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Find the Perfect Eye Cream
By Bryan Barron, Cosmetics Cop Team Contributor
Almost every cosmetics company you can think of sells at least one eye cream and many sell more than a dozen, yet no one needs a product specifically labeled as an eye cream! The cosmetics industry has done an outstanding job convincing women that eye creams are essential to eliminate everything from wrinkles to sagging skin, dark circles, and puffiness around the eye. We're here to tell you to call off the search! It is wasting your time and money.
Here’s why:
* There is no research proving that the skin around the eye area needs something different from skin elsewhere on the face. If the skin in the eye area is dry and the skin on your face is dry, then the skin in both areas needs the same thing (likewise for oily areas).
* I hate to tell you this, but there are no cosmetic ingredients that change dark circles under the eye or get rid of sagging, puffy eyes, or crow’s-feet. (Crow’s-feet show up on the face as well as in the eye area, which makes all the theories about eye creams even more foolish.)
• What you get when you buy an eye cream is a small amount of product (often half the size of a face product) that is twice as expensive.
* Eye creams are often sold as being gentle and fragrance-free, so they’re "safe for the delicate eye area." In essence, you are being told that the eye area should get the good ingredients and the face should get the not-so-good ones. On the contrary, the entire face should be treated gently and not be exposed to irritating ingredients. More to the point, most eye creams DO contain fragrance and DO contain coloring agents, both of which are bad for skin!
* You have probably heard that an eye cream needs to be lighter weight because the eye-area skin is thinner, but most eye creams are anything but lighter; they usually are thick creams, whereas face products almost always are lighter in texture. Regardless, thick or thin, when skin is dry it needs emollients and skin-repairing ingredients to prevent moisture loss and to restore a smooth, supple feel.
* Most eye creams are packaged in jars, which is a problem because as soon as you open the jar, the beneficial ingredients (assuming there are some in the formula) begin to deteriorate due to light and air exposure. It’s also unsanitary to dip your fingers into a jar every day!
* No one in the cosmetics industry (ingredient manufacturers, salespeople, or cosmetic chemists) has ever identified exactly what ingredients or combination of ingredients the eye area needs that the face doesn’t need as well, especially when it comes to dry skin, wrinkles, puffy eyes, or sagging skin - and we’ve asked hundreds of people over the years!
* If a "face" product is well formulated for dry skin and fighting wrinkles, you can use it anywhere on your face and beyond.
There are many myths about why you need eye creams, but that is just what they are: myths. Day after day, week after week, year after year we constantly hear, “I’ve tried everything to get rid of [insert eye-area concern here],” and yet the problem persists. Of course it persists; these products cannot work as claimed, and you’re being misled and wasting your money, time and time again. I’m not saying you don’t need a brilliantly formulated moisturizer for use around the eye area; it just doesn’t need to be labeled an eye cream and have a higher price tag than a similarly formulated face product.
We suspect many of you won’t believe us and will continue to seek out and use an eye cream just in case, but before you do, stop and compare the ingredient list of the eye cream you’re considering (or are currently using) with its counterpart facial moisturizer. You will be shocked at how similar they are, which further supports my point—eye creams are not necessary. They’re a whim of the cosmetics industry designed to play on consumers’ fears about the one area where signs of aging are the most pronounced.
The question to ask yourself: If you’re using a well-formulated facial moisturizer and/or serum, what’s stopping you from using it around your eyes, too?
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