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Eye creams
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Dear Brains,Forgive me if this has been asked before and I just didn't find it.What is the difference between really expensive eye creams, kind of expensive eye creams, just slightly expensive eye creams, and affordable eye creams? I'm thinking specifically of Caudalie ($95), Pangea Organics ($55), Kiehls ($30), and Burt's Bees ($15) respectively. You posted once before about the difference between eye creams and facial moisturizers (thanks, BTW, that was very helpful), and I'd like to know if there's a difference among eye creams before I go spend a lot of money.Appreciatively,--Missionista
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Missionista,
I would like to recommend an eye cream to you. I love love love Caudalie but the price tag is just too high. I am now using 100% pure coffee eye cream, it retails around $20. This is hands down the best eye cream I have used and have seen the results within 1 month of use.
I do not have the answer to your post but in my hunt for the best eye cream I truly find 100% pure's to be just that! I would love to know why Caudalie's is soo expensive myself, I adore the eye/lip cream but the price doesn't seem to give the results that I was looking for.
I look forward to the Brains post on this, and good luck in your search!
Dae8
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I knew I had read an article about this somewhere. I finally found it.
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my eye cream is $16 or so and that's quite expensive to me. and that is with hyaluronic acid :) an ingredient that actually works
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As I recall, the brains disagreed with Paula on this one. But I tend to favor paula's approach. I just use my cerave lotion around my eyes and it does a great job (it has hyaluronic acid too, and also niacinamide which may help with skin tone).
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never used eye cream never will. I saw no difference in ingredients and I think the primary reason eye cream is made to in tool is because of Milia, but all you need to remember is not to use too heavy of product around your eye, that goes for make as well. They say you should also exfoliate regularly if your prone. But I don't know what method of exfoliation is okay so the lower and upper eye lids.
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i like to use eye cream as a treat, makes me feel like i'm taking care of my face and preventing premature aging better :) i used to use my face cream till 2 month ago, but since i turned 25 time to be serious
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Ally, sorry 25 is not nearly serious time...these young ones, I tell ya;)
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Sarah is right Ally. I mean, seriously, don't go using any products that guarantee you will look 10 years younger!;)
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i never would buy any such things at 25. i buy basic stuff. i have my mother to be on my case on this subject, she started antiaging in her late thirties and she always tells me 'if you start using retinol now what are you gonna do when you're 50?' :))) i stick to sunscreen, but i can see a lot of damage on my skin already from all those sunburns as a child and teenager. mine is the kind of skin prone to birthmarks and burns in 20min in the sun
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I know Ally--you're right to be good to your skin early--I'm just jealous:)
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Keep wearing that sunscreen Ally! You will be glad you did later in life. I know too many young women your age and a little younger who seem to believe they are 10 feet tall and bulletproof when it comes to their skin. They do the whole tanning bed thing and never wear sunscreen. I shudder to think what the results are going to be for them.There is one woman I know, several years younger than I am, who took that route when we were younger. She had a tanning bed in her basement and was in it daily. Now? Well the girl who looked as pretty as a Barbie doll is no more. She looks older than her mother now.I am hoping that when the new labeling rules for sunscreen come into effect later this year the Brains will do a blog post about it.I was just reading in a WebMD article this morning that now, finally, the manufacturers are being asked to prove that spray sunscreens are giving the spf listed on the label. The consumer does need to know. I have been told that it works well if it is sprayed on and rubbed in. The problem is how much do you need to spray on?I am looking forward to that sunscreen in a pill. A part of me wonders what sort of side effects that is bound to have though. Too often I listen to the list of side effects they disclose on commercials for various drugs and think the patient might be better off just keeping the problem they originally had because it sounds like they are trading one problem for a, possible, host of other problems. (i.e. side effects)
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If you use a sunscreen that is natural/organic you should be all set. There are just too many on the market that are full of crap and that is where the fear of the 'side effect' comes from, in my opinion.
Remember you usually pay for what your getting, so when it comes to eye creams you will find them to be a bit more expensive but some actually work. The skin on your eyes is not the same as on the rest of your face, so you must treat it differently!
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on the subject of sunscreens - i started using it religiously (always pa+++) 2 years ago, before that I would get sunburns and go tanning in a tanning salon, so i have a bit of damage already :( wish all this info was available earlier on
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@Lindygirl--I would have thought that spray sunscreens are already being tested for the labeled spf--is that not the case?
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@ Sarah - My line of thinking was how do you know when to stop spraying? Does it have to be ready to drip off your skin before you have reached the spf on the label? Or can you spritz it and rub it in? How do you know you are using enough?? With the lotion variety at least you have the guidelines....what is it? A teaspoonful amount for face and neck and the equivalent of a shot glass full for the body? This expert says a nickel sized dollop for the face and neck...And spray until you see a sheen on the skin for spray on.I think, if I understand what I read correctly, that the questions arising are not do these sunscreens have the spf listed on the label, they do, but are consumers applying enough to get the spf listed on the label?
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Wow. I just noticed. This started out about eye creams and we veered off that topic and onto sunscreens. :)
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Thanks for the clarification--I get it. Yeah, this is officially a sunscreen thread now. Or unofficially, at any rate.
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hmmm..new post on the blog from the Brains addresses part of the points in this thread....
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I noticed that. Too bad, sprays are my go-to for the body in the summer.
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They have been my go-to for the past couple of years for days when I will be outside for many hours. Basically because you can reapply without your skin feeling goopy. My personal experience has been if you use the lotion variety sunscreen and then try to reapply using spray it just makes a goopy mess so I got in the habit of using the spray as the base too..I had tried the route of reapplying lotion over lotion before but left my skin feeling really tacky and sticky to the touch.Maybe I was doing something wrong when reapplying. Any ideas?
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Guilty here too. I reapply when I am outside all day long but not when I am in and out. Not good, I know.And then the whole issue of if you are wearing full face makeup how do you reapply sunscreen... I just don't trust sunscreens in makeup to give protection. You would have to apply so much of it to get the spf on the label the makeup would look bad. So none of my makeup has sunscreen.Some days when I am going to be out all day I do wear makeup (i.e. not beach days). The best theory I had heard to date was spray the spray on sunscreen on a makeup wedge and blot, blot, blot over your makeup. By blotting you don't disturb the makeup. But with the new information presented in the blog by the Brains I wonder is that doing any good.Am I the only one who feels like this should be rather simple but after you start thinking about it ...it is anything but simple?
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I think what I was saying is that--true, true confessions--I don't reapply even if I'm out for a while unless I'm literally at the beach! That said, I don't hike much these days and there aren't many settings in which I would be out all day other than the beach. If I were doing something athletic (hike, etc), I would reapply, but I can't say I'd be pulling out my spray or lotion at an outdoor wedding/reception or something similar. What I would do is use a mineral sunscreen that can't be easily sweated off (and whatever the skin cancer foundation may say about reapplying regardless of formulation, I do delude myself that the mineral ones tend to stick on your skin more than the chemical ones and are not broken down by sunlight).I agree, Lindygirl--it isn't simple. Maybe this isn't adequate, but what I tell myself is that by doing something it is better than nothing, and you can probably take some clues from how your skin is reacting (are you darkening or burning, for example). In my case I am staying lily white year round these days (especially on my face where I've been most faithful about sunscreen--I'm working on the chest and arms), so that tells me that I'm doing something right.
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If I come back from a tropical vacation and my skin is no darker than when I left home I figure I did a good enough job with the sunscreen!Over the course of an entire summer though I will get a 'tan line' despite my best efforts on my arms. I am not so sure I could prevent that without wearing long sleeves all the time. I am pretty sure I couldn't stand that.
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