To provide a cleaning and preserving container for contact lenses which is good in portability for its convenient size and is low in expenses and costs for the simplicity in its structure and a simple cleaning method using this container.

This cleaning and preserving container 1 for contact lenses consists of pads 2, a framework 3 and a cap 4 and is constituted as a container by holding the lenses in-between and fixing the peripheries of the pads by the framework and the cap. Lens housing spaces are partly apertured to be communicated with outside.