How to Clean a Bong or Waterpipe

run the hottest water in your house throgh your bong until all resin stanges come out

Empty the waterpipe, pour in a little epsom salts and rubbing alcohol and just swirl it around, up and over all the resin. The epsom salts don’t dissolve in the alcohol very quickly, but help break apart the resin while the alcohol dissolves it. Epsom salts is wicked cheap and can be found at CVS or Walgreens in the foot care section (it’s used to soak your feet). Quickest and cheapest way EVAR

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Fill the bong with as much water as possible. Plug the bowl hole if you want to clean to the top. Drop a tab of Polident ™, let it sit then rinse. Voila, clean pipe.

just tried the salt and alcohol method…. PERFECT!!!! thanks guys

Try using some acetone (it’s in most nail polish removers, if you don’t have any) … It works wonders … but obviously make sure to rinse it well afterwards

alcohol and epsom salt cheaaaap and easyyyy took me seconds to restore almost as new.

question tho…. how do u completely remove the resin from under the slide????? i can always restore the glass piece brand new, however the area under the slide in the middle is tuff any ideas???

Alcohol + Salt = Death of acrilyc pieces. If your unit is plastic, do this and you will be sorry. It’ll work just fine, you’ll love it for a while, but eventually the plastic will be weakened by the alcohol, and your piece will be a busted POS. Trust me, I’ve done it a few times myself. In Canada there’s a product called Orange TKO, might be in the states too, works just as well as the alcohol and salt method, without compromising the intergrity of the plastic. It’s expensive, but bloody worth it, cheaper than buying a new bong. You literally only need about a cap for most jobs, maybe even less if you dilute it like they recommend. But since it’s made from 100% natural orange junk, I don’t bother and it doesn’t hurt any of my units, and I’ve been using it for years. If your unit is glass or ceramic however, I think the cheaper alcohol and salt solution is just fine (I think – not sure on that really). A lot of the commercial cleaners ARE just alcohol with scent and color added, so don’t bother wasting your money on those. To clean the stem piece use the same cleaner as you use on the unit, just get bamboo skewers from the dollar store and scrape it off, cotton swaps are a good tool as well. If you don’t keep nasty water in your unit, as in, dump it and get clean water every session, it’ll be a billion times easier to clean too. Those are my tips – Good luck.

Ive tried the salt and alchol and it isnt working that well and a just got this bong the day before I just dont want to waste my money on all the rest of the junk knowing that it probably wont work. And does it make a difference that mine is an ice catcher Bong

The best method I found is to boil some water and squeeze about 2 and a half lemons into it. Leave it in your bong for about an hour and voilà! Good as new! It’s cheap and easy

I prefer acetone & dry rice. The acetone cuts through the resin better than rubbing alcohol and the rice serves as a much better abrasive than salt as it does not dissolve and can be reused throughout the cleaning.

Well, i don’t know about other ppl’s methods but i’ve learned that a little water (hot or cold) and some nail polish romover works great to clean your glass pipe. Let soak for about ten minutes and use something like a q-tip to get to the hard to reach spots. Rinse well and you’re ready to go.

Acetone is best for glass or metal, but not safe for acrylic.

JUST PUT YOUR FLAME TO IT AND BURN IT OFF–NEVER WASTE ANY RESIDUE !!!!

Use grunge off, bling, or formula 420

OKAY as many fine stoners have said

Alcohol, 70-90 percent, i like 90 but thats just me. it evaporates quickly so no long lasting smells, it doesnt stick into any crevices as it just wants to dissipate into the atmosphere.works great on metal ceramic glass. even wood, just let it sit longer than others.

KOSHER SALT. even the iodized salt will work, but kosher is bigger and heavier and actually holds resin itself.
Rice works well, but you gotta throw it in the trash, sinks/erators dont like them so much, so it stinks up the trash.

with this method you need some q tips and paper towels to wipe resin on. you should not try to be ultra concervative of the alcohol, it does have a limit on how many resin particals it can hold. replace it when its dark brown. the hard stuff may be really tricky, rinse all the crap out and put some alcohol directly on the tough spot (why i like 91%) and let it sit about 5 mins add more alcohol and salt and shake again. rinse out. i like to also use some dawn dish detergent afterward shake it real good rinse it and let it drip dry. bigger pieces may require a bottle brush or water pipe cleaner. every pipe that is glass, WILL come clean eventually, (unless theres all those damn perks) with bigger water pipes, try using alcohol and salt instead of water and put a vacuum on the mouth piece and turn it on, the bubbles will help clean it.
other methods,
citri-clean type stuff=
stronger ones that have lots of citric acid work well on glass. not so well on acrylic, and will dissolve metal.
Acitone-
works good on glass with no paint or other dissolvable stuff. it takes it right off. its fingernail polish remover. it cracks acrylic. pour a bottle in your crylic piece and see what happens. you wont like it. and metal absorbs the taste of it
Denture tabs –
havent tried it, but its logical.
Boiling water- WARNING if your pipe is not borosilicate or PYREX glass, it WILL stressfracture, if not completely shatter into hot ass shards of glass. but it works.
420beads
not sure if thats what its called, but they work amazing with alcohol, and there cleanable/reuable. they have a little dull blade like ridge around it, think saturn, and it scrapes em clean, only for water pipes tho

My friend used to use a certain kind of alcohol that cleaned the bong almost instantly, just a little shake. I think it was methanol aka methyl alcohol, I was hoping someone here could verify that ;P

i have a water pipe that has 3 perculators..i think i spelled that right…i have shaken and shaken with alcohol…was told not to use salt cuase it could crack the perc……i want to know if there is a natrual way to clean it….

VERY IMPORTANT!! DO NOT use the alcohol/salt mixture on plastic water pipes!! It will crack within minutes.

rice and alcohol, easy. rice scours, alcohol cleans. great for double stems

I have the same problem, I used Nail Polish remover to clean my bubbler, and Iv tried salt and hot water many many times and it still taste like nail polish remover, Any advice would be much appreciated.

LMAO @ TinyTims comment “JUST PUT YOUR FLAME TO IT AND BURN IT OFF–NEVER WASTE ANY RESIDUE !!!!”

roflmao!!!! :>

Everyone needs a little spice in their life \o/
91% rubbing alcohol + Kosher Salt!!
my bong is blessed by rabbis ;D