularly. At this time, this article is going to deliver several tips that will help you to sterilize your headphones.

The first thing that you have to do is to thoroughly wash your hands. You should make sure that your hands are properly cleaned since cleaning off headphones will not do much good if your hands are dirty. It will be sufficient if you are using a basic anti-bacterial hand soap and also hot water.

The second thing that you should do is to remove pads from the headphones. Whether you have the ear buds or the headphones which actually go over your head, you will find that there will be some sort of the protective pad over the audio portion of your headphones.

The third thing that you need to do is to hold a can of the disinfectant for about 6 inches away and then you can spray the pads if they are made of the softer fabric. For sterilizing the plastic pads of the headphones, you can spray a small cotton ball with disinfectant spray. The cotton ball must be wet but it is not soaked. After that, you need to thoroughly wipe off the pads, inside and out. Regardless of the pads that you own, you should immediately dry them off. You can use towel of place them in front of the fan.

Lastly, you need to spray the cotton ball with disinfectant spray and then wipe off the uncovered earpiece of your headphones. After that, you should wipe off both ear pieces gently with the cotton ball, and then wipe them off immediately with a clean towel.