Why Do We Need Eye Creams
Collagen helps maintain skin s elasticity.
Why do we need eye creams. Fine lines and wrinkles come from both sun damage and your skin making less collagen as you age. Eye creams are often thicker than moisturizers but there s no scientific reason why you would need this. It s actually thinner and more sensitive than the rest of your skin. The skin tissue around the eye is at its thinnest so you cannot have too many active ingredients.
Eye creams are thicker and more nourishing than the usual skincare lotion or moisturizer because the skin under our eyes needs special care. The main goal of an eye cream aside from brightening the eye area and reducing the look of fine lines nazarian said is to deliver the same ingredients you would use on the other parts of the face but at doses that are gentle enough to not trigger irritation in a delicate area of the body. To that end eye creams are typically designed to be lighter in texture than facial moisturizers adds dermatologist dr. Eye skin is tissue thin dry and folds on itself factors that increase absorption and therefore sensitivity says heidi waldorf md a new york based derm.
Why a separate cream. It is more prone to show signs of aging fatigue and it s also more prone to dryness or irritation. Eye creams can address some of these issues. Since the eye area has very few oil glands the face moisturizer won t be enough she explains that because the skin under the eyes is so thin your eye creams should have firming or thickening ingredients such as peptides in them but these ingredients aren t necessarily accepted well by the rest of the face.
To start lets discuss the special skin around your eyes. That certain anti aging eye treatments can indeed help improve under eye smoothness and reduce the depth of larger wrinkles. The thickness doesn t actually add anything to the quality of the product. As a result it needs to be treated even more delicately both in what types of skin care products are used around the eyes as well as how creams and serums are applied.
Kerrin birchenough an esthetician and makeup artist in portland. The skin around our eyes is thinner more sensitive and more fragile and reacts faster to trouble.