Eye creams are just confusing, right? I do actually question whether we truly need them at all – the whole story about under eye skin being thinner than other skin on the face might well be true but it doesn’t automatically follow that it can’t tolerate creams meant for the rest of the face. To be honest, I rarely use an eye cream because of that nagging doubt and also because I’m waiting for ‘the one’.
bareMinerals Eye Nourishing Oil Balm is an interesting one. The format is as it sounds – a balm, which rather flies in the face of all previous standard information about eyes needing lighter products. However, the rosehip seed oil fuelled balm doesn’t really feel heavy at all but I would prefer to use this at night because it doesn’t absorb as readily as a gel might and it has no SPF.
Rosehip seed oil is rich in omegas 3 and 6 – always welcome in a skin care product – and the smell is a rather generic botanical scent that’s not, thankfully, overpowering in any way.
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I think if you get particularly dry under the eyes, this will be all kinds of useful (and in fact, for any facial dry patches) but I wouldn’t recommend it for younger skin or for skin that isn’t dry.
It’s always good to see something a bit different though – I’ve lost count of the number of eye creams that fall straight into the ‘boring’ file. bareMinerals Eye Nourishing Oil Balm isn’t boring, but it’s not going to be for everyone. It launches in January for £26.
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I totally agree with you here, I am very suspicious of this whole concept of the eye area being more delicate than an ancient dowager duchess. What I do know is that a lot of face creams burn like the dickens when you get some in your eye, and most eye creams don’t.
I have little patches of very dry skin on the outside corners of my eye. That started when I was 30-ish, I think. This is why I used eye creams, but actually they didn’t help much. The best eye cream I ever tried was the La Mer Eye Concentrate (I had a sample). But 175 € for a pot … no.
What I have been using on those dry and somestimes even a bit sore spots for over a year now is … Lush Ultrabalm. It doesn’t burn, works great and a pot lasts forever. I also use it on my lips, for dry nails and cuticles, for little cuts and so on. I think it’s also good for my lashes! And of course, compared to eye creams it’s dirt cheap.