You really should wear eye protection while soldering anyway.
Right. Funny story. We had a big safety audit here a few
months ago. Lots of new "work practices", including mandated
eye protection -- safety glasses -- when soldering. So ..
I start doing some rework on a particularly tricky section
of an 0603-scale board. A flock of managers cruised by and
said -- Hey! you don't have safety glasses on! I show them
that I don't get any benefit from safety glasses when I'm
soldering under a 10X microscope.