Eye Creams
Most of us women believe eye-creams are specially formulated for the skin around the eye area. We “think” an eye cream is a worthwhile indulgence.
The skin beneath your eyes has no fatty layer, few oil glands, and not much support structure, which is why it wrinkles so easily and needs special care. The eye area does tend to be more prone to allergic or sensitizing reactions and often shows wrinkles and lines before other areas of the face.
Listen up: As it turns out, product formulations for eye creams DO NOT differ from those for face products. Yes! That’s correct!
There is NO evidence, research, or documentation validating the claim that eye creams have special formulations setting them apart from other anti-wrinkle and anti-aging creams for the face.
Next time take a look at the ingredients label of any eye-cream and an anti-wrinkle to see that they don’t differ except for the price and the tiny containers the eye creams come in.
Once again, eye creams are a whim of the fat cat cosmetics industry designed to evoke the sale of two products when only one is needed.
The only time you “might” want to use a different product around the eyes is if the skin there happens to be different from the skin on the rest of the face.
For example, if your face is normal to oily and doesn’t require a moisturizer except occasionally on the cheeks or around the eyes, then an emollient, well-formulated moisturizer of any kind will work beautifully… and I highly recommend LifeCell since it takes care a lot of issues in one bottle.
Ironically, one of the drawbacks of many so-called eye creams is that they rarely contain sunscreen. For daytime, that makes most eye creams a serious problem for the health of skin. You could believe that you were doing something special for your eyes, but you would actually be putting them at risk of sun damage and wrinkling by using an eye cream without applying sunscreen.
This is another example of the way cosmetics marketing and misleading information can waste your money and hurt your skin. I suggest you pat a good anti-aging cream like LifeCell, under the eye area lightly with your fourth finger, which exerts the least amount of pressure.
Cheers to beautiful eyes,
