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Nov 8 PRODUCT REVIEW: THE INKEY LIST CAFFEINE EYE SERUM - BEST EYE CREAM FOR PUFFINESS

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THE INKEY LIST | CAFFEINE EYE SERUM

This review was originally part of my blog article titled, Brands I Love: The Inkey List Affordable Skincare - Best Anti-Aging Serums, Best Anti-Aging Moisturizers & More. You can catch the full piece here.

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I gotta admit, sometimes I don’t use a separate eye cream. That sounds scandalous, doesn’t it? I just don’t believe that my eye area needs anything different than the skin on the rest of my face. Or yours.

What the eye area needs is hydration, moisture, antioxidants, sunscreen, maybe even amino acid proteins. From time to time, I do want to treat puffiness and even pretend to treat dark circles, which are essentially untreatable in any real way. Get sleep, drink water. If those don’t help, use a concealer.

Inkey’s Caffeine eye serum has a nice, light, and silky consistency that my skin soaks right up in the morning, making it easy to layer. It’s not an overly complicated or very innovative formula — it’s just a straight up solid formula for puffiness in the eye area.

Does caffeine help with puffiness?

Whether or not caffeine as a significant effect on puffiness is up in the air. It does possess a proven antioxidant benefits. According to the experts on the Paula’s Choice Research Team,

Caffeine is the chief stimulant in beverages such as coffee and tea. It’s often included in skincare products with claims that it will improve the look of cellulite or puffy eyes. Unfortunately, research into caffeine’s effects in this regard are mixed. Caffeine’s popularity in products related to cellulite is due to its distant relationship to aminophylline (an ingredient once thought to improve the look of cellulite), which is a modified form of theophylline, and caffeine contains theophylline.

Applied to skin, caffeine may have soothing and antioxidant properties, especially when skin is exposed to UV light. It can penetrate skin and has a constricting effect, which can help improve the look of redness but also may be sensitizing.

When it comes to puffy eyes, there is no research indicating caffeine can have any benefit; in fact, research has shown caffeine has an inhibitory action on a key protein in skin that helps it look younger. Truly, it’s a mix of pros and cons for skin, though lower amounts (less than 1%) in skincare products probably don’t present much, if any, risk.

As the name suggests, Inkey’s Caffeine Eye Serum contains Caffeine to help alleviate puffiness. Caffeine in skincare is even more reliable as an antioxidant. Even better antioxidants in the formula include Soybean Extract and, interestingly, Albizia Julibrissin Bark Extract.

According to the Paula’s experts, the plant’s bark “has one study showing it’s a more effective antioxidant than ascorbic acid (vitamin C).”

In addition, Inkey added the Matrixyl 3000 Peptide molecule to help support collagen production. You can’t go wrong with this one. In fact, I wish every person who’s ever purchased La Mer’s $235 The Eye Concentrate could be sent one of these with an accompanying dunce cap.

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