Wet cleaning of vinyl records is the best way if not the only way to really get them clean and to get them free of static electricity.
A mild household window cleaner does a nice job because it has all of the necessary chemical components to get your records clean. Let’s call that product “Windex” for simplicity, although not all Windex –like products are suitable.
I prefer to recommend the Vinegar based cleaners rather than the alcohol or ammonia based products as there is a commonly held suspicion that alcohol and ammonia can cause long term damage to vinyl (although I have never seen evidence of that).
Window cleaning solutions contain a surfactant, which is a chemical agent that breaks “surface tension” and allows the solution to really get down into the bottom of the grooves and therefore removes more dirt.
I do not sell any cleaning products or solutions as it is likely that everything you need you already have in your kitchen or bathroom. While many of the commercially available record cleaning solutions probably do a good job I don’t think that they are worth spending the money on them. Very likely they are no better (and probably not as good) than a bottle of Windex, except for their exorbitant cost. Snake oil I say.
