Care For Skin Around Eyes

The skin around the eyes and on the eyelids is a difficult area to rebuild and must be done gradually. As you age, your eyes might need an extra lift. Try targeting ageing skin around your eyes with a skin care product packed with anti-aging ingredients. Dry skin around the eyes needs extra care as this area is already sensitive. Gently apply eye cream with your fingertips. Apply onto clean skin always before moisturizer.

Not all skin is created equal. The skin around the eye has its own special traits:
* It has virtually no sebacious glands, which makes it highly prone to dryness.
* It is much thinner and more sensitive than other facial skin.
* It overlies a particularly dense capillary network and has minimal fat padding, which makes the eye area prone to puffiness.
* It is stressed by frequent eye movements and squinting.

All of the above often makes the eye area the first place where signs of aging appear on the face. Therefore, if you want to keep looking young as long as possible, it is usually not enough to take care of your skin in general. You need to neutralize a natural tendency of the skin in the eye area to age faster than the rest of your face.

The skin around your eyes is very sensitive and delicate, which needs good care at all age. Weather its summer or winter or any other season, follow some simple steps and guidelines as under, to have healthier skin around your eyes:
* To reduce the dark circles around your eyes, no matter at what age you are, get at least seven to eight hours sleep every night. Sleeping with your head slightly elevated would help you working against gravity; which causes fluid to collect in your lower eyelids resulting in dark circles.
* Use an eye cream around the eyes to keep moisture in the skin.
* When applying cream or make up around the eyes use the ring finger (as it exerts less pressure).
* Don't rub eyes frequently as this can cause an eye infection and in turn causing infection in the skin around eyes.

Here are some more advices to soften and rejuvenate your eye skin:
* Dip cotton pads in chilled milk and place on closed eyes for 10 minutes. Now relax completely. This is to relax the eye skin muscles when they are tired after working with computers.
* Grate a potato with its peel and apply on your closed eyelids for about 20 minutes and relax completely. This is to care your eyes to have firm muscles.
* Put sliced cucumber over your eyes to avoid developing dark circles.
* If your eyes are red and feeling itchy, massage your scalp with curd, to reduce the unwanted temperature around your eye skin.
* Wash your eyes with cold water often to get sparkling feel for your eye skin.
* Give a massage to the eyes, by gentle finger movement always down to up.
* Don't wear contact lenses for extended periods of time or overnight as this makes your eyes feel tiring and hence giving unnecessary strain to your eye skin.
* When you splash water do not do this furiously believing doing this will take away tiredness instead wash gently as splashing may hurtle the smallest dust particles or an allergen which may damage the cornea which will again spoil your eye skin as well.
* Don't use handkerchiefs to wipe eyes, instead use disposable tissues, which are more hygienic to your sensitive eye skin.
* Don't sit near by the television and minimum of 15 feet distance should be maintained from the television and keep your book at least two feet away to strengthen your eye skin muscles.
* Use cream based eye makeup as powdery eye shadows can enter eyes and, cause irritation to the eye muscles and skin near by your eyes.
* Do not handle your eyes and eyelids harsh while using lenses, as the skin will soon loose its strength by handling rough manner.
* Don't use your mascara for more than a year, as it may weaken your eye skin.

The skin around the eyes is particularly sensitive and often reacts to allergens, especially artificial and synthetic chemicals. Many of these conditions can be avoided or alleviated by using natural skin care products in preference to non-natural, synthetic skin care and cosmetics.