Difference Between AOsept and Clear Care
AOsept vs. Clear Care
In our present society that demands products that can help maintain and augment vision, therapeutic and corrective lenses have become quite popular. In fact, one company has been transformed from a small eye-product store, into a US$ 1 billion empire. This American company is known as Ciba Vision. It focuses on the manufacture and sale of lenses, and the products that help clean or care for the said lenses. Examples of the latter include AOsept and Clear Care. To date, many are still having problems telling the difference between the two lens care products.
The problem in using contact lenses is that your eyes may become irritated after prolonged use, especially if rapid drying has already occurred. In this connection, many lens care products are made available for the use of every contact lens user. Traditionally, there were wetting drops that were said to ‘re-hydrate’ your eyes or lenses instantly, but modern optometrists today recommend a solution that is hydrogen peroxide-based.
AOSept is more expensive because you cannot drop it directly onto the eyes due to the nature of the solution. The AOSept solution comes with an AODisc that can help neutralize the product. This is not the usual direct, wet, no-rub lens care solution like most of the old lens care products around.
After the AOSept solution had made a mark in the lens care industry, a newer product has been developed by the same company, CIBA Vision. This product is the Clear Care solution. In terms of packaging, the Clear Care solution is described as one product that is coupled with a metallic neutralizing disc and case. This is not the same as with AOSept, for which you need to buy the metallic disc separately. Hence, the resulting price for Clear Care is relatively cheaper than that of AOSept.
AOSept does not come with a surfactant cleaner, like Clear Care, therefore it requires the user to rub the lens clean and then to rinse (an additional step). Hence, you have less direct contact with the lens when using Clear Care as opposed to using the AOSept solution. That’s why Clear Care is said to work best for a short time, and is a less durable lenses, while AOSept is practically used for more durable contact lenses that will be used for a longer period of time.
1. AOSept is an older and a more expensive lens care product compared to Clear Care.
2. AOSept is a stand alone solution wherein you need to buy an additional case and metallic disc, whereas Clear Care has all three components in one package, including the solution itself.
3. Clear Care comes with a built in surfactant cleaner, while AOSept does not have any.
4. Using Clear Care allows less direct contact with the lens during the cleaning process, as opposed to using AOSept, which requires more contact with the lens.
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Clear Care is not an option for those of us who are sensitive to the cleaning agents added. I’ve tried Clear Care several times over the years and after about 1 month each time, I experience dry eyes and eyelid irritation. It significantly reduces my ability to comfortably wear lenses.
As soon as I switch back to AOsept my eyes are fine and I can wear the lenses all day again. I clean my lenses first with Miraflow, rinse with a sterile, non preserved saline solution and then use the AOsept system.
It is more expensive, but Clear Care does not work for me.
I wish they would simply leave the AOSEPT product alone. I am tired of buying AOSEPT only to be thrust upon a 2 oz trial of their Clear Care product. (I throw each of these away). I have tried the Clear Care product several times. IT simply irritates my eyes so badly I have to throw away my contacts and start over again with AOSEPT. NOTE::: I have used AOSEPT with Mirraflow daily cleaner and Sensitive Eyes saline since I was 15 — that means I have used this product with NO complains and NO issues for 35 years now!!!!
Now I am also faced with MiraFlow having also been discontinued. COME ON guys.. If it works – LEAVE it alone !!
I know most contact wearers are probably a bit more tolerant and face it (lazy about their cleaning) so a one solutions does everything meets the masses. But believe me; for those of us whom have severe sensitivities to cleaners, stabilizers and what ever; there is NO SUBSTITUTE…. Please keep the AOSEPT product as is and quite trying to force us to change — IT IS NOT AN OPTION !!!!
I wind up now buying my products online in BULK every time I find it; cause I have already undergone several SHORTAGES within distribution. So I tend to buy like 2 years supply at a time now — and YES I throw out each one of those lousy Clear Care bottles.
If AOSEPT is suddenly gone from the pipeline — I will be forced to Lazer correction surgery. — In poetic justice; that removes my funding from the Ciba Vision income stream.
I have had the same problem other people. I have used AOsept for years and have never had any issues with my eyes, etc. I always have comfortable wear/no eye irritation. When I use the Clear Care I get dry eyes, irritation, makes my lenses uncomfortable and I am not able to see well. AOsept is the best, I don’t know what I would use if this was taken off the market. Clear Care does not work for me(the cleaning agent or whatever the difference in the two is the issue).