Echoes of the Past: Contact lens solutions dominate the market

A contact lens roadshow reaching more than a thousand practitioners across Europe earlier this month made it clear in no uncertain terms that the future of contact lenses resided in a daily disposable form.

However, Echoes of the Past from 40 years ago includes a Contact Lens Monthly section somewhat dominated by the one product that would be hit by such a development – solutions.

There are no fewer than 45 contact lens solutions for hard lenses and 24 solutions for soft lenses listed in a definitive guide to contact lens solutions in the issue. Powerful brand names including Transo, Titan, Blink-N-Clean and Kelvinsoak catch the eye, in particular, with bottle shapes and bactericidal effectiveness among the key selling points.