Dry Solder Tip Cleaners

"Tip cleaner / tinner is good for the regeneration of oxidized tips, but the cleaning of your tips with one of these metal sponge stuff makes it almost superfluous in the first place. Rant # 25 692: Water rust / oxidize metal. Oxidized metal is not good heat transfer. Why the hell would you ever touch your soldering iron with a sponge and cold water? "

You can create your own cleaner by always easy to make such a copper scrubby pad in the supermarket and stuffing it into a small container