STORE
LANGUAGE
Currency
COMING SOON
Your Cart
Your shopping cart is empty!
Top Brands
Any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with this website shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of UAE. United Arab of Emirates is our country of domicile. If you make a payment for our products or services on our website, the details you are asked to submit will be provided directly to our payment provider via a secured connection. The cardholder must retain a copy of transaction records and merchant policies and rules. We accept payments online using Visa and MasterCard credit/debit cards. souKare reserves the right to terminate access to the website, for maintenance or other purposes. We make every effort to ensure that the right product description and prices are reflected on our website. In case of an error, we reserve the right to cancel / not process an order. Limitation of liability: souKare makes every effort to ensure safety and security of your information. As 100% security can not be guaranteed over the internet, you acknowledge and agree that you assume full responsibility for the use of this site, for purchases made on it, data transferred through it and any communication made through it.
KSA: When you create an account with us, your information is stored with OpenCart that powers our website. OpenCart implements very rigid procedures to safeguard all personal information and they will never share your personal information with third parties without your consent. At souKare, we never share information with third parties. Your account information is only used to provide you with better service on our website. It is never distributed or shared by souKare. Any credit/debit cards details and personally identifiable information will not be stored, sold, shared, rented or leased to any third parties. The Website Policies and Terms & Conditions may be changed or updated occasionally to meet certain requirements and standards. Customers are therefore encouraged to frequently visit these sections in order stay up to date with the conditions of the website. Modifications will be effective on the day they are posted. Some advertisements on soukare.com are selected and delivered by third parties, such as ad networks, advertising agencies, advertisers, and audience segment providers. These third parties may collect information about you and your online activities, either on the site or on other websites, through cookies, web beacons, and other technologies in an effort to understand your interests and deliver to you advertisements that are tailored to your interests. Please remember that we do not have access to, or control over, the information these third parties may collect. The information practices of these third parties are not covered by this privacy policy.
We make every effort to ensure that our products are delivered to our customers in perfect condition. For the same reason, we deliver the products ourselves within Dubai, and have partnered with leading well-established courier companies for deliveries beyond Dubai. We therefore are not able to exchange items, once they have been opened. In the unlikely scenario that the products have a manufacturing defect, we will exchange the item with an exact same one.
Contact lenses might seem like a pretty recent invention, right?
Yes, it’s true that they’ve only become popular in recent decades, but you’ll be surprised to learn that Leonardo da Vinci first sketched the concept of contact lenses way back in 1508! His version involved submerging one’s head in a glass bowl of water, so it definitely needed work, but let’s explore the journey of how we got from there to the breathable silicone hydrogel contact lenses of today.
Contact Spectacles: Contacts Made Of Glass
Over three centuries later, in 1827, Sir John Herschel came up with the idea of making a mold of a person’s cornea (the outer portion of the eye) in order to correct vision. However, the technology for making glass lenses thin enough to fit in the eye didn’t come along until 1888, when Adolf Fick was finally able to construct the first contact lens.
So why aren’t there fewer pairs of spectacles in old black-and-white photos if contacts were invented in the 1880s? Well, these prototype contact lenses weren’t exactly comfortable. They covered the entire front of the eye and allowed no oxygen to reach the cornea, so it only took a few hours before they became too painful to wear.
Hard Lenses: The Plastic Revolution
Contact lenses might never have become practical enough to appeal to glasses-wearers if it hadn’t been for the invention of plastic, which allowed lenses to be made lighter and more durable. Another key component was being able to successfully make molds of patients’ eyes, as Herschel had theorized. Dr. Dallos and Istvan Komàromy of Hungary perfected a method of doing just that.
However, these lenses still covered the entire eye. It wasn’t until 1948 when an English optical technician discovered that the lenses still worked if they covered a much smaller surface area that contacts began to resemble the corneal lenses we’re used to today. A few more improvements quickly followed, making hard lenses very thin, shaped to the eye, and more comfortable.
Soft Lenses: Sight For Sore Eyes
Over the next couple of decades, hydrogels (more flexible plastics) were developed and by 1971, the first soft contact lenses gained FDA approval and hit the market. Hard lenses couldn’t beat soft lenses for comfort. Although the risk of infection is increased with lenses that touch the eye, the introduction of disposable lenses reduced this risk as well.
Soft lens technology has improved in the nearly fifty years since 1971, always seeking to improve breathability, safety, and comfort levels. The biggest recent breakthrough was silicone hydrogels, which are almost 100 percent breathable.