Keep your mousepad stain-free and remove built-up dirt to ensure your mouse tracks properly.

If you use your mousepad daily, wipe it down once a week.

Thoroughly clean it following this guide at least once a month.

Mousepad with florals and foliage design under white mouse next to laptop

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Rinsing or soaking those mousepads will permanently damage or destroy them.

Read the manufacturer’s care recommendations for those mousepads and follow those instructions.

Tip

Use amicrofiber clothinstead of cotton or paper towels to reduce lint that can clog components.

Materials and tools to clean a mousepad on white surface

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A drying rack elevates the mousepad to improve air circulation and speed drying.

Additional Tips for Cleaning a Mousepad

Station created for cleaning materials to clean mousepad

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Dishwashing liquid added to tan sponge over floral mousepad in white container

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Mousepad flipped over to black back side for cleaning with sponge in white container

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Floral mousepad soaking in white container with warm water

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Excess moisture removed from clean mousepad with blue microfiber towel

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Floral mousepad air drying on dry rack

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White sponge scrubbing dirt from plastic mousepad

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Reverse side of plastic mousepad sprayed with all-purpose cleaner

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Plastic mousepad surface dried with microfiber cloth

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