"With the exceptional cleaning power of hydrogen peroxide, Clear Care cleans and disinfects lenses like no multi-purpose solution can." "Clear Care uses hydrogen peroxide to kill germs and bacteria that cause eye infections." That sounds good to me. In other words, it is 3% hydrogen peroxide, plus some salt (once the peroxide breaks down into water, this will make it saline solution, rather than just plain water) - plus a stabilizer and a cleaning agent. What's in Clear Care Hydrogen Peroxide Contact Solution?Ĭlear Care lists the following ingredients: micro-filtered hydrogen peroxide 3%, sodium chloride 0.79%, stabilized with phosphonic acid, a phosphate buffered system, and Pluronic 17R4 (a cleaning agent). (the titanium-covered plastic piece is at the very bottom of the lens case) Here's a video of hydrogen peroxide contact solution in action. By morning, there were big bubbles all over the place in there. I went back to look a few minutes later, and the top of the lens container was all full of foam, some of it sputtering out. Hundreds of teensie bubbles…… and they start bubbling up. The teeniest tinyist bubbles I can imagine immediately start to form, all over the platinum ring. Okay, well, maybe not, but I did think it was fun! When I add hydrogen peroxide contact solution to the platinum-coated plastic thing, right away it starts bubbling. Wow, you could buy this stuff just for the entertainment value. Okay, so, with great interest, I tried it again, this time using their special case. Watching Hydrogen Peroxide Clean Contact Lenses (The directions also say not to shake the case!) In addition the bubbling action while it is breaking down is also intended to help clean the contacts. That way you are sure to have it decompose completely (to water and oxygen) in a predictable time. So, the hydrogen peroxide does a fine job of cleaning contacts, but they are intentionally making the peroxide break down. Okay, so there’s the deal: after 6 hours the peroxide will be water + oxygen. The directions say to use the special lens case that comes with the solution and to leave your contacts in there for at least 6 hours. Ah ha! So, that is what that brown-colored plastic at the bottom is! Talked to a very nice customer service representative who told me that part of the lens case is platinum coated to make the peroxide break down. Then again, there is a part that is brown, but it felt like plastic. (That was my thinking.) (A number of different metals are hydrogen peroxide catalysts - things that make peroxide break down more quickly.) Or some other kind of catalyst?īut nothing in there really looked like metal to me. It started to dawn on me that the “special case” must have some kind of metal in it to make the hydrogen peroxide break down. The directions say NOT to use the solution in a regular “flat” contact lens case.Īfter I’d done it wrong (using a regular case with their solution) and I’d burned my eyes (you have to rinse off hydrogen peroxide really really really well if you do it wrong), I went back and re-read the directions. The interesting twist is that Clear Care comes with a little contact lens case, which you are told to use with the solution. (It can damage your corneas, plus it huurrrrrts.) NEVER put hydrogen peroxide in your eyes. I mean, it is great for dentures and retainers and mouthwash and cleaning toothbrushes – isn’t that a bit like cleaning contacts? So, when I found a commercial product using peroxide I thought “ah ha”!īut, as you may also know, putting hydrogen peroxide in your eyes is a huge “no no”. I have to start by saying I have wondered at times if hydrogen peroxide would make a good cleaner for contacts. Thinking about Hydrogen Peroxide as a Contact Lens Cleaner This is an interesting situation, so hang on with Know that there is a commercial hydrogen peroxide contact solution? There is.ĬIBA Vision Clear Care cleans contact lenses with hydrogen peroxide. Okay, peroxide researchers, and consumer product super-sleuths: did you
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