Tear-Lac eye drops
Tear-Lac is a carefully formulated product containing 0.3% Hypromellose, also known as "artificial tears", that can provide immediate soothing relief from the discomfort of mild to moderate dry eye symptoms.
Tear-Lac is preservative and will remain sterile for three months from the time of opening, making it extremely economical.
Tear-Lac eye drops are suitable for adults and children of all age groups and can also be used during pregnancy and breast-feeding. Tear-Lac eye drops are safe to use with all types of contact lenses and so you do not need to remove your lenses before applying the drops.
The recommended dosage is one drop in each eye, three times daily, however the drops can be used more frequently if required.
Product information:
- Natural, soothing, tolerable ingredients
- Preservative-free
- User friendly bottle
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Hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (HPMC), sodium phosphate monobasic monohydrate, sodium phosphate dibasic dodecahydrate, sodium chloride, water for injections.
*All ingredients are correct to the best of our knowledge, but may be subject to change.
Key lubricants
| Hypromellose (hydroxypropylmethylcellulose) | 0.30% |
UK (including channel islands)
- £3.00 2nd class delivery (4-5 working days)
FREE FOR ORDERS OVER £35.00 - £4.00 1st class delivery (1-2 working days)
- £8.00 Special Delivery* or APC overnight* (next working day by 4pm)
*We aim to despatch orders placed before 1pm Monday to Friday the same day (excluding bank holidays). Orders placed after 1pm will leave on the next working day (so on Friday this will normally mean Monday). See full details and any restrictions on our Delivery & Shipping pages.
- ECElizabeth C.Verified BuyerRated 1 out of 5 stars9 months agoWarning - The bottle has changed
I recently bought a replacement bottle and was so disappointed to see that the dispensing bottle has changed. The easy to use, pump action bottle, quickly dispensing just the right amount has changed to a horrible, almost unusable, squeeze bottle with the smallest opening imaginable. It restricts the fluid flow to almost zero, so you squeeze harder and can’t tell if it’s coming out or how much. How this got approved by R&D at Ursapharm as a user friendly improvement I have no idea, because believe me, it’s not?
Checking to see if there were alternatives, it would appear that almost all the Hypromellose producers have changed over to this simply awful bottle and those that haven’t, are all sold out! I wonder why!!!
So I shall no longer buy TearLac and shall look elsewhere. Please pass on these comments as I can already see other users are complaining for exactly the same reason too.
Butterflies Eyecare9 months agoWe will of course pass your feedback on. It is always difficult when packaging changes. As you say a lot of products come in this type of bottle and people can work with them, but when you are used to quite a different style it takes a little adjustment .
- IGIan G.Verified ReviewerRated 1 out of 5 stars2 days agoUsed to be easy
Both of us use Tearlac,but it’s an absolute nightmare to squeeze bottle now since company changed design,how older people do it is beyond me
Butterflies Eyecare17 hours agoHello Ian
Thank you for your review.
Regarding the new ophthalmic squeeze dispensers (OSD)
The new style Novelia and Aptar dropper bottles are being adopted by eye drop manufacturers to improve drop size accuracy and reduce microbial contamination.Aptar have produced a 1 min 30s video;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAYcfDf3Q4E
Here is a 3 minute Novelia video that I found very helpful and informative;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0bDaU5EPDs
It explains why they are doing this, a cross-section of what’s going on inside the bottle and a lady demonstrating how she inserts the drops.
Otherwise (as you may already be aware of the above), it may be that an eye spray or click drop bottle such as in the Hycosan range could be a suitable alternative.
https://www.butterflies-eyecare.co.uk/collections/hycosan - KIKristina I.Verified BuyerRated 5 out of 5 stars1 week agoDry eye drops
Work well, thank you!
- MBMaureen B.Verified BuyerRated 4 out of 5 stars4 months agoUsage
Eye drops very good but ease of use for elderly hands not good previous pump action made it easy to use.
- SFSandra F.Verified BuyerRated 1 out of 5 stars10 months agoChange of container
I won’t be ordering this again unfortunately as I really like the product. The change in dispenser is unfortunate, the original dispensed the amount needed, the new container takes such a long time for the dropper to work and then it floods your face and so much is wasted. The reason I started to use tearlac originally was because of the dispenser, every other type of hypromelose I had tried flooded your face. Not sure what I will use now asI use at least one container a week.
Butterflies Eyecare10 months agoThank you for leaving a review for Tear-Lac.
The change in dispenser takes a bit longer to send the drop to the tip to improve sterility.Here is a video showing what is happening inside the tip of the bottle;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu_PXQFmqbg
These are the other options we have available, we are always happy to give advice on eye drops.
