Anti Aging Eye Cream
A Daily Must For Youthful Skin

To care for the skin around the eyes and prevent aging skin, lines and wrinkles an anti aging eye cream should be part of the daily beauty routine.

An eye cream can also help to reduce crows feet, frown lines and firm and tighten the skin for a youthful appearance.

Our eyes are one of the most important features of our face. The skin around the eye area shows the first signs of aging due to poor diet, toxicity, a lack of sleep, stress and environmental factors like sun exposure.

With age our hormone levels change (especially in women). Lower levels of oestrogen cause dry skin and less skin elasticity which causes saggy wrinkly skin. A natural supplement can help combat that.

Our eyes also displaying our emotions like happiness, sadness or anger. Together these factors contributing to premature aging, saggy skin, lines and wrinkles, puffy eyes and dark circles.

The skin around the eyes is about 10 times thinner than on the rest of the face. It also has less oil glands which causes a lack of natural moisture in the skin. Therefore it needs special attention and a separate anti aging eye cream.

Your normal facial moisturiser could be too oily and heavy for the delicate eye area. This can cause milia, those white bumps under the skin.

Best Anti Aging Eye Cream

CEW Beauty Award Winner 2007:

Avon ANEW CLINICAL Eye Lift - New & Improved!

CEW Beauty Award Entries 2008:

• AVEENO POSITIVELY AGELESS Eye Serum
• AVON ANEW Alternative Eye
• Be Fine Food Skin Care Eye Blossom Miracle Eye Serum
• Garnier Nutritioniste Ultra-Lift Anti-Wrinkle Firming Eye Cream
• La Roche-Posay Redermic Eyes
• L'Oreal Paris Advanced Revitalift Double Eye Lift
• Lumene Lifting Time Freeze Instantly Firming Eye Cream
• Neutrogena Illuminating Eye Reviver
• Olay Regenerist Eye Derma-Pod Anti-Aging Triple Response System
• Unilever - Dove Dove pro-age Eye Treatment with SPF 8



Winner:

Olay Regeneriste Derma-Pod Anti-Aging Triple Response System

• CHANEL Sublimage Eye Essential Regenerating Eye Cream
• Christian Dior Capture Totale Multi-Perfection Eye Treatment
• Clinique All About Eyes Rich
• Colorescience Pep Up Pen
• Elizabeth Arden INTERVENE EYE Pause and Effect Moisture Eye Cream
• Estee Lauder Future Perfect Anti-Wrinkle Radiance Eye Cream
• Exuviance Intensive Eye Treatment Pads
• Givenchy No Surgetics - Plasti Sculpt-Lifting Gel - Eye De-Puffer
• Guerlain ORCHIDEE IMPERIALE EYE & LIP CREAM
• ICS Skin Therapie by Dr. Cap Lesesne Eye Therapie
• Kate Somerville Line Release Under Eye Repair
• Kiehl's Since 1851 Line-Reducing Eye-Brightening Concentrate
• La Prairie Skin Caviar Luxe Eye Lift Cream
• Lancome Secret De Vie Eye Ultimate Cellular Reviving Eye Creme
• L'Occitane en Provence Immortelle Very Precious Eye Serum
• MD Skincare(R) by Dr. Dennis Gross Hydra-Pure(R) Firming Eye Cream



Winner:

Estee Lauder Future Perfect Anti Wrinkle Radiance Eye Cream

Best Anti Aging Eye Cream Ingedients

For the sensitive skin around the eyes I recommend only gentle natural ingredients that do not irritate the eyes or the skin:

• Glycolic acid to exfoliate and reduce fine lines and wrinkles
• Aloe Vera, rich in amino acids and vitamins to deeply moisturise and balance the skins ph
• Camomile for soothing and antioxidant properties
• Echinacea to soothe and firm the skin
• Ginkgo extract for maintaining youthful skin
• Glycine, an amino acid essential for Collagen production
• MMP Inhibitors to maintain firm and elastic skin and slow down the signs of aging
• Proline, an amino acid to provide firmness and elasticity
• Liquorice to treat puffy eyes and soothe
• Grapeseed for powerful antioxidant defence
• Soy protein, rich in isoflavonols, antioxidant, brightening and collagen repairing
• Green Tea , moisturising, soothing and antioxidant
• Q10 to repair cell tissue and antioxidant
• Cucumber tightens and firms
• Mulberry bark brightens pigmentation spots

Anti Aging Eye Cream or Eye Gel?

Cream or Gel? Which one is best? In general, gels are more for younger skins while creams are best for mature skin types.

Eye gels are often used to reduce puffyness and tired eyes due to their cooling effect. Eye creams contain emollients that nourish and moisten the skin and plump up fine lines.

I prefer light eye fluids or something that is in between gel and cream. They won't clog the pores and cause blackheads or millia. Too oily creams can sometimes run into the eyes and cause irritation and watery eyes. Fluids are also absorbed nicely by the skin without leaving much residue on the skin surface which makes the make-up application much easier!

Other Anti Aging Eye Cream Tips

Look out for products which are Ophthalmologist tested to make sure the anti aging eye cream is not harmful to your eye.

It should be nourishing yet lightweight. Too much oil in the cream could cause milia.

Ideally an anti aging eye cream will have firming and light-diffusing ingredient as well as other antiaging technology.

Before using a new anti aging eye cream, patchtest on the outer area below your eyes to see if you react to any of the ingredients. Doing this can prevent a nasty allergic reaction.

Daniela's 15 Tips For Beautiful Eyes

1. Detox, if you have puffy eyes or dark circles its probably a sign of a toxic body.
2. Drink plenty of water, good for health all over, it helps to flush out those toxins and for a healthy hydrated skin (from the inside)
3. Have lots of good fats in your diet. The Essential Fatty Acids make your skin soft and supple and nourish from the inside
4. Get plenty of sleep. A lack of sleep shows in red, tired eyes and dark circles.
5. Don't sleep on your face. Often easier said than done, if you can't like me, use a satin pillow. The satin helps against creasing of the skin while you sleep!
6. Wear sunglasses to prevent squinting
7. Use a light formulated, but high in SPF Sunblock
8. Take Nutritional Supplements for maintaining healthy eyes, Bilberry and Carotenoids help to keep our eyesight healthy so we dont have to strain and squint.
9. A Antiaging Nutritional Supplement will help to maintain healthy youthful skin from the inside
10. Avoid rubbing your eyes vigourously
11. Use only very gentle cleansers and exfoliants around the eyes
12. Cigarette Smoke inhibits blood flow and the oxygen transport to the tiny little capillaries and therefore causes premature lines and wrinkles.
13. Too much alcohol is dehydrating you and causes lines, wrinkles also puffiness and dark circles
14. Try not to frown. It can become a habit without you even realising it. Continuously frowning causes the muscles between your eyes to get tight. Deep frownlines are the result.
15. Start using your anti aging eye cream at an early age if possible - prevention is better than treatment

Would you like to know which anti aging eye cream I would recommend for your skin? Ask me for Beauty Advice

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