Product Review: Dermalogica Intensive Eye Repair
April 10, 2009 by Product Reviewer
Filed under Dermalogica, Product Reviews
If you have dry skin, you need to be particularly careful when choosing an eye wrinkle cream. For example, many eye wrinkle creams contain retinol, a form of vitamin A that is highly effective for reducing eye wrinkles, but it is very potent and has a tendency to irritate sensitive skin. People with dry skin can use eye wrinkle creams containing retinol, but I recommend only using those creams once or twice a week to prevent over-drying.
For daily use, look for an eye wrinkle cream with vitamins C and E, which are tolerable for all skin types. Both vitamins are powerful antioxidants that protect the skin from the free radicals that cause eye wrinkles and other signs of aging. Vitamin C stimulates the skin’s collagen production and helps strengthen the skin around the eyes, and vitamin E is a great moisturizer with healing properties.
An excellent do-it-all eye wrinkle cream for drier skin is Dermalogica’s Intensive Eye Repair Cream.
It contains both vitamins C and E, plus green tea, which is rich in antioxidants and is also said to protect against some sun exposure. To combat dry skin, this eye wrinkle cream uses panthenol, a moisturizer and humectant that hydrates the skin and improves the skin’s moisture retention. It also reduces under eye puffiness with arnica, cucumber and butcherbroom, which all decrease inflammation in the skin.
This Dermalogica eye cream is also effective for normal and combination skin, but I don’t recommend it for oily skin. In that case, daily use of an eye wrinkle cream with retinol is your best bet.
