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Say it ain’t so, but a major UK consumer organization claims that spending money on fancy eye creams is like investing in horses and buggies, or erm, something like that. The group Which? tested 12 anti-wrinkle products on volunteers between 35 and 65 years old, and “found none of them came close to eliminating or reducing the appearance of lines.” Not. Even. One. As a result, they concluded that a $5 eye cream is not too different from a $50-plus one. [Belfast Telegraph]
Really? Do you agree?
Women are notoriously fastidious about their eye creams. Maybe it’s because the eyes are such an important feature—it’s often the one people notice first—that we’d like to think if there’s anything we can do to make them look more well-rested, firm and relatively crow’s feet-free, we’ll gladly pay for the privilege. And while I’m the first one to recommend your drugstore brand over more expensive department store products, I have to admit that when it comes to the eye cream category, I’ve had trouble finding anything that comes close to the secure-feeling spackle-and-airbrushed (in a good way) effect I get from my Clarins Instant Smooth, $30, or the I-slept-nine-hours-last-night look that a dose of skin brightening Prescriptives Vibrant-C, $38, lends.
I totally get that a moisturizer is just a moisturizer no matter what the price, and I think we all (hopefully) know by now that 99.9 percent of skincare creams only work on a cosmetic, superficial level, but maybe it’s that cheaper brands are lacking in the kind of sophisticated formulations that pull that more polished look off? No, I know that’s not exactly right, because mass companies have even more talented chemists on staff than smaller companies can afford to recruit. Perhaps I just need to road-test some more of the latest lower-priced brands.
I guess this is a long way of asking: Do you personally think
it’s worth it to shell out a little extra for an eye cream, and, if
so, why? And if you’re all like, “Hell no!” can you please
share some cheap ones with the class!?--Erin Flaherty for
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