Crizal Anti-Reflective Coating
Crizal by Essilor is the world's most prescribed anti-reflective coating. Three designs: Alize, Avance with Scotchgard, and Sapphire — each offering progressively enhanced performance.
What Anti-Reflective Coating Does
Uncoated lenses reflect 8–10% of incoming light. This creates ghost images, haloes around lights, and lens reflections visible to others. Anti-reflective (AR) coating reduces surface reflections to under 0.5%, allowing nearly all light to pass through for clearer vision and invisible lenses.
The Crizal Family
Crizal Alizé — $74.95
Entry-level Crizal. Reduces reflections, repels water and dust, easier to clean than standard AR coatings. A significant upgrade from basic AR.
Crizal Avance with Scotchgard — $94.95
Mid-level Crizal with 3M Scotchgard stain protection. Repels water, oil, and smudges more effectively than Alizé. The coating lasts longer and is more resistant to micro-abrasions.
Crizal Sapphire — $164.95
Crizal's top-tier coating. Six-sided anti-reflection reduces reflections from all angles, including from behind the wearer — eliminating the "bulb reflection" visible on most AR coatings when lit from behind. Maximum scratch resistance and easiest cleaning of the Crizal line.
Blue Light Protection
All Crizal Sapphire lenses include blue light protection (filters harmful short-wavelength light from screens). Available as an add-on to Alizé and Avance.
Common Questions
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