Stylus cleaners

I paid around $70 for the LAST stylus maintenance duo (cleaner and treatment). Sounds expensive for 2 tiny bottles. But considering how much of the product is used each time during the cleaning process, it should last decades. The results are outstanding as well - lower surface noise, improved clarity.

Everyone who uses magic eraser as a stylus cleaner…I hope you realize that it’s abrasive. Yes, diamond is a hard mineral, I get that.

But at the same time I’m curious to understand, with so many choices of purpose built stylus cleaning options on the market, what are the advantages of using this household cleaner as your tool of choice.

@audphile1 

I don't use a stylus cleaner. I just use brushes. My system sounds great. I clean my records with a Degritter so I don't get gunk on the stylus. And I trust Joe Grado, the inventor of the moving coil cartridge: "Don't clean your stylus with that gunk. Just brush it off. Diamonds are so hard nothing sticks to them."

Yes I know @audio-b-dog 

My take is - if your records are clean (washed, re-sleeved in new anti-static sleeves) and you use a carbon fiber brush to clean records before playing them, you won’t have any significant dust accumulation on the stylus. Dry stylus brush is all you need. However, periodically cleaning stylus with something like the LAST duo does not hurt. It will not attract dust. It will get the stylus and cantilever cleaner than a dry brush alone can. Degritter is a key part of it all. It gets your records really clean. 
Your Grado cartridge stylus was exposed to significantly dirtier records pre-Degritter. And the accumulation of gunk was unlikely due to LAST stylus cleaner. Most likely cause was dirty records. That’s my theory. 

My question was to those who use Mr. Clean on their stylus. 

Paper towel is an absolute lint and fiber bomb… lint free clean room grade wipes are very inexpensive 

carry on

True that @tomic601 

how about Dude Wipes? I just need to figure out the order…