Both I and my partner wear contact lenses on an almost daily basis, so on our bathroom counter there's two lens pots at all times. I'm a little bit varying in my tastes - I try out different types of storage. I'm not sure whether I do it to try and search out the best version or just for a bit of a change!

It seems to me through my little experiments that storage is storage. There are two types that I use regularly; this, the barrel style, and a double-pot screw top style. My partner remains faithful to the barrel - he believes it's better for cleaning his lenses as the soaking solution can move around them as they sit overnight. I'm not sure how true that is - seems to me that liquid can move around a lens in a mini-pot just as well.

In practical terms, this pot ticks almost all of the boxes. It has a screw-top lid to which a cage is attached. The cage has two sides, one for each lens, and is clearly marked on one side with a heart to signify the left lens. (Someone needs to tell lens manufacturers that hearts are in the middle of your chest, not on the left side!! Bit behind the times.) Each cage holds one lens and it clicks gently into place on closure to stop your lenses jiggling around in the pot and getting mixed up between left and right. This would be a problem for me as my prescription is different in each eye!

The lid fits on quite tightly, however in truth I have experienced a little leakage from a pot that was popped into my bag. It's probably for the best to ensure that the pot it held upright when possible, as the barrel itself has a line etched onto it to show how far you should fill it with solution - when it's stood upright, the liquid will never even touch the lid when sealed, so there would never be a leakage problem. I don't think that I'll trust a barrel pot for occasions of travel etc, as too much was ruined when I experienced this leak - the lenses inside included.

One tip I'd like to pass on about differentiating between my lens tub and his is that I paint onto the white lids with nail varnish. A quick J in red or pink for me, and P for my partner in blue, and there's no chance we'll ever, ever end up wearing each other's lenses. That would be quite disgusting.