Choosing the best anti aging eye cream is not a simple matter.

Eye cream ingredients have become more complex and varied. Reading labels on cosmetic packaging can be confusing and many of us end up spending a lot of money trying out products that just don't work.

But when it comes down to it, the bewildering array of eye creams on the cosmetic counter offer solutions to TWO main problems:

wrinkles, under-eye bags and puffiness

dark circles

Both of these are things that concern most of us as we get older. Skin becomes more fragile as we age and often shows up first as fine lines and wrinkles around the eyes. Not only that but thinner skin allows the blood vessels to show increasing the likelihood of dark circles.

The great thing is you can do something about both these problems - and nowadays that doesn't have to mean plastic surgery. To choose the best
anti aging eye cream for you, follow a simple three step plan:

1. Decide what problem is most important for you - wrinkles and puffiness OR under eye circles
2. Go for physician grade products with high levels of the active ingredients that specifically target your problem. This is the new trend in skin care - physicians and consultant dermatologists using their experience and medical training to produce high spec skin care ranges with ingredients they know to work. Examples include: Kinerase, Murad, Obagi, MD Skincare, Hylexin and Klein Becker's Strivectin - originally a medical product for stretch marks.
3. If you want to target wrinkles AND under-eye circles at the same time, choose an all round product - you lose some effectiveness but treat both at the same time.

So what are the ingredients and best products to look out for?

Eye creams that aim to lift and target wrinkles and puffiness will include actives like: caffeine, alcohol, retinol, alpha-hydroxy acids (AHA), copper peptides, and vitamin C to tighten skin and stimulate collagen growth.

Try Strivectin SD Eye Cream which has exactly the same active ingredients as the best selling Strivectin SD Cream but reformulated to avoid eye irritation.  As an alternative Kinerase Intensive Eye Cream specifically targets lines and wrinkles using high levels of the anti aging active ingredient - Kinetin. Excellent research and customer feedback support both products.

Eye creams for dark circles are most likely to include: vitamin K, kojic acid, and hydroquinone to inhibit bruising and leakage and lighten skin 

The best eye cream for dark circles is undoubtedly Hylexin - in fact it's the only eye cream to focus solely on reducing dark circles. 

The newly discovered active ingredient - Hylexin - comes with impressive clinical studies - 72% of users saw an 'obvious and visible' reduction in their dark circles. 

Hylexin has been selling like hot cakes and so far people who have actually used the cream are giving rave reviews  suggesting the maker's claims may be justified.

Eye creams in the 'all round' anti aging category - will include a combination of actives from both groups.  There are a huge number of products to choose from.

Sticking with the physician-grade products you can try MD Skincare's Lift and Lighten Eye Cream or Prevage Anti Aging Moisturizing Eye Cream containing "the most powerful antioxidant on the market" - idebenone.  Prevage eye cream got very high results in consumer tests - over 80% reporting significant improvement across all areas.

A few words of caution.

Don't expect any eye cream on it's own to work miracles. Genes play a part in how well your skin ages so you may have been unfortunate to inherit a dark circle or wrinkle gene from either parent!

But don't curse your luck and blame it all on your parents either - puffiness, wrinkles and dark circles are also related to smoking, sun exposure, poor diet, too much alcohol and lack of exercise. Take a look at these areas as well if you need to.

Like any anti aging strategy everything works better together - 'holistic' in the jargon. Put it another way - you'll look younger more quickly if you opt for the whole anti aging package!

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