Rituals · I-Care Eye Drops
Two drops, twice a day.
How to use I-Care Eye Drops, and how to look after the bottle. The dosage is the easy part — what decides whether a bottle of eye drops does its job is the handful of small habits around it. Every product gets its own page here.
- Dosage
- Two drops, both eyes, twice daily
- Use
- External only, never injected
- Once opened
- One month, then discard
This page covers
- I-Care Eye Drops10ml
- Migraine Oil In development
- Liver Syrup In development
The ritual
How to put in a drop properly.
- In short
Two drops in both eyes, twice a day, or as directed by a physician. Wash your hands first, do not let the dropper touch anything, close the eye gently rather than blinking, and close the cap tightly afterwards. Use the bottle within one month of opening it.
Six steps, and the fourth is the one people skip
- Wash your handsAnd dry them. Everything that reaches your eye reaches it via your fingers.
- Tilt your head backPull the lower lid down gently to make a small pocket. That pocket is where the drop is supposed to land, not the surface of the eye.
- Do not let the dropper touch anythingNot your eye, not your lashes, not your fingertip, not the rim of the sink. This is the single most important habit with any multi-dose bottle, and it is the one almost everybody gets wrong.
- Close the eye, do not blinkBlinking hard pumps most of the drop straight out onto your cheek. Close gently and stay there for a few seconds.
- Wipe what runs onto the skinWith a clean tissue, once, and throw it away.
- Close the cap tightlyStraight away, and put the bottle somewhere cool and dry rather than back on the desk in the sun.
When should I use it?
Twice a day, and consistency matters more than the exact hour. Most people find morning and the end of the working day the easiest pair to keep to — the second dose lands when screen-tired eyes are at their worst.
There is no benefit to exceeding the label dosage. If twice a day is not enough, that is a question for a clinician rather than a reason to use more.
What should it feel like?
A brief cooling sensation is normal, and it is what the camphor, the rose and the two sandalwoods are there for. It usually settles within a few seconds.
Sharp stinging, burning that does not subside, redness that worsens, or any change in vision is not normal. Stop, and see an ophthalmologist or a qualified Ayurvedic physician. Take the carton with you — the full composition is printed on it.
Looking after the bottle
The month after you open it.
An eye preparation is not the same product four weeks after the seal comes off. These are the rules on the carton, and the reasons behind them.
Five rules for the bottle
- One month from openingThen discard it, even if there is liquid left. The expiry on the carton applies to a sealed bottle; once the seal is broken, this is the rule that matters.
- Cool, dry, out of the sunNot the refrigerator, and not a car dashboard. A drawer or a bathroom shelf away from the window is right.
- Cap closed tightlyEvery time. A loose cap is how a dropper tip dries, and how the air in the bottle stops being the air you started with.
- One bottle, one personAn eye preparation is not shared, however well you know the person. This is not squeamishness; it is the whole reason single-user bottles exist.
- Out of reach of childrenAnd used by them only on the advice of a physician, never on the strength of a website.
Why does the dropper tip matter so much?
Because a multi-dose bottle is only as clean as the last thing its tip touched. A dropper that has brushed an eyelash, a fingertip or a basin has carried that back into the bottle, and every subsequent dose goes through it.
Nothing else in this list is worth much if this one is ignored.
Can I keep using it after a month if it looks fine?
No. “Looks fine” is not a test you can run at home, and the one-month rule exists precisely because the change is not visible.
Every order currently ships two 10ml bottles, so the second one is there for exactly this — open it when the first month is up rather than stretching a bottle to six weeks.
Beyond the bottle
Drops are not the whole answer.
What else helps tired eyes?
The ordinary things, which are unglamorous and free. Look away from the screen regularly and focus on something across the room. Blink properly — screen work roughly halves how often most people do it, and that is the mechanism behind a good deal of end-of-day dryness. Get the light right, so the screen is not the brightest thing in a dark room. Sleep.
We would rather say that on a page selling eye drops than pretend a bottle replaces any of it.
When should I see a doctor instead?
Pain, any change in vision, discharge, an injury, or discomfort that does not settle. Also anything that has been going on for weeks rather than days.
A preparation for dryness is a preparation for dryness. It does not diagnose anything, and it is not a substitute for anything you have been prescribed.