Consumers Guide to Buying Daily Disposable Contact Lenses

Where to Buy Daily Contact Lenses and how much?

Daily contact lenses are now readily available from your contact lens practitioner or over the internet.

Customers commonly get their initial fitting from their high street practice with instructions on safe handling and the first few check ups thrown in and then commonly buy their replacement lenses on the internet where the prices are usually better.

However, it is important to return to your practitioner every two years for a check up on your lenses to make sure your eyes are healthy and to check if your powers have changed.

If you do not buy your lenses on a ongoing basis from your practitioner, there will be a charge of about £25.00 for this check up. Make sure that you get an up to date copy of the prescription when the check up is finished.

1 Day Acuvue - Johnson & Johnson

1 Day Acuvue by Johnson and Johnson is considered the best lens in terms of comfort and quality, but this is also the most expensive lens on the market. Good packaging. UV block included and inside out indicator. Easy handling.

Focus Dailies - Cibavision

Considered to be the next best lens, but at a considerably better price. Good packaging and easy handling.

1 day Soflens - Bausch & Lomb

Handling more fiddly because their packaging is not well designed. Lens does not hold shape so well on insertion. More customer complaints about reproducibility. About the same price to buy as Focus Dailies.

Daysoft UV - Provis

Available in a wider Power range than any other daily disposable contact lens.   Comes in Boxes of 32 and incorporates UV inhibitor as standard. Packaging used to be a bit fiddly but has recently improved with a new design. Some customer complaints about reproducibility and can be prone to breakage.