Beauty Tips for Applying Eye Creams

Protecting the delicate skin around the eyes is an essential part of maintaining youthful and healthy appearing skin. This skin is thinnest and can be damaged easily through excessive exposure to sun, chemicals and a lack of proper skin care routine.
Many people are unaware that something as simple as rubbing the eyes on a regular basis can deplete the elastic nature of the skin and lead to sagging and therefore, it is important to avoid excessive rubbing of the eye area.

How should eye cream be applied to the eye area? Eye cream should be applied delicately. Remember, only a small amount is necessary as the cream is concentrated to contain ingredients which are effective in the prevention of fine lines. Using the pinky finger, or ring finger, dab the eye cream in small amounts through the skin of the eye. Gently rub the cream into the surface, ensuring that it is absorbed into the skin.

There are new eye creams which have been created to instantly revive the eyes and eradicate the puffiness that can come from having just been woken up or can be used in case a pick-me-up is needed. These eye creams have effective ingredients which can cause the eyes to instantly appear brighter by reducing the redness around the eye area and cause the eyes to appear wider and the skin to appear more supple, rather than swollen.

Eye cream is best applied at night when the skin is void of any products, after it has been washed before bed. Ensure that the skin is completely dry before the eye cream is applied, as this can reduce the amount of cream which is absorbed into the skin and can therefore reduce the effectiveness of the eye cream which is being applied.

Choosing the eye cream which will be applied to the skin depends largely on the type of skin that the individual encompasses as well as the purpose in which the eye cream is being applied. There are two types of eye creams which are used on a regular basis; those which are used to prevent wrinkles and fine lines from forming in the skin and those which are meant to reduce the appearance of these fine lines. Both types of creams contain similar ingredients which can help to boost the collagen levels in the skin and cause the area to appear less wrinkled and sagging if wrinkles and fine lines are present, or to continue the production of collagen to reduce the instance of fine lines in the future if a preventative eye cream is being used.

As the eye cream is being used to protect such a sensitive area, it makes sense that one should shop for an eye cream that contains sunscreen to protect the delicate skin from the harmful rays of the sun. A sun protection factor rating of at least fifteen percent is recommended, with many eye creams using upwards of forty-five. When it comes to protecting your skin from the sun, the higher the better is the general consensus.
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By Orlando Mora
Published: 6/3/2009
 
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