I rate this a 10 out of 10.
After receiving my Barbie King Size Brown lenses, I immediately soaked whipped out my freshly purchased bottle of ClearCare One Bottle No-Rub solution to clean my circle lenses.
I must say.. WOW!
At first, I as a little skeptical about using the ClearCare provided lens-case. Then I realized I HAD to use it to clean the lenses. The special case forces the lenses to be vertical while the solution goes to work cleaning them while I sleep.
Night 1: I soaked these for 6 hours. I rinsed the lenses with Alcon's Opti-Free's solution right before putting them in my eyes. Mild stinging, but nothing out of the ordinary.
Night 2: Just as I did during night 1, I popped my lenses into the ClearCare case with solution, and after about 7 hours of soaking, I woke up and popped the lenses into my eyes.
WOWsa!
ZERO fuzziness. ZERO blurriness. ZERO "Halos" in my field of vision. ZERO stinging.
I bought 2 bottles of ClearCare from BigLots for $6.70 including tax and the special lens case. QUITE THE BARGAIN.
So, here's my verdict. If you want your circle lenses to last and you need them spotlessly clean and disinfected, free from protein residue and other kinds of buildup, go with this stuff. It WORKS.
I never had to add eye drops to my lenses at any point during my 8 hours of wearing my Barbie King Size Brown lenses.
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
Why do the manufacturers tell you to soak your lenses for 6 hours?
"6 Freaking Hours? I just waited 2 weeks for my lenses!"
Why do manufacturers of circle lenses ask you to soak your lenses in solution for 6 hours?
When contact lenses are packaged in glass vials for sale, the manufacturers put them in a preservative solution to preserve them for their wearers. In the original sterile, sealed glass vial packaging, contact lenses can be stored for up to 5 years.
Once you open the vials and take your contacts out, the seal is broken and the sterile environment is gone.
On your lenses, at least the first time you put them on, the contacts still have the preservative on/in them. Contacts absorb some of that solution into the lenses. As you have probably seen in descriptions of the contact lenses, manufacturers tell wearers what the water content % is. The preservative is water-soluble, and as such, the lenses will absorb some of it.
To avoid irritation to your eye from this preservative, you must soak your contacts for at least 6 hours.
Is the preservative toxic? Probably not-- if it were, they wouldn't use it for contact lenses. You probably won't die if you busted your lenses out of the vials and put them in right away, BUT doing so is definitely not a good idea and will sting like hell.
So, that's why!
Why do manufacturers of circle lenses ask you to soak your lenses in solution for 6 hours?
When contact lenses are packaged in glass vials for sale, the manufacturers put them in a preservative solution to preserve them for their wearers. In the original sterile, sealed glass vial packaging, contact lenses can be stored for up to 5 years.
Once you open the vials and take your contacts out, the seal is broken and the sterile environment is gone.
On your lenses, at least the first time you put them on, the contacts still have the preservative on/in them. Contacts absorb some of that solution into the lenses. As you have probably seen in descriptions of the contact lenses, manufacturers tell wearers what the water content % is. The preservative is water-soluble, and as such, the lenses will absorb some of it.
To avoid irritation to your eye from this preservative, you must soak your contacts for at least 6 hours.
Is the preservative toxic? Probably not-- if it were, they wouldn't use it for contact lenses. You probably won't die if you busted your lenses out of the vials and put them in right away, BUT doing so is definitely not a good idea and will sting like hell.
So, that's why!
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