Where to find Clear Care Contact Solution Around the World
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Until today, I don’t think I realized Clear Care had such a crazy fanbase.
Summary: Clear Care peroxide-based contact lens solution can be very difficult to find overseas. It’s helpful to know that Clear Care and AO Sept Plus are the same product!
Consider dropping a comment below and helping us source Clear Care (AO Sept) around the world! Definitely feel free to skip to the bottom of this post for quick answers.
Years ago I was turned on to the peroxide-based contact lens cleaner/solution called Clear Care; previously, I had never really considered the funky expensive solution that came with its own bizarro case. In fact, some day I’ll tell you the story about how I bought that solution out of desperation/ignorance/poor labeling, and I squirted hydrogen peroxide directly into both of my eyes, single-handedly scarring a friend’s psyche (it’s hard to verbally describe what’s going on when both of your eyeballs are suddenly on fire and your companion is wondering why you are screaming) and almost my own peepers. But this post is not about that. This post is about the Quest for the Holy Grail of eye care: peroxide-based contact care.
When BJ & I left home, we thought we were going to be on the road for at least 10 months. One 32 oz bottle lasts one month, and I have one backpack to my name; translation: I can’t bring a 10 bottle stash of my Clear Care with me. At first I just tried Googling around to see if I would be able to find my magic juice overseas, but didn’t get any leads. I researched the distribution of Clear Care, but didn’t find anything that made me more comfortable. So, I set out with a few bottles, figuring I would either find some on the road, or I would alternate between regular contact solution (Renu is readily available most everywhere) and the magical peroxide one. (For those of you not on the Clear Care train yet, it makes my contacts feel fresher for longer; at the end of the month, it doesn’t feel like I’m watching the world through a dirty windshield). I had high hopes, though.
Montage time! (This next part is more fun if you imagine an India Jones-type map and my flying all over the globe in search of contact solution.) I didn’t search too hard in the north and south of India, as I knew that was a lost cause (although I didn’t scour Mumbai). Nepal, I barely tried, although I met some great pharmacists there. But Singapore… I figured it ANYWHERE would come through for me, it would be Singapore. Singapore–none, zero, zilch. A city of superlatives and world-class attractions, but bupkis in the peroxide eyecare world. (UPDATE: I HAVE found it in Singapore, glory be!)
Victory!
I figured I was done for, but I continued my search throughout Indonesia (Bali & Lombok) and Thailand (Bangkok & Chiang Mai). Chiang Mai, you’re practically an American city, how y’gonna do my contact solution needs like that? By now, 5 months later, I was down to my last bottle. We moved on to George Town, Penang (Malaysia) and it was there that I finished my last bottle. We happened to be in the KOMTAR complex/Pacific Marketplace and we passed a Guardian Pharmacy. I like to peruse local pharmacies anyways, and out of habit I looked for the eye care section. And there it was… a whole row of AO Sept Plus. Now, AO Sept is made by Ciba Vision, the same company that makes Clear Care. Apparently back in the day it used to take more steps/equipment to use AO Sept, but AO Sept Plus is basically the same exact thing as Clear Care. (Hey, more SKUs makes for more shelf space!)
I had found it, the first day I truly needed it. Dear AO Sept, I would have bought every single one of you had we not been making a visit to the U.S. next month.
So, what is the point of this blog post? Basically, it’s only directed to those of you who are traveling in Asia (update: all over the world!) and are having concerns about the integrity of your corrective eyeball covers. Some of you might be rejoicing, some disappointed, and most of you just wishing you had 4 minutes of your life back. But I have my contact solution.
Readers have contributed GREAT information! Here is a list of reported Yays and Nays around the world. Please let me know if you find it somewhere not on this list!
Yes
Mendoza, Argentina (as AO Sept)
Thailand (Boots pharmacy. UPDATE: I have looked in MANY Boots, Watsons, and optician around Bangkok, and NO ONE has anything close to AO Sept anymore. No spaces on the shelves, no indication of it returning.)
Chiang Mai (only in glasses / contact lens shops)
Hong Kong
Taiwan (Watsons pharmacy)
Hanoi, Vietnam (Hanoi Medical University Hospital — Eye division)
New Zealand (only in glasses / contact lens shops)
Cairns, Australia (pharmacies)
Singapore
Seoul
Tokyo
Kuala Lumpur (UPDATE: it seems to be more difficult to find it in 2017 than it was in 2013; all the pharmacies I checked had a slot on the shelf for AO Sept but they were all empty. They do have a version where you can add a B-12 pill to the solution in order to neutralize the formula, but I have not tried this solution).
Still a No…
Saigon
ALL of India
Nepal
Bhutan
Myanmar
Laos
Indonesia (Bali/Lombok)
Morocco
And as far as I can tell, none in Mexico (at least Central Mexico), Peru, Ecuador
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This is so helpful! Clear Care is the only contact lens solution I use willingly. The other kinds I’m allergic to I guess– found that out when I was studying in New Zealand and my eyes became really itchy and I was having trouble seeing, so my mom had to send me some Clear Care (which they didn’t have in NZ at the time though I’m sure they’ve seen the light now) all the way from the States! I’ve always had a hard time finding it while traveling, especially outside of big cities, even in places like the UK. And when you’re traveling for a while, it’s not really feasible to bring a huge stash with you. Thanks for the heads up about Aosept Plus, and SE Asia– an area of the world that is on my list of places to go within the next few years!
Hi Lauren! I am SO SO happy to hear that post was helpful for you; I was positive that I wasn’t the only person that would be scouring the ends of the earth for Clear Care! I’ll probably keep an emergency stash with friends in India & Nepal, but it’s great that Bangkok & Kuala Lumpur have it since they’re such convenient hubs for traveling in SE Asia. By the by, we’d be more than happy to help make that trip to SE Asia happen for you : ) Keep in touch and thank you so much for giving me feedback! Take care, [another] ~Lauren
Thanks for the pointer that AO Sept is the same as Clear Care!!
AOSept is not the same as Clear Care, as it lacks the surfactant that loosens protein from the lens surface.
However, AOSept *Plus* is the same as Clear Care.
Thanks for reading! I get into that detail in the text, just not the headline, but thank you for the clarification!
Thank you so much for your post! Housekeeping threw away my clear care case and I thought I would have to use another brand. They don’t understand why I was so upset.
Is AO Sept available in Mumbai, India. My son is using the Boston Scleral Lenses and needs AO Sept to disinfect the lens. Or is it available at least in any other town in India, please help. vera
Hi Vera,
I have never seen anything but Renu products in India, but I have never looked in Mumbai (and if any Indian city would have it, it’s Mumbai!) I wish him luck, and please let me know if he finds it, so I can update the blog and tell other people!
Thailand has it all over at Boots Pharmacy. Very easy to find. Have not been able to find it in Vietnam in either Hanoi or Saigon yet for past 3 months. Down to my last bottle. May have to switch to Renu.
Thanks, Dick! I had looked in a few Boots, but maybe they were smaller locations–very good to know. I’ll be headed to Vietnam in 2 weeks and will search, too–I’ll let you know if I find it anywhere (although I’m sure you searched quite thoroughly!)
Hi. Thanks for this posting. I can add that Aosept Plus is easy to find in pharmacies in Hong Kong.
Gah! I brought 3 or 4 bottles in my backpack & now I’m on my last bottle & am living in Saigon (HCMC), Vietnam for the next few months at least. Has anyone had any luck finding it?! I’m going to start the hunt soon.
Hi Stephanie! I don’t think I checked in HCMC because I was headed home shortly. Please PLEASE let us know if you find any! Best of luck!
Lauren, you can find AOSEPT Plus in Watsons Pharmacies in Taiwan.
Thanks you for that update–I appreciate it!!
I was amazed to find this post because it was just the highly specialized void-filing information I needed!
I recently moved to southern India and was unsure about being able to find the majestic hydrogen peroxide solution that keeps my contacts from attacking my own eyeballs. (Technical term is uveitis which means your white blood cells infiltrate your eye attempting to fix what they think is an infection and they actually just screw things up for you.)
So, since I’m now calling India home, I didn’t pack much of my contact solution thinking I can just be cultural and adjust. After just two days of using Renu regular old run of the mill solution, I can now safely say, that isn’t going to freaking work. So I’m pulling strings and having friends smuggle it in their luggage for me and debating about spending the small fortune it would cost to order it online.
I’ll keep hunting through my city and state but this helpful post has really cleared up my confusion. It is helpful to know sometimes that there is no hope. Guess I’ll have to plan regular trips out of country and stock up on my contraband. On the flip side, I know corrective laser eye surgery is now running about 300 USD here. Might just get out of the corrective lenses game altogether.
Anyway, I greatly appreciated the highly specific insight!
Found aosept in New Zealand, but you have to purchase from an eye glass/eye doctor directly, it is not sold in New Zealand pharmacies. The cost for two bottles was NZ$54.
Also found a 2-bottle pack in Cairns, Australia at a pharmacy called the discount chemist across from Cairns Central Mall.
Good to know, Lynn–thank you!
And now for the Indonesia report… You can get AO Sept Plus online here: http://www.lensza.co.id/solutions/ao-sept-plus-360ml. I didn’t know until today that it’s the same as ClearCare which I’ve been using for years. I’ve had to impose on friends and acquaintances to bring me bottles of ClearCare from the USA since I start living in Bali 4 years ago. ClearCare is nowhere to be found in Bali but now I’ll start looking for AO Sept Plus and I’ll start with the local Guardian Pharmacy which must be the same chain as in Malaysia. Thanks everyone for the great information.
You’d think there are enough ex-pats in Bali to warrant some AO Sept action! Good luck, and let us know if it ever pops up in Guardian! (I was just there last week and still no dice :P )
Thank you for sharing this! I found it very helpful in preparing for a Southeast Asia backpacking trip.
Stéphanie, You can find AO Sept Plus at Ha Noi Medical University Hospital – Eyes Department (Bệnh viện Đại học Y Hà Nội – Khoa Mắt). It’s in Ha Noi City but you can order it to transfer to Sai Gon (Ho Chi Minh City of Viet Nam). Hope this information for you (even it’s late) and somebody maybe need this.
That’s GREAT information! Thank you!!
Update on Hanoi … I went to the Hanoi Medical University Hospital today but they would not sell me AO Sept. It is not clear to me whether they did not have it or they just wouldn’t sell it to me. But they did give me an address (6 Nguyen Thi Thap, Trung Hoa) of a clinic where they did sell it to me. Hope that helps someone else!
That’s a great help–thanks, Gary!!
Thanks so much for this post Lauren, I should have sent you a message months ago when I was standing in a Georgetown Pharmacy in Penang reading your blog post about AO Sept Plus — I only trusted Clear Care too, and stumbled on AO Sept Plus and wondered if it was the same. Thankfully I found your post and it put me at ease to purchase it.
I came back to your site today, to look to see if anyone had mentioned Indonesia — as my wife and I are heading there on Monday and I’m going with only a carry-on backpack, so I’m thinking… do I need to buy some extra Clear Care and break it down into smaller bottles for the trip or what? Looks like someone found it online in Indonesia, looks promising.
I also wanted to say that you can get Clear Care (although the outside packaging is different) in Chiang Mai — but strangely not at the pharmacy, only at the shops that sell glasses and contacts. I don’t know if they all sell it, but at least two shops on Suthep Road between Nimman and the Old City carry it. Once is right next door to a huge pharmacy and they sent me next door, or I may never have found it. Also got a free eye test and purchased replacements of my Air Optix Aqua lenses there. So easy!
Thanks again for a useful blog post!
Wow, thank YOU for all that information! I need to sit down one of these days and incorporate all of these tips, including more recent ones from personal experience (like, so far, none in all of central Mexico, Peru, or the big cities in Ecuador!) I really appreciate the input, and I look forward to exploring your site more in depth (looks very cool thus far! :) )
Actually to be more accurate in Thailand it’s called Clean Care — for whatever reason, but the wording talks about AO Sept and protein remover — it’s worked well for me, maybe not quite the same formula. I found some pictures of it online here – http://www.siamcontact.com/content/aosept-clean-care-12-fl-oz-360-ml
Oh wow, even that page now says it’s discontinued! Bummer!!! What is happening, SE Asia?!!??!
Thank You for this – very helpful! Looks like i will have to take more bottles with me than i thought! The lack of solution in Thailand, Bali and Myanmar has made me very nervous for travelling around Asia as I need to use this solution as my contact lenses are supposed to last for 6 months. ( I have a very expensieve and usual prescription!) Has anyone found any in Cambodia? I live in England and can assure you that you can get AO Sept currently in most Boots shops here in the UK. Boots and Superdrug also do their own brand peroxide solutions which are just as good and come with a neautralising case. There are also cheaper options where you need to neutralise the solution with a tablet which I’ve bought by accident a few times. These work just as well as long as you remember to put the tablet in! (You can be sure you’ll never make that painful mistake twice!!)
Hi Gemma! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but at least you can be more prepared! And PLEASE do let me know if you find any in Thailand (or Bali or Myanmar, for that matter!) And oh my gosh…I literally feel your pain, haha… Before I even knew about Clear Care, I accidentally bought a bottle (unexpected sleepover back in the day) and squirted it DIRECTLY IN BOTH OF MY EYES as eyedrops. Wow. Like you said—not a mistake you make twice! Since then they’ve put a ton of huge warnings and red caps on it ;)
Hi! I didn’t bring my clearcare solution to Bali because I thought it would be easy to find… Well, I was wrong! I read your blog post and got really sad about not being able to find my favourite contact lens cleaner. But good news! After searching for three days, I finally found AO Sept Plus at Mal Galleria in Bali! It was in the Optik store on the lower level of the mall. They didn’t seem to have many in stock but it’s there if you want it!
Thanks for your tips!
Oh my, hallelujah! Despite all the ex-pats there, I thought Bali was going to be one of the last places to find it. THANK YOU for sharing this!!
oxysept is carried by some eye specialists in india. but not everywhere.
If you can give any specifics at all (city, or even name of the specialist) that would be GREAT!
Glad I came across this blog. My 41yo eyes can’t handle multi-purpose solutions anymore so i’ve switched to Oxycept. What a difference. Last night I used Revitalens just to test the waters again and my eyes were a gunky mess by the end of the day.
Was in Bangkok in 2015 and I don’t recall seeing any peroxide based systems. Hopefully going back this spring so thanks for the heads up that Clear Care isn’t always easy to find over there. I guess i’ll be checking-in a bag with a full size bottle haha.
Hiya Paul! Do let us know if you find any of the peroxide-based solutions in Bangkok, ok? Good luck & safe travels!!
Clear Care was discontinued in Thailand couple years ago. It was indeed a bad news for me who addicted to it for 20 years. I had planned desperately to buy it overseas and carry back to Thailand, unfortunately, as it is a peroxide based solution, it is also forbidden for boarding. My luggage was a real mess when I once unguarded loaded it with Clear Care inside.
Hi Feliz! What a bummer! Although, if you bought the travel sized Clear Care options, I don’t see why you would not be able to bring them aboard a plane. Likewise, I carry 3-5 full-sized bottles with me at a time (we travel for long stretches) and I just make sure I have them enclosed in a ziploc plastic bag or something similar (even a waterproof bag!) to avoid any luggage mishaps. SO far, so good!
(Actually, it looks like hydrogen peroxide is not technically allowed on planes in the USA, but…I suppose it’s up to you if you want to roll the dice.)
Thanks for this article. I wish I had read it before coming to Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Like many others, in thought it would be easy to find. Nope, not in Phnom Penh. Just lots of ReNu.
A missionary connection is bringing me six bottles this week from the States.
A local former Clear Care user told me to store it in the refrigerator as the heat tends to break down the bubbly effect. (she quit using it because it was so hard to find).
Here’s hoping, as I can only go one day without CLEANING the protein off.
Oh my gosh, Christmas is comin’ EARLY for you–six bottles! It’s a huge bummer not to be able to restock overseas :(
Hi there! I’m wondering if anybody knows if this solution is available in Tokyo or Seoul??
I’d love to know, too–anyone??
Hello! does anyone know if this contact solution is available in Chiang Rai Thailand?
I have looked everywhere and have had no luck.
I hope someone can help! Good luck, and let us know if you find any (although if there was none in Chiang Mai, I would be shocked if there was any in Chiang Rai :( )
I live in Thailand and it’s been available here at an internet shop (Lazada) until recently. Now not anymore though.
Seems that now it’s not available here in Thailand anymore at all.
Am using my last bottle now.
Helpppppp.
After internet shop Lazada recently stopped selling the (Japanese import) bottles in Thailand, I started a new search.
Just found a Thai website that stated that they (the producer in Japan) stopped the production.
Using my last bottle now. I wish I had ordered more bottles at Lazada last time. lol.
I’m afraid I have to start wearing glasses ….
That’s terrible, I’m sorry to hear that! I feel it’s time to contact these companies [again] to ask What’s Up?!?!
I just contacted Alcon on their website. Basically asked when Clear Care/Aosept will be available again in South-East Asia.
If many people do the same , maybe we will get an answer? ….
Hi Guys
Are we saying we can no longer get this solution in Chiang Mai?
Was planning on restockng there but if not possible I’ll have to take about 4 bottles with me…luckiy in th US right now so can do this!
Also I tried looking in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru and never saw any. Although admittedly I wasn’t looking very hard as wasn’t desperate at that point!
Thanks in advance!
Hi Gemma,
There wasn’t a lick to be found anywhere in February, and I looked all over shops and eye doctor offices. Sorry! Do keep us updated if you DO find some there, though!
Hello Gemma,
I’m from the US (Ohio) living in Chiang Rai can you bring me some!!
55555
Oh man, what a great Clear Care community we have!! :D
Since the clear care aosept bottles are not for sale anymore in Thailand, I started thinking about an alternative.
Many years ago, before there were one step cleaning fluids, I used two step cleaning fluids which worked well for me. The two step cleaning fluids consisted of a cleaning fluid and a neutral fluid.
So now I decided to start cleaning my lenzes the same way as back then.
I made my own two step cleaning. I use the new kind of one step cleaning fluid (which irritates my eyes) followed by a neutral fluid (I use rewetting eye drops for that).
How does it work?
Now I clean my lenzes overnight with the regular cleaning fluid that’s for sale everywhere. And in the morning I take my lenzes out of the cleaning fluid and then rinse them with normal neutral eye drops (so the lenzes are then free from cleaning fluid). After that I put the lenzes in my eyes.
So far no problems with irritated red eyes anymore.
I’ve been using AO Sept/Clear Care for about 20 years – I’ve never seen it in China! I’m in Penang for about 3 weeks, and just have a single travel bottle on me. I popped into a Watson’s in Butterworth (Penang) to see what my options were and saw AO Sept!!! I had to check production and expiration dates – I haven’t seen it branded that way in years! I was so stoked to find it too! Hope the rest of your journey went well!
Oh yeah. I made the mistake of rinsing my contacts with it one or two times when I started using it too. That. Hurts. With the intensity of 1,000 suns.
-John
Oh, that’s super to hear, thanks for sharing about Penang! I’m here in Thailand right now and still NOTHING–Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, at least. Boooo!
I was in Kuala Lumpur for a convention and thought I would take a look in Caring Pharmacy. Sure enough —I found AOSept and Ocysept (I had never seen it before. It looks comparable.)
That’s great news! I have an overnight layover there next week and will stock up before I go to Nepal!
Hi Luaran, we’re from NZ and our 10 year old son wears Otho-k lenses so we rely on this solution. We’re 9 months into our year long RTW trip and finding solutions has been exhausting! I naively thought we could buy it anywhere so we only packed a couple of months worth to get us through China and Russia. Thankfully we found it the UK before we ran out. But since then we have only managed to find it in Zegreb in Croatia. Now we’re in Asia again and we’re about to run out. We spent a couple of hours walking around Saigon yesterday trying to track down otho-k specialists. All leads turned up nothing. Tomorrow we head to Cambodia then Thailand before we head to Japan. Our optician in NZ contacted his rep who said we should be able to find it in Bangkok or Tokyo. But now I’m concerned having read the earlier comment that the factory in Japan has stopped production. But thanks to your article I now no that I need to do some more research and possibly get some shipped to my brother’s in Tokyo. Thanks for the heads up or I would have waited until I got to Bangkok or Tokyo then it might have been to late to organise shipping. My advice for people traveling to parts of the world other than UK, US, NZ or Australia – do your homework and pack as much as you can in your suitcase before you leave home. Cheers K
I feel for you, what an exhausting, fruitless search! Actually, I have a question for you–did you look (with any success) anywhere in Greece, Italy, and France, as we are headed there this summer. And yeah, I had NO luck in Bangkok in February, only in Kuala Lumpur. I recently bought 7 bottles from 2 shops at the KLIA 2 airport & bought EXTRA baggage to check, specifically for the solution. The lengths we go to! Best of luck, and if you DO happen to find it in Bangkok or Tokyo, come back here and let us know!!!
You can buy ao sept in france online (optique leclerc but website is in french) or at the opticians!
Anyone know if it’s available in Spain (Madrid or Barcelona)? I’m struggling to find some
I hope someone can help (it’ll be very helpful for me to know, too!)
Head to an optometrist! They have it thankfully.
For a while now I have changed back to the way of cleaning which was normal when I started wearing lenzes 30 years ago. This works perfectly.
Back then there was no 1 step cleaning method yet. There was only a 2 step method using a basic cup lens holder to clean and keep the lenzes in. The aosept 2 step cleaning.
Step 1: Cleaning
This was the 3% hydrogen peroxide solution.
Take out the lenzes from your eyes, put them in the lens container and add the 3% hydrogen peroxide.
Leave it for 4 to 6 hours.
Step 2: Neutralise.
Neutralise the fluid manually. Use the basic Saline fluid to dillude the peroxide so there’s no trace of it left. Basically you just replace the 3% peroxide with saline. Wash the lenzes thouroughly between your fingers with saline. Let the lenzes soak in saline for a while and rinse again. Do this a few times until the peroxide is washed out.
Then your lenzes are clean and you can wear them. This was the aosept 2 step cleaning method before they started with the aosept 1 step cleaning method.
I’ve started using this method again by simply buying a bottle of 3% hydrogen peroxide (any brand) and a bottle of Saline at a pharmacy.
Here in Thailand, these are for sale almost everywhere in pharmacies and surprisingly cheap.
Saline is for sale under the name “Klean & Kare Normal Saline” in different bottle sizes.
For quite a while now I’m wearing my lenzes every day again without any problems. No red eyes, no problems.
There is only one simple thing to think about. Don’t forget to take time to wash out the peroxide manually with saline before putting the lenzes in your eyes.
Dear Frank,
Good on ya for DIY-ing it and going old school–wow! Thanks for these detailed instructions, should anyone on the road find themselves in a pinch!!
Thanks for your reply Lauren. I’ve been wearing lenzes for 30 years and had to stop wearing them because they stopped selling the cleaning fluid here (I live and work in Thailand). I’m not comfortable wearing glasses at all, so I’m glad that being able to clean my lenzes properly works really well with regular 3% hydrogen peroxide. I bought a half litre bottle here for only 25 baht today which is really cheap.
Update for those in Bangkok…
Sadly, not wonderful news.. but you can get Clear Care solution and the case from Doctor Vision, close to The Mall, Bang Kapi – here:-
http://doctorvision.net/contact-us/
Only just gone back to wearing contacts (Scleral lenses actually….) and 20+ years ago the H2O2 systems were then widespread… but now it’s all disposable lenses and far fewer of us using long term lenses needing good preservative free cleaning & disinfecting…. sigh.
That Doctor Vision optician corrects for Keratoconus and other cornea issues along with usual glasses etc and disposable soft lenses… so it seems that possibly other SPECIALIST opticians and/or Hospital based Optician departments MAY have Clear Care available… but even Doctor Vision tell me they have to import to Thailand as it’s not available from any pharmacies.
Will update if i find any other source or online option (Lazada only seems to be from Korea at a ridonculous mark up) … and a Peroxi Clear Thai Facebook page seems to have been dormant since 2016…. :-(
Thanks for the [sad] update–what a bummer that you can’t get it readily in Thailand anymore!
Further update for Thailand.
Note… if you buy a two-pack of Aosept from Amazon, it will typically come with only the one case.
So – you can be sure that ONE Aosept/ClearCare case is good for 2 months… in fact, having read around it seems it’s designed to be good for 100 uses, so 2 bottles gives a large margin.
So… start ‘saving’ up cases – i.e. do NOT throw away after only one bottle, but use for 2 or 3 months so you have some spare cases
And/Or also purchase off Ebay new unused AoSept cases on their own and bring a few with you on your travels…
Because
Once in Thailand, you can easily get 3% Hydrogen Peroxide solution from most (all?) pharmacies, which will work just fine obviously, and be neutralised just the same as the official Aosept fluid which is… 3% hydrogen peroxide (maybe with a touch of surfactants, but an occasional rub with the usual Bausch Lomb Renu or similar will work fine to loosen protein… and anyway you’ll be using Progent every month or two anyway for a proper deep protein clean… or should be.)
The usual brand is ‘SiriBuncha’ – here’s a link to an image of the 450ml bottle
https://www.honestdocs.co/system/image_attachments/images/000/002/999/medium/siribuncha-hydrogen-peroxide-450cc-front.jpg
or you can go to their website here for pics
https://www.siribuncha.com/product-page/ไฮโดรเย-นเปอร-ออกไซด-hydrogen-peroxide
And there you go… maybe bring one bottle of your nice squeezy Aosept/ClearCare as it’s easier to use than the open mouth bottle… just pull off the red cap from it and you can refill with the (way, way cheaper) Siribuncha H2O2.
Just wanted to give a quick update. On my way to Thailand a couple months ago I had an overnight layover in Seoul. Two metro stops from the airport (Unseo) there is a hotel called the Golden Tulip. I found Aosept at the Lotte Mart across the street from the hotel. I forget which floor but I just randomly came across it in this eyeglass shop.
Yes I found it in a Tokyo drugstore in January 2019. Forgot the name of the store but it’s a chain drugstore found everywhere.
Thanks for updating.
In contrast, I come from Asia. After arriving U.S. where I cannot easily get AVIZOR Ever Clean, my former solution for cleaning, my eye doctor told me that Alcon – AO Sept Plus is really useful. However, I tried so many ways but still cannot find AO Sept! Thanks to the internet and Artificial Intelligence, google tried to say that AO Sept Plus equals to Clear Care. Therefore, in need of finding evidence to prove they are actually equal, I search for key words and find your blog :)
All in all, I hope to make it clear –
If you are traveling in China, I believe you can find AO Sept almost anywhere. Even if you cannot find the solution in drug stores,, thanks to TaoBao, which is a website like Amazon, you can buy this “magic juice” online and wait for only several days of delivering.
Bangkok update: I scoured MBK and no Clear Care or Aosept anywhere.
If you can’t find something at MBK, it probably means it doesn’t exist in the Kingdom.
Lance – see my post above, it is available at Doctor Vision near The Mall Bangkapi… call them first to make sure they have it in stock as they have to import it directly for their own customers.
http://doctorvision.net/contact-us/ติดต่อเราtest/
Another Thailand update – always worth checking on Lazada.co.th…
There’s Aosept available now here (comes with the newer blue topped case):-
https://www.lazada.co.th/products/i521046252-s927152330.html?urlFlag=true&mp=1
Mexico Update: Truly hard to find and not available except online. Mercadolibre .com is where I found mine after attempting to be satisfied with the local pharmacy brands. No go! There is really nothing like AOsept plus or Clear Care plus for my eyes. I couldn’t find it at Costco either, or Amazon Mx.
Oh man, thanks for the update. I’m sorry it’s been so difficult to find in Mexico!
Bali Update: Found in Yava Optical shop in Canggu! Only been here for a year before I found it -so exciting!
That’s fantastic!! Thank you for updating us!!!
You can find AOSept in most pharmacy chains in Israel, in case it helps! (I imported ClearCare for a year before I realized…)
Hi Lauren
I have heard AOSept makes the lens feel fresh, as if one is wearing a fresh pair of lens every morning. I have one of my MBA batchmate vouch for it. AOSept was available in LV Prasad Eye Institute Hyderabad India prior to COVID lockdown. With COVID outbreak what I heard is AOSept production was disrupted creating shortage in market. I just hope they get it back on shelves soon. It will contact lens users a lot.
Hi Lauren, I’m a big fans of Ao Sept since day 1 wearing contact lens.
For Malaysia, you can easily get it from AA pharmacy which has plenty of branches across the country, as well as big pharmacy and guardian. I usually store 3-4 bottles for me at home.
Any in Cambodia-phonem penh?