Cleaning contact lenses saves money.  A hydrogen peroxide cleaning & disinfecting solution extends contact lenses wearability.  My current soft contact lenses are two-week disposables.  Supposed to be discarded after two weeks of wear.  Disposable contact lenses require no maintenance.  Just soak in a saline solution.  That’s it.  After two weeks the lenses develop a residue.  Looking cloudy when it’s time to chuck them.  My lenses are $36 per box with eight lenses in each box.  It adds up.  Recall The Money Skinny™ mission is to save you time and money.   Cleaning soft disposable contact lenses significantly extends their useful life.  Let’s review cleaning and disinfecting soft contact lenses and strategies to save the most money.

Cleaning Contact Lenses with Hydrogen Peroxide

The Clear Care Cleaning & Disinfectant Solution deep cleans, loosens dirt and removes protein.  The hydrogen peroxide solution bubbles away deposits.  Lenses are visibly clearer.  The two-pack twelve ounce bottles costs about $29.  Each bottle lasts about a month with daily use.  Follow package directions for cleaning steps.  It’s easy with no rubbing or shaking.  Just soaking.  Contacts must soak at least six hours or the hydrogen peroxide stings your eyes.

More Savings Cleaning Contact Lenses

Use The Money Skinny™ Value Sourcing Technique to save even more.  Consider the Walmart Equate Cleaning & Disinfecting Solution .  The two-pack Equate brand bottles are less than $11.  One product difference is that the neutralizing disc is in the base of the solution vile with the Equate product.  The disc is attached to the lens case with the Clear Care product.  This design difference (surely patented) can cause the lens to stick to the case of the Equate brand.  If that happens, rinse the case with regular contact lens saline solution to loosen the lens.  There may be a small learning curve in removing the lenses from the case with the Equate brand.  But it’s minor.

No Process Difference Cleaning Contact Lenses

There is no process difference between using traditional saline solution versus a hydrogen peroxide solution.  The hydrogen peroxide solution is cleaning the lenses while storing them.  Saline solution just stores the lenses.

New Product Advice

The Money Skinny™ best practice is to commit at the lowest level of expense when trying a new product.  Then spend more, if needed.  Try cleaning your lenses with the Equate Cleaning & Disinfecting Solution single bottle for about $7.  If that works well, buy the Equate two-pack.  Have a problem with the sticky lens issue above?  Switch to the Clear Care brand.  You will more than offset the purchase price of the cleaning solution by extending the usable life of the lens.

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