The skin around the eye is different from the rest of the skin—it’s thinner, more delicate, and has unique needs. It’s also prone to dryness, fine lines, wrinkles, dullness, dark circles, puffiness, and other signs of dehydration, tiredness, and aging. Fortunately, eye creams are specially formulated to address these issues as well as hydrate the skin in this area.
If you want to provide the customers of your skin care brand with products that target the skin around the eyes, consider adding an eye cream to your product line.
Eye Cream 101: A Guide for Beauty Brands
Understanding the ins and outs of eye cream can make all the difference. Let’s start with some of the most frequently asked questions about eye cream, helping you navigate the science behind this essential skin care staple.
What Does Eye Cream Do?
Eye creams are lightweight moisturizing products that are designed to be used on the delicate eye area. They typically contain active ingredients that target common eye issues such as dryness, puffiness, dark circles, bags, wrinkles, and fine lines and that provide all-day moisture to the skin.
When used consistently as part of a daily skin care regimen, a high-quality eye cream can help take care of this fragile area.
What Are Common Ingredients in Eye Cream?
Common ingredients in eye creams include hyaluronic acid, retinol, caffeine, peptides, antioxidants like vitamin C and vitamin E, niacinamides, and more.
Do Eye Creams Work?
Yes! Eye creams moisturize the skin around the eyes and provide a range of benefits. How effective they are at treating certain skin concerns comes down to the formulation of the specific product.
Is Eye Cream Necessary?
Eye cream is an important part of a healthy skin care routine, particularly for people who are experiencing skin concerns in the eye area. However, it’s up to each person and their dermatologist to determine if eye cream is a necessary part of their skin care routine.
Who Needs Eye Cream?
Anyone dealing with common skin care concerns around the eye, such as puffiness, dark circles, fine lines, wrinkles, or sagging skin, can benefit from an eye cream. Additionally, people looking for anti-aging skin care solutions need to incorporate an eye cream into their regimen.
Can You Use a Face Moisturizer as an Eye Cream?
While face moisturizers can technically be used to hydrate under-eye skin, these products tend to have active ingredients that can irritate the skin close to the eyes. Additionally, they are not formulated to treat concerns unique to the eye area such as puffiness and dark circles.
At What Age Should You Start Using Eye Cream?
There’s no specific recommended age to start using eye cream. Under-eye skin concerns like dark circles, fine lines, puffiness, and wrinkles can appear for people in a wide age range.
How Do You Apply Eye Cream?
Apply a small amount of eye cream to the under-eye area using a finger, starting at the innermost corner and moving outward. Do not get eye cream in the eyes themselves.
Do You Put Eye Cream on Your Eyelids?
Avoid putting eye cream on the eyelid or bottom lash line. Focus on applying eye cream to the eye socket around the eye only.
9 Benefits of Eye Cream
There are plenty of benefits of using eye cream, and each product has its own active ingredients that provide additional benefits to a skin care routine. From reducing dark circles and puffiness to hydrating the delicate under-eye skin, here are just a few reasons to add eye cream to a morning skin care routine.
1. Delivers All-Day Hydration to the Eye Area
The skin around the eye is thinner and more fragile than the rest of the skin, so it is more prone to dryness and requires a special kind of hydration. Eye creams provide all-day moisture that is both lightweight and deeply hydrating.
2. Brightens Dark Circles & Reduces Puffiness
Many eye creams target dark circles and puffiness with ingredients such as caffeine, vitamin C, and niacinamides. Consistently applying eye cream can help brighten dark under-eye circles and brighten puffy, tired-looking eyes.
3. Softens Fine Lines & Wrinkles
Since the skin in the eye area is thin and delicate, it shows signs of dryness and aging—like fine lines and wrinkles—sooner than other parts of the face. The right eye cream will help smooth out wrinkles, moisturize the skin, reduce the appearance of fine lines, and leave skin looking plumper.
4. Soothes Tired Eyes
Eye creams are available in rich, creamy formulas as well as light, non-greasy products. They are formulated to comfort the under-eye skin, with calming, nourishing ingredients that soothes tired eyes.
5. Reduces the Signs of Aging
Visible signs of aging around the eyes, like fine lines, wrinkles, and crow’s feet, can be reduced by regular application of eye cream. Eye creams with anti-aging ingredients like retinol, hyaluronic acid, and antioxidants help boost collagen production, soften wrinkles, brighten dark circles, and increase moisture.
6. Helps with Under-Eye Bags
Eye creams with ingredients like retinol or caffeine can reduce the appearance of bags under the eye area. Additional active ingredients can also help diminish expression lines and eye bags, such as antioxidants that protect against environmental aggressors and peptides that improve elasticity.
7. Tightens & Firms Up Skin Around Eyes
The skin around the eye area tends to loosen up as people age thanks to reduced elasticity. Eye creams not only lock in moisture but also have ingredients that help tighten and firm up the skin in this delicate area.
8. Prepares Skin for Makeup
To apply makeup evenly and keep it looking good all day, you have to start with a smooth canvas. Eye creams smooth the skin around the eye, making it easier to keep makeup on and preventing creasing throughout the day.
9. Protects Skin from the Elements
Because the skin around the eye is delicate and thin, it is more prone to the elements, air contaminants, and damage from the sun. Eye creams will help protect the sensitive eye area and create a barrier between the skin and various external elements.
How to Incorporate Eye Cream into a Skin Care Routine
Adding an eye cream into a morning skin care routine is easy. Simply apply the eye cream of choice before applying moisturizer:
- Cleanser
- Toner
- Serum
- Eye cream
- Moisturizer
- Sunscreen
Consistency is key; to take full advantage of everything eye creams have to offer, apply it every morning.
5 Eye Creams to Elevate Your Skin Care Brand
Adding an eye cream product to your private label skin care line is easy! Choose from one of our luxurious eye creams to elevate your brand and offer transformative skin care to your customers.
1. Corrective Eye Cream
Our corrective eye cream helps brighten skin, diminishes under-eye circles, and increases collagen. This flower-full serum will leave skin around the eye area soft, hydrated, and bright.
2. Liquid Crystal Eye Gel
For a deeply hydrating option, try our liquid crystal eye gel. This product not only plumps and hydrates skin but also provides powerful anti-aging benefits like the reduction of fine lines and wrinkles.
3. Luxury Eye Cream
Lock in moisture, brighten eyes, and reduce puffiness with our luxury eye cream. This indulgent cream firms the delicate under-eye area, boosts elastin production, and helps strengthen the skin’s barrier function.
4. Ultra Peptide Eye Cream
Our ultra peptide eye cream provides deeply penetrating moisture and dramatically firms skin, reduces puffiness, and diminishes dark circles. It is designed for the ultimate under-eye hydration experience.
5. Watermelon Tourmaline Eye Cream
Our gentle, antioxidant-filled watermelon tourmaline eye cream is perfect for anyone looking to soften and hydrate under-eye skin and get powerful antioxidant benefits. Vitamins A, C, and E stimulate collagen, brighten eyes, and decrease puffiness.
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