Skin Care: Eye Skin Care

Eye Cream & Eye Gel

The eyes are surrounded by the shallowest tissue on the face. The skin underneath our eyes is very delicate. It doesn’t have much support structure and it can be damaged and wrinkled easily. Yet this delicate skin area are subjected to blinking, squinting, and rubbing on a regular basis.

The skin surrounding the eyes need to be moisturize with eye cream. Unlike regular moiturizer, eye cream are tested by ophthalmologists to ensure its safety to be use near your eyes. Also, eye cream tends to be more emollient than regular moisturizers.

Eye Cream Formulation and Benefits

Depending on what you want your eye cream to do, there are alot of eye cream to choose from. There are eye creams that are specifically designed to minimize dark circles, soften fine lines, or reduce puffiness. But you can also find eye creams  that are formulated to attack those problems at once.

The under eye area is a good place to apply high quality oil to minimize touching (oil spread smoothly and absorb easily by your skin). Your eye cream doesn’t have to be thicker than your face moisturizer, but a richer eye cream do offer better moisturizing benefit than eye gel. The texture of your eye cream is a matter of personal taste.

How to apply eye cream

• Place a bit of eye cream on your forth finger (the weakest)
• Starting at the outer corner working inward, very gently pat the cream back and forth under the eye
• Avoid putting eye cream on your upper lids before going to sleep or you will wake up with puffy eye lids

Eye Cream Tip

Eye cream can be very expensive. Before you decide on a specific brand visit the cosmetic counters and ask  for eye cream samples. This way you can have a feel for which eye cream texture you prefer and know which eye cream better satisfy your skin care needs.