Polaroid sunglasses make life easy on the eye by reducing glare

• No need to squint in bright sunlight or in sky's white light when it's hazy
• More comfortable to see while driving, cycling, skiing or sunbathing
• Reduced risk of eye strain and headaches by protecting the eye from overwork
• See the true colours and contrasts of the world around you

What causes Glare?

Glare is concentrated light reflecting off a horizontal shiny surface, such as sand, water, snow or roads. It reduces visibility and makes it uncomfortable, painful and dangerous to carry on driving, cycling, skiing or just sunbathing.

How do sunglasses help?

Not all sunglasses do help. Some just make things look darker. Polaroid polarized sunglasses block virtually all glare. Polaroid invented polarization in the 1930s and our sunglasses became the biggest-selling sunglasses in history. Here's the blast-from-the-past physics lesson.

Light is made up of waves travelling in different directions. Vertical light is useful to the human eye; it helps us see. Horizontal light, however, simply creates glare and can be safely dispensed with. The vertically-aligned polarizing layer inside every Polaroid lens does not allow horizontal light to pass through.

With Polaroid's unsurpassable anti-glare properties, you can wear Polaroid lenses all day every day and enjoy whatever you're doing in safety and comfort.

See for yourself

Try our glarefree lens demonstrator to see how Polaroid polarized lenses make life easy on the eye