Can You Use Wrinkle Cream If You Don’t Have Wrinkles?

Andrea Asks Our Opinion: I was wondering what’s your opinion on Neutrogena’s HealthySkin® Face Lotion SPF 15 and Neutrogena Healthy Skin® Eye Cream. A friend of mine recommended it, but I wanted to hear your opinion about it first… is the eye cream really effective? I’m thinking about using it because it moisturizes eye skin but I have no wrinkles, would it be harmful for my skin then?  And what about the face lotion – will it make my skin sun sensitive?

The Right Beauty Brain Is Neutral On Neutrogena:
The Neutrogena products you ask about are pretty basic.  The eye cream is fairly typical.  The Neutrogena Healthy Skin Anti-Wrinkle Cream SPF 15 appears to be a decent moisturizer, but it can only protect you from UVB rays, not UVA, because it doesn’t contain any Mexoryl, titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, or avobenzone. So, the bad news is that it won’t offer broad spectrum sun protection. The good news is that won’t make your face more sun sensitive, as you asked.  Still, for $11.99, you might want more than that.

Beauty Brains bottom line

To answer your question, YES, you can use it even if you don’t have wrinkles. This product is just formulated to be a light moisturizer for use around the eye – it won’t cause wrinkles.  If you don’t have any, you’ll just get nicely moisturized skin.

(Wouldn’t that be weird – if wrinkle creams caused wrinkles? It’s like that old joke – if you plant grass seed to grow grass, what do you grow when you plant bird seed?)

Ouch, that’s a bad joke! Why did I just type that? It sounds more like the Left Brain’s sense of humor!