Dry eye syndrome is a common eye disorder that results when tear production can’t keep up with the rate at which your eyes dry up. Experienced by many, Dry eye is highly uncomfortable, and usually requires frequent attention with artificial tears to provide relief.

Unfortunately, Winter is traditionally the worst season for dry eye syndrome, as the environmental factors that trigger dry eye in addition to natural causes become more prevalent. When you combine windy, dry winter weather with dry, furnace-heated air indoors, it’s not uncommon for your eyes to dry out even without a predisposition to dry eye syndrome.

Luckily, AC Lens carries over forty different types of over the counter dry eye relief, all of which can help alleviate inflamed, irritated eye symptoms that seem to pop up more frequently during the winter. Eye drops such as Opti-Free PureMoist, Viva Drops, Similasan, and Lobob Optimum Rewetting Drops,  carry eye drops for specific conditions, and are all available at AC Lens at discounted prices.

While artificial tears may always be necessary, especially for chronic dry eye, there are some measures that can be taken to improve environmental causes of dry eye. Adding a humidifier during the winter will help combat excessively dry air common in furnace-heated homes. Plants can also improve humidity within a home, which will lower the rate at which your eyes dry out. Wearing sunglasses when outdoors is not only helpful for protecting your eyes against harmful UV rays, but also can block outdoor wind that would otherwise carry away your eye’s moisture. For cigarette smokers, smoking outside can help rid the air of drying smoke, and quitting smoking altogether is even more significant. If possible, avoid using hair dryers or sitting close to heating ducts. In addition to outside factors, eating a balanced & healthy diet along with plentiful exercise & hydration will go a long way towards alleviating dry eye symptoms.

For further information speak to an eye care physician about which product and treatment is right for you, and then head on over to AC Lens to find the best pricing for eye care treatments. Buy eye drops online at AC Lens now.

The Contact Solution Contact Lens Case is now available in a travel size – 1.15 oz. It is TSA approved for airline travel in the United States and abroad. This contact lens case is a specially designed to hold solution in the body, your contact lenses in the case, and includes a mirror so you can put in your contacts. It’s an all-in-one solution that is perfect for consolidating your carry-on luggage. Certified leak free, the Contact Solution Contact Lens Travel Case has durable construction that protects your lenses and includes fixed R and L caps to ensure you never mix lenses.

The case can store up to three weeks of your favorite contact lens solution inside the case. The solution dispenses from inside the case with the one touch button located between the two contact lens compartments.

Get a your travel contact lenses case by Contact Solution Inc. and other eye care accessories at AC Lens.

It’s probably safe to say just about everyone has a pair of sunglasses or two. But the most well known iconic brand of sunglasses are most likely Ray-Bans. Ray-Ban has been producing classic styles in fashion sunglasses since the 1930′s. The most popular styles that comes to mind are Aviators and Wayfarers.

The Aviator style was popularized by the U.S. Military in WWII, and they have been one of the most recognizable styles for over 70 years. These are the frames that actually gave the Ray-Ban their iconic name; created to “ban” pilot’s eyes from harmful sun “rays”. Because of their edgy but effortlessly cool look, Aviators were eventually made for public sale and not just for the military.

Wayfarers were developed by Bausch & Lomb in 1952, a revolutionary break from the metal eyewear of the past. The Wayfarers were “a mid-century classic to rival Eames’ chair and Cadillac’s tail fins,” according to design critic Stephen Bayley. The Wayfarer style was popular throughout the 1950′s and 1960′s, but faded out in the 1970′s. Due to a 1982 product placement deal, Wayfarer sunglasses made a comeback and are currently enjoying a revival in the realm of most popular sunglasses.

Ray-Ban still remains a top designer in the sunglasses industry with their constant change in color, frames, and lenses. It would be hard to decide between the Aviators and Wayfarers, which are both the best-selling designs of sunglasses in history.

AC Lens carries all styles of Ray-Bans at discount prices; from Aviators, Wayfarers, Jackie Ohh and more!

The real issue for teens and wearing contacts is not their age, but whether they are responsible enough to wear and care for contact lenses properly. Parents, teens, and their eye doctor must make this decision together.

Even though there are a lot of trendy glasses available now for teens, contact lenses may help teens have more self-esteem.
Teens are self-conscious, and with contacts they could feel more attractive and accepted instead of wearing glasses. They’re also an advantage for active teens who play sports.

The responsibility of cleaning contact lenses is easier than ever, just one bottle of multi-purpose solution and a case. Of course, one type of contact lens — daily disposable — doesn’t need a cleaning regimen because the lenses are thrown in the trash at the end of each day. For this reason, daily disposable contacts are a great vision correction option for most teenagers.

For contacts that do require care, many eye care practitioners report that teens and children are more diligent about cleaning their contact lenses than are adults, who after years of wearing them, often become more casual about lens care. Young people are more careful about following directions given them by a medical professional.

With contact lenses you also always have a “back up pair”, glasses are easily broken and expensive to replace. It’s impossible to generalize about cost. As with eyeglasses, the cost of contact lenses varies widely, depending on the brand, the prescription, and how often the lenses are replaced. Daily disposable contacts are a special case, because they don’t require any cleaning supplies or containers. It depends on the brand and the supplier, but daily disposables usually cost about $1 per day, making them affordable for most people and great contacts for children.

Take you teen to your eye doctor and see if contacts are right for them.

Ray-Ban is the global leader in premium eyewear market and by far the best-selling eyewear brand in the world. Style, tradition and freedom of expression are the key values underpinning the philosophy of Ray-Ban, for generations the undisputed world leader in sun and prescription eyewear.

Find Ray-Ban sunglasses including Aviator, Original Wayfarer, Jackie Ohh and more at AC Lens.

AC Lens would like to remind our customers that the Acuvue Rebate and Ciba Vision Contact Lens Rebate for 2011 will expire on 12/31/2011. Take advantage of these savings on your contact lenses before they are gone.

Shop AC Lens today for your contact lenses and save up to $85 or $100 with Ciba Vision and Acuvue rebates.

You can find healthy gifts and designer sunglasses at AC Lens this season. AC Lens carries a wide selection of gift items from low cost stocking stuffers up to brand name gifts from Smith, SunCloud, and more. Don’t forget, every order over $99 receives Free Shipping.

Shop AC Lens for great stocking stuffers including unique contact lens cases, prescription swimming goggles, designer sunglasses, and much more. Not sure what to get? Try AC Lens gift certificates so your special someone can come back for contact lenses at great prices.

Shop Holiday Gift Ideas

Smith Optics Chemist Premium Lifestyle Sunglasses

Smith Optics Serpico Sunglasses

Suncloud Optics Cookie Polarized Sunglasses

LensAlert! Contact Lens Timer

Contact Solution Contact Lens Case

Peepers Makeup Glasses

You may have started out life without needing any type of glasses, but it is possible you may need reading glasses. You’ll know you need them when you’ve reached the of point of not being able to read close up anymore. There are two types of styles of Reading Glasses you can choose from; Full Frames which the lens makes up the entire prescription, and half frames which are the smaller “Ben Franklin” style that sit low on your nose.

Full frames are mostly for people who spend a lot of time looking at things close up. After you’ve been staring in a small area for a while and you look up things can often look blurry in the distance.

Half frame reading glasses let you look down while working or reading and then up and over them to see things in a distance with out it being blurry. Most people who never needed glasses always start out with a pair of reading glasses before they need a bifocal or no line progressive pair.

There are even handy accessories for temporary use like small foldable readers that fit in pen-sized cases and magnifiers that hang around your neck like a pendant. There is also plastic lenses mounted in credit card-sized holders that slip easily in a wallet that are perfect for the situation for when you just want to know what the menu actually says at a dim lit restaurant.

For moments out in the sun tinted reading glasses with UV protection are available too; a popular type is the sunglass bifocal, with a nonprescription upper half for looking far away and a reading prescription in the lower half for close up.

AC Lens has all these styles and many frames to choose from. Browse our selection of reading glasses today.

Time is starting to run out on making your Halloween costume even more realistic with costume contact lenses. With Halloween a little over two weeks away, those looking to buy crazy contacts need to see an eye doctor to get their prescription updated so they can order these lenses online at AC Lens.

Here are the top 5 so far in 2011:

Yellow Cat Eyes Contacts

Vampire Red Contacts

Edward Cullen Contacts

Zombie Green Contacts

Darth Contacts

Set your costume apart from the rest this year with Special Effects contact lenses. Visit AC Lens to see our full selection.

AC Lens has been advised that Ciba Vision Focus Softcolors 1-2 Week contact lenses will be discontinued 12/31/2012 and will no longer be available for order. We are alerting our customers as a service, and we invite you to place your orders for replacement contact lenses before production ends.

If you need to switch to a new lens ask your doctor about what’s right for you and your lifestyle. Cooper Vision recommends switching to Freshlook color contact lenses.