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women believe that eye creams are specially formulated for
the skin around the eye area. Although the eye area does
tend to be more prone to allergic or sensitizing reactions
and often shows wrinkles before other areas of the face,
it turns out that product formulations for eye creams don't
differ from those for face products. There is no evidence,
research, or documentation validating the claim that eye
creams have special formulations setting them apart from
other facial moisturizers. It only takes a quick look at
the ingredient labels of any moisturizer or eye moisturizer
to see that they don't differ except for the price and the
tiny containers the eye creams come in. Eye creams are a
whim of the 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 indeed
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.
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 sunscreen. This is another example of the
way cosmetics marketing and misleading information can
waste your money and hurt your skin.
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