Inter Lenses ships to the United States and doesn’t require you to have a prescription.
If you have a contact lenses prescription that’s nearly or more than one year old, need contacts soon, and don’t plan to get a new prescription just yet, you’ve probably found out that overseas retailers that you once bought contacts from without a prescription (mainly from the UK) are no longer shipping to the United States.
Browsing Reddit threads from Redditors going through a similar predicament and I came across Inter lenses (their site here.) Based in Lisboa, Portugal, Inter lenses are a contact lens seller that, as of this blog post, proudly boasts you can order contacts without a prescription!
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Interlenses even has a page dedicated for their U.S. customers (linked here), so that’s reassuring.
I just needed one month’s supply of Acuvue Vita contacts so I ordered two boxes (one for each eye) and placed my order.
(1) month supply came out to $25.62 a box and shipping and handling was just $5.72.
The grand total was $56.96.
Compare that price to my usual site, AC Lens, a 6-pack of Acuvue Vita’s are for 56.99. Costco’s not that much cheaper at $49.87 a box.
Inter Lenses is way cheaper!
Shipping from Portugal, I expected to wait more than a week.
Two weeks later, my contacts finally arrived.
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The shipping address wasn’t from Lisboa but was from a private address in Charneca, about a half hour away which I thought is worth noting.
Regardless, my contacts came wrapped in a bubble envelope placed in the shipping envelope.
My two boxes of Acuvue Vita lenses came intact, undamaged, and in the correct prescription.
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If you’re like me and are wondering why your Johnson & Johnson contact lenses are now sealed in a light purple packaging, concerned, I contacted Johnson & Johnson and they confirmed they’ve changed the color of their seal from the white and blue you’re used to, to a light purple.
So, yes, for the time being (and hopefully for a long time to come) you can order contacts from Inter Lenses without a prescription, and they’ll ship it to the United States, no problem.
The only con is that it’s shipping from 4,000+ miles away so, it’s going to take longer than a week to get to you.
Other than that, feel confident ordering your contacts from Inter Lenses!