Essential Lenses

What are Essential Lenses?

Essential Lenses offers increased performance in both scratch resistance and durability. Formed of 7 layers, this anti-reflective coating is formulated to provide optimum protection from scratches whilst maintaining good lens aesthetics. This coating is ideal for wearers who demand the most durability from their lenses, or who find that their lenses become scratched often.

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Key features of Essential Lenses

SD (smudge & dust) Guard Technology

a protective layer applied to Essential coated lenses that, guards against dust particles and oil. This layer makes the lens oleophobic, preventing oil and dirt from penetrating into the lens material, thus making the lens smudge resistant. It also reduces the accumulation of frictional static charge by neutralising the lens surface, in turn reducing dust accumulation making the lenses almost dust free

ES Guard technology

ES Guard technology also has an index matching property that makes the application of Satin coatings unique to each lens index, and also provides tint stability for all materials. The coating process is carried out at a controlled temperature in a state of the art facility to achieve maximum scratch resistance properties on the lens

LQ Technology

Water droplets will quickly slide off the lens surface producing the Lotus effect thanks to the LQ Technology of Essential coated lens. With the help of LQ Technology, the contact angle increases to more than 110 degrees, ensuring excellent hydrophobic properties.

anti-reflection properties

The anti-reflection properties of Essential Lenses improve the aesthetics of the lenses, as well as the visual clarity and comfort for the wearer. Anti reflective coatings are especially recommended for use with polycarbonate and high index lenses, as the material properties can cause more reflections than regular plastic lenses.

Essential Lenses details

As well as the enhanced coating durability and UV protection from both lens surfaces, Essential Lenses provides all of the superb benefits associated with the Satin coatings range. The Enhanced Scratch Guard Technology of Satin coatings has a good adhesive property, which makes the coating hard and provides unparalleled scratch resistance when applied to the surface of the lens. The formula is flexible and created using ionic bonding to help prevent cracking and peeling of the coating. This is further enhanced in Essential Lenses to give our strongest coating to date. With an ordinary AR coated lens, coating cracks can appear due to the coating breaking down, and the molecules splitting apart from their bonds when subjected to external pressure. The bonds within the Essential Lensescoating are stronger, and more able to withstand these pressures than regular Essential Lenses.

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Ultra Protective Lenses

Exposure to UV rays from the sun causes damage to the human eye, even when wearing spectacles. Many lenses offer protection from UV rays passing through the front surface of the lens, but some may neglect the dangers posed to the eye through back surface UV reflection. Essential Lenses builds on the strengths of Satin Plus UV, providing back surface protection from reflected UV rays, and combines this UV protection technology with enhanced scratch protection and durability to give a lens that is perfect for every day wear both in and outdoors.

Essential Lenses provides excellent protection from UV light, as the coating is applied to both the front and back surface of the lens. This provides protection from both the transmission of UV rays through the front surface, and reflection of UV rays from the back surface of the lens.

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