Most eye creams are far too gentle to be effective. The eye comprised of a connective tissue called areolar tissue, which connects other tissues in the body. It’s flexible and usually less dense than most other parts of the skin. It’s also highly susceptible to damage because it has few blood vessels and nerve endings, so you don’t always feel when you’re accidentally rubbing your eye cream on too hard.
Good eye care is effective for more than just dark circles and wrinkles.
Eye cream is a must if you want to look bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, but there are plenty of other things you can do to give your under-eye area a boost.
Hydrate: Drink lots of water for healthy skin. When the body doesn’t get enough water, it pulls fluids from the skin, which can lead to dehydration, dullness and puffiness. Also make sure that you’re getting enough sleep — this will not only help prevent dark circles, but can also keep your skin looking young and refreshed.
Exfoliate: Try gently exfoliating the delicate under-eye area once or twice a week with an alcohol-free toner or exfoliating pads made with glycolic acid or fruit enzymes. Exfoliation helps remove dead skin cells from the surface of the skin, leaving it looking fresh and glowing while also helping stimulate collagen synthesis in the deeper layers of the dermis (making your wrinkles appear less pronounced).
Focus on antioxidants: Antioxidants work against free radicals that damage our DNA as we age. Free radicals are produced by environmental stressors such as UV light exposure and pollution as well as internal stressors like smoking and alcohol consumption. Protecting your dermal cells against free radical damage will help keep them healthy — if they’re healthy they’ll be able to regenerate themselves more effectively so they’ll bounce back faster when they start showing signs of wear and tear (like those pesky little wrinkles around your eyes). One antioxidant in particular that’s great for fighting aging is vitamin A (also known as retinol). You can take this vitamin orally in supplement form or apply it topically using products like retinoid serums or eye creams containing retinol derivatives like retinyl palmitate (which is gentler than pure retinol).
Your skin changes as you age, so does your skincare routine.
As one gets older, the eye skin area becomes thinner. That’s because it’s naturally more delicate than skin on the rest of the face. This causes it to lose elasticity, become drier, and be more prone to damage. For these reasons, as you get older, you should use a special eye cream every day as part of your skin care routine. The cream will help keep the skin in this area hydrated and healthy.
If you’re not seeing results with eye cream, take a look at droopy eyelids.
If you’re not seeing the results with eye cream that you’d hoped for, it might be because of your eyelids. “In the process of aging, skin on the eyelids gets thinner, drier and more easily damaged,” said Dr. Bryan A. Barrow of Barrow Neurological Institute in Arizona.
As you age, the skin around your eyes gets thinner, too—this is why people often get dark under-eye circles as they get older. If your eyelid skin is thin enough to let blood vessels underneath show through as dark circles that means it’s also thin enough to let fine lines form more quickly than on thicker areas of skin. There are a few things you can do about this: wearing SPF daily will help prevent further damage caused by UV rays from the sun; drinking plenty of water will keep your whole body hydrated; and using moisturizing eye creams or gels can firm up sagging eyelids so they won’t show signs of thinning quite as quickly.
If you want to see eye-opening results with an anti-aging serum made specifically for eyes and eyelids, give Facial Massage Jade Roller | Relaxing & De-stressing by Neutriherb a try. The face roller stimulates the lymphatic system and blood circulation, and helps maximize the absorption of facial oil, serum, cream or moisturizer.
