Ever since we entered the online contact lens market, we’ve become a major force in the industry. As the UK’s top independent online supplier of contacts, our website boasts one of the most extensive range of contact lenses offered at competitive prices. If you have been prescribed contact lenses at your Optometrists, you can buy them from us online at a competitive price and have them delivered conveniently to your door.
But it’s not just our impressive contacts selection that sets us apart. As an independent company, we can offer superior customer care and highly personalised service. For instance, we don’t require you to send contact lens shipments only to your home address. Unlike many other companies, we can make product shipments to any address you specify.
Another benefit of ordering with us is that we have a free UK shipping policy on purchases over £30. Our employees also strive to send out all packages within 24-hours after receiving your request.
If clear vision is your goal, then we will find a way to help. Don’t hesitate to reach out to our team on this Contact Us page.
The Quest For The Perfect Contact Lens
The number of contact lenses available nowadays is enough to make anyone’s head spin. New patients often find it difficult to choose from the huge variety of contact lenses now available online. Previously, you had the contact lens given to you by your optometrist - now you can really choose what suits your lifestyle and budget.
We want to make the contact lens buying experience as pleasant as possible and to help you on your quest for the perfect lens, so we’ve compiled a few contact lens buying tips to bear in mind. Read through all of the sections below to figure which lenses on our website are the best fit for your needs.
A Primer On Contact Lens Types
Honestly, there’s no such thing as an ideal contact lens. Each lens has its pros and cons that must be weighed against your personal needs.
To help you make an informed purchase, let’s run through some of the most common contact lens types available on our website.
Daily Disposable Lenses: Convenient & Safe
Trusted by most optometrists, daily disposable lenses are designed (surprise, surprise) for one-day use. This means you place a new pair of lenses in your eyes every morning and toss them away before bed. Simplicity itself - no messy solutions or cases to think about.
Why do optometrists typically prefer these lenses? Simple: dailies offer the best protection from disruptive tear deposits (protein, oil, and lipids). Since you’re changing your lenses every day, it’s difficult for deposits to attach to your contacts lenses. Protein deposits are quite common on long-term lenses and could cause eye irritation and blurry vision. Oil and lipids can cause a blurry oily film on your lenses, that disrupt vision and can cause a feeling of dryness.
People who have underlying eye conditions like dry eye syndrome or allergies like hay fever are often advised to use daily disposable lenses. These customers usually experience a massive reduction in discomforting symptoms and an increase in natural tear production.
There is a price to pay for all of this convenience, daily disposable lenses are typically the most expensive option. Although modern manufacturing practices have made dailies more affordable, they still tend to be the priciest lenses on the market. When you consider the safety and comfort benefits, however, many Optometrists contend this is extra money well spent.
Another drawback of using daily disposable lenses is that they are the least eco-friendly option on this list. Environmentalists strongly urge everyone wearing dailies to throw their lenses in recycle bins every day.
A “Middle Of The Road” Option: Two-Week Disposable Lenses
For customers seeking the “best of both worlds,” consider looking into two-week disposable lenses. As the name suggests, these lenses can be worn for two weeks before changing to a new pair. This time period is considered by many Optometrists to be a 'goldilocks' time period. Just long enough so the lenses stay almost deposit free before they are changed. Any longer, like with monthly lenses, and tear deposits can build up and start to affect wearing comfort and vision clarity.
Nevertheless, since you will be wearing these contacts bi-weekly, it’s important to 'rinse and rub' them in high-quality disinfectant solution. You will also need to store these lenses in a durable contact lens container with an adequate amount of solution every night.
For people who are willing to sacrifice the enhanced convenience of daily disposables for a more affordable price tag, two-week disposable lenses might be for you. Just be sure to look through our all-in-one solutions and contact lens cases to help you practice immaculate eye hygiene.
Monthly Disposable Lenses
Compared with dailies and two-week lenses, monthly disposable lenses are the most cost effective and eco-friendly options available. Since you wear these lenses for about 30 days before throwing them away, you need to be extra vigilant about caring for them.
Note: most monthly lenses are only designed for daytime wear. Unless the manufacturer lists otherwise, you must remove these contact lenses every night before going to bed.
On our website, you’ll find dozens of monthly disposable brands such as Biofinity, Air Optix, Crystal, and Proclear. Before you checkout, be sure to look through the disinfectant solutions and contact lens cases we offer to support your contact lens routine.
The Only Night-Approved Contacts: Continuous Wear
Continuous wear lenses are one of the most exciting innovations in the field of contact lens manufacturing. Usually made out of silicone hydrogel, continuous wear contacts are the only soft contacts that have been approved for overnight wear.
The secret to these lenses’ success has to do with silicone hydrogel’s enhanced breathability. Since the cornea has no blood vessels of its own, it heavily relies on oxygen from the air for its daily nutrient needs.
On top of letting more oxygen into the corneas, continuous wear lenses have evolved to treat a wide range of prescriptions - there are now continuous wear contact lenses for astigmatism, like Biofinity Toric and even lenses for Presbyopia.
Although you could wear these lenses overnight, you must remove them once their expiration date passes. Also, it’s a good idea to remove continuous lenses overnight once a week, to give your eyes a chance to breathe normally and to clean the lenses overnight in high-quality solution.
Continuous wear contact lenses have been around for a long time, but to a large extent daily wear lenses have superseded them. However, they are still popular among emergency service people, for example firemen or hospital staff, that have irregular hours and need to be able to see instantly on waking up, or if you are going to a music festival for a few days, then the lenses are very convenient as you don't need to fiddle around with solutions and cases in a field.
Be sure to ask your Optometrist if continuous lenses are a good option for your lifestyle and eye type.
Hope For Astigmatism Patients: Toric Lenses
Unlike standard soft lenses, toric contacts are made with two powers instead of one, so that they fully correct the astigmatic prescription caused by having an eye that is shaped more like a rugby ball than a football.
There are also toric lenses on our website that could help patients that have a tendency to dry eyes when wearing contact lenses. For instance, Biofinity Toric has a fantastic reputation in the dry eye community for its ability to naturally re-wet lenses. With modern manufacturing methods and a lot of research, manufacturers have even managed to produce Daily disposable contact lens like Daily Aquacomfort Plus toric, combining the convenience of daily wear, with the ability to correct astigmatism in one lens.
Anyone who struggles with issues like astigmatism should take a closer look at the toric contact lenses we offer. As you’ll soon see
