Joel Hayden (00:00): All right, guys. Today we're going to talk
about the best contact lens solution out there for your monthly or bi-weekly contact lenses. If that
interests you, stick around. Joel Hayden (00:19):
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Joel Hayden (00:35): So, which contact lens
solution is the best? Well, there's a lot of them. We're going to talk about primarily the top three
to four. I came up with a few different ways of trying to figure out how we're going to determine
what the best contact lens solution is. And these are the four ways that I came up with.
Joel Hayden (01:00): One was trying to figure out
what the most popular one out there is, as far as which one's bought the most. It's not readily
available data. The companies are never going to tell us, but I found a cool little backdoor way of
at least taking one of the biggest retailers in the country and finding out
how many they sell. That's kind of cool. Joel Hayden (01:24):
The next was to go by the best ratings for the products
by the users. Make sense, right? If they like it the best, obviously they're probably going to buy
it, which will go back to the most popular, but we'll see if it's any different between the most
popular and the highest rating. Joel Hayden (01:47):
Next, I thought it would be great to take a look at some of the studies and see if the studies
show any favorability as far as protecting your eyes from certain bacteria, viruses,
things like that. And then lastly, I thought that taking my own experience of 27 years fitting
thousands of contact lenses to my patients, which one I liked the best. There's your four
choices as to the best contact lens solutions. Joel Hayden (02:23):
Okay, guys. For the first two, which were the most popular and the highest rating,
I'm going to show you in a little piece of software I have, how I determined that. Let's
take a look at that. Joel Hayden (02:39):
All right, guys. I'm going to show you Jungle Scout quick. Jungle Scout is a company that
does something really cool. They allow you to search through Amazon for any type of searchable
products, how many are being sold on Amazon, what's the best seller. So I'm just at the
pricing plan, but you could actually go to Jungle Scout if this interests, and I'm going to show
you how it works. The link will be down in the description box to Jungle Scout. And I thought
I would just start off by showing you who they are, but now we're going to go to Amazon.
Joel Hayden (03:18): Good. I'm logged in. Then
we're going to search on Amazon for contact lens solutions. And up it comes. And obviously you guys
know how to search on Amazon. Here are
sponsored, which are paid, people pay to have their products up higher. Here are the actual
search information. But watch what happens when we pull up the Jungle Scout. There's
actually some good information down here too on monthly revenue, but here it compares it all.
Joel Hayden (04:10): You can see that on average, the products
sold with contact lens solutions, which is what I searched for 3,753 are sold a month, their average
ranking, their average price and their average reviews and their opportunities for it, which
is something in Jungle Scout that they use to tell you whether it's a good product to
consider making and selling an Amazon. Joel Hayden (04:37):
Not that I'm interested in that. I'm interested in showing you
what the number one selling contact lens solution on Amazon is. And here it is.
It's Biotrue, selling 35,287 units last month at a price of $15,98 for a total revenue of $563,886.
This is really cool. And then it gives you their rank as to how they ranked overall for the month
in Amazon. And then of course you can scroll as many as you want. This is the first 66 units,
but I thought this was really cool to show you, at least in Amazon,
what's sold more than anything else. Joel Hayden (05:27):
Now, let's say instead of that you want to see who's got the best reviews.
Boston Advance for their hard contacts has a review of 5.0. The only one.
Then the only one with 4.9 is Biotrue. So, not only is it, A, the most popular as far
as the number sold, it's actually a two-pack, and a one pack, both having a 4.9 rating.
But the one that sold so much was the two-pack, which is really cool.
Joel Hayden (06:10): Again, that's Jungle Scout. And so, that answers
two of our questions, which is: who sells the most, at least on Amazon, which is probably the
biggest retailer in the world right now, and then who has the highest rating. And at least again,
in Amazon, it looks to be Biotrue. Joel Hayden (06:31):
All right, guys. Then for number three. I was looking to see if I could find some studies on
which contact lens solution is better than another, whether it be because of
its efficacy against certain bacteria or comfort or stabilization on the tear film,
or staining of the cornea. And I got to tell you, there wasn't a ton out there. At least with
many of today's newest contact lens solutions. Joel Hayden (07:01):
But as you can see, there were three that I found and all three favored none of them.
One of them wanted to know... they set certain parameters for the solutions and
they all passed. Another one was testing it against acanthamoeba. I believe they all passed.
In one study about disinfection efficacy of the contact lens solution, it tested Renu, Opti-Free
and Aosept, which was a predecessor to Clear Care and they all met the requirements. So, that wasn't
particularly helpful. And the other two studies were very similar in that it didn't give us any
clear winner as to the best. Joel Hayden (07:51):
As far as the studies go, I really couldn't find anything that was worthwhile
to show you. But I did try and that's going to take us to the fourth. And the fourth
means by figuring out, which is the best contact lens solution, it's just my favorite. The Alcon
products over the last 15 years have been awesome. And I've been very happy with the Opti-Free. Most
of my patients use it. I can't begin to tell you that it's been safer than anything else,
but I can tell you that my patients have done well with it. And I've seen very few
side effects with it. Joel Hayden (08:33):
Guys, I have to trust what thousands of people have said on Amazon, in ordering the Biotrue, so
I think the Biotrue is the winner. I still have a lot of faith in Opti-Free. I have had
great results with it. I think they're both tremendous products. And then just quickly,
I wanted to talk about something called Clear Care. And Clear Care is something we use when
patients have sensitivities to the preservatives in the contact lens solution.
Joel Hayden (09:03): If you're a contact
lens wearer and you're having problems with finding a solution that's really comfortable:
number one, stay away from the generics. Number two, try brand name. Number three, if that doesn't
work, go to the Clear Care. The peroxide, which is H2O2 is what you put the contact lens in at night.
And by morning, the little disc at the bottom creates a chemical reaction, which converts it
to perfect saline. And then you're taking it out with no preservative, putting it in your eye.
It tends to be much more comfortable. Joel Hayden (09:38):
I hope that was helpful. I hope you learned a lot. I thought that it was some really good information
that I wanted to share. If you like the video, please do hit that like button and please consider
subscribing so that I can give you some more great information as we go forward. Take care.