The Best Eye Cream of 2016

Wrinkles, fine lines, hyper pigmented skin, sun spots — all but ordinary marks of skin that’s succumbing to the physiological and environmental causes of skin aging. As aging happens to your skin, skin around your eyes are being impacted with more intensity. Initially, not everyone will need an eye cream but, as time passes, sooner or later, everybody will need one.

Is an eye cream worth the investment? Considering it for skin aging prevention purposes, every dollar will be well spent.

What makes up 2016’s Best Eye Cream?

An eye cream provides intensified nourishment, protection and regeneration on skin around your eyes, and provide the nourishment required to deliver these benefits at much more concentrated amounts than what is being provided for the rest of your face.

The justifications are simple. First, skin around your eyes are padded with a very thin layer of fat that makes this area highly susceptible to damage caused by the slightest impact, such as habitually rubbing your eyes. Second, compared to elsewhere on your face, oil glands are rare around your eyes, often leaving the area dry. Third, thin blood vessels line the under side of your skin which, because of the very thin skin, make your skin appear darker when viewed from the surface. These very tiny capilliaries are also highly prone to breakage and damage, allowing fluids, including blood, to leak beneath the skin under your eyes, leaving you with puffy, darkened eye bags.

An eye cream then, must function on top of your regular day time anti-aging cream, particularly to address the unique circumstances of skin around your eyes. Below are some of the benefits of using finely formulated eye creams:

1. Contains ingredients that deeply moisturize skin and helps keep it hydrated over long periods of time

2. Able to influence the health of thin, fragile nerves underneath so as to strengthen these and make these less vulnerable to breakage and leaks

3. Infused with antioxidants to help protect skin around the eyes from sustaining more damages and further developing signs of skin aging

4. Contains peptides that support improvement of skin cell coordination, particularly to improve the production of skin precursors like collagen and facilitate the speedier turnover of skin

It isn’t easy to find an eye cream that satisfies all these criteria but, like a miracle, your answered prayers are packed in every jar of the La Mer Eye Cream from Esteé Lauder. The blend that results is what the company has been calling a “Miracle Broth”. Fused with light and sound waves, it absorbs these energies and locks these up in the cream, activating its components to make it a potent treatment for signs of aging on skin around your eyes. This is what makes this cream expensive at US$200 per jar.

This product contains the following ingredients: Water, Seaweed (Algae) Extract, Shea Butter, Butylene Glycol, Polyethylene, Hydrogenated Polyisobutene, Dimethicone, Cetyl Esters, Cetearyl Alcohol, Malachite, Polybutene, Isostearyl Neopentanoate, Silica, Trisiloxane, Yeast Extract, Caffeine, Cholesterol, Ascophyllum Nodosum Extract, Asparagopsis Armata Extract, Gelidium Cartilagineum Extract, Saccharomyces Lysate Extract, Sesame Seed Oil, Eucalyptus Leaf Oil, Sesame Seed, Alfalfa Seed Powder, Sunflower Seedcake, Sweet Almond Seed Meal, Sodium Gluconate, Potassium Gluconate, Copper Gluconate, Calcium Gluconate, Magnesium Gluconate, Zinc Gluconate, Tocopheryl Succinate, Niacin, St. Paul’s Wort Extract, Whey Protein, Sucrose, Palm Oil, Methyl Glucose Sesquistearate, Cetearyl Glucoside, Glycerin, Aminomethyl Propanol, Glyceryl Distearate, Tetraacetylphytosphingosine, Linoleic Acid, Sorbitol, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Steareth-10, Magnesium Ascorbyl Phosphate, Vinyl Dimethicone/Methicone Silsesquioxane Crosspolymer, Sodium Hyaluronate, Tocotrienols, Hexylene Glycol, Phytosphingosine, Isododecane, Tocopherol, Squalane, Propylene Glycol Dioctanoate, Phytosterols, Trimethylsiloxysilicate, Caprylyl Glycol, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Carbomer, Fragrance, Tourmaline, Disodium EDTA, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Phenoxyethanol, Linalool, Limonene, Benzyl Salicylate, Blue 1, Yellow 5, Titanium Dioxide, Green 5.

The hyaluronic acid content of this eye cream acts like a magnet that draws moisture to the eye area and holds moisture there. Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 has the capability to relax the muscles underneath so that the skin also does not wrinkle from repeated facial expressions. Vitamin C, Vitamin E and antioxidants from botanicals protect the skin. Potassium Gluconate improves nerve health and blood circulation.

La Mer Eye Cream ideally must be applied twice daily for best results. Wear this product with sunscreen during the day, and complement with a separate tube of retinol or tretinoin for night time application.

Conclusion

Collecting large volumes of anti-aging products won’t get you anywhere near your goals for subscribing to anti-aging skincare but, careful research and product evaluation will. Read the labels and do your homework.