Beauty

[Porcelain]

@Shanus Good advice! I don't use a moisturizer around my eyes currently. But I did use one that way in the past with good results. Whether or not this is a good idea is completely situation and product specific. When in doubt, opt for caution.

The point of an eye cream is a) to address eye-specific concerns, and b) to only contain ingredients and concentrations that are approved for use in the eye area. Anything that comes in contact with the mucosa (aka mucus membrane: eye rim, inner lip) is required to abide by stricter standards than for regular facial skin. That's the main reason cosmetics companies make separate versions of their products for the eye and or lip area.

With an eye cream you are pretty much guaranteed to only have ingredients that are A OK for that area.

But sometimes those differences are moot because the moisturizer ingredients are all fine for use anywhere. For a particular product, there may be no corresponding eye cream because the ingredients don't need to be changed to use around the eyes, so there would be no point to just popping it into a smaller pot. No way to say categorically which moisturizers are like this.

What I do, and like very much, is to apply my serums all over the face and neck, including eye area. Then I take 1 pump of Isomers MesmerEyez in my palm and a tiny bit of Isomers Ceramide serum and mix the two together. I use that as my "eye cream." It moisturizes and treats beautifully. No milia so far!

[suzyQ3]

@Porcelain, I recall buying an eye cream quite some time ago and had to laugh because it stated on the package not to use near the eyes. I wish I could remember the brand.

In any case, I can understand not using a moisturizer around the eyes that might have actives that would make it perhaps unwise, but other than that, I can't see any problem with it. I've certainly never had a problem with irritation or puffiness from application.

Maybe discounting body products, I tend to wonder about companies' reasons for selling such specific moisturizers - face, eye, neck, throat, etc.

[Porcelain]

@suzyQ3 "I recall buying an eye cream quite some time ago and had to laugh because it stated on the package not to use near the eyes."

That's just crazy town! My best guess is that the product was fine for the eye area for most people, but one of the ingredients was in there at a non-mucosa-approved concentration. So their legal advisor wouldn't let them sell it without the warning.

What drives me nuts is that I often find that eye creams make me weepy. Something in there is doing something irritating even though it's officially all fine and dandy. Trial and trial and trail and error and error and error. When you stumble upon something that works--grab it!

[CyberToothTiger]

Just when you thought it was safe ( insert horror film soundtrack of your choice ) >>>)

I recently had an preternaturally severe case of ocular rosacea which basically manifested without warning...(even Nostradamus was shocked )...One day I was fine , skin as clear as a Barbara Streisand Movie and the next I basically looked like I crawled out of a dumpster at the nearest Nuclear plant , / or was involuntarily transformed into some alien reptilian antagonist in desperate need of a Clearisil commercial....Unfortunately this lasted for several months ( and in paper hospital gown time or house fly time, twas exponentially even longer) alas without a soupcon of relief ..

Sigh, My eyes felt like they were being regularly sliced open with razor blades that had been roasted at temps normally found on Venus , my lids were endlessly assaulted by bayonets basted in battery acid , and They itched / b*tched ad infinitum,, ( rinse and repeat) and to compound this less than charming/ alarming noxious narrative I constantly sported a burgeoning barrage o' lesions which swelled up so much they were threatening to take over the nearest bowling alley with Steve McQueen...

Anyway The only thing I could use around my beleaguered eyes that didn't force me to engage in round the clock primal therapy ( IE screaming like a demented banshee or any of the characters on a Real Housewives Episode)) was Mario Badesco's Vitamin E Face Cream & his Olive Oil eye cream,.......BTW I was not paid for this endorsement

[Shanus]

@suzyQ3. While keratin filled cysts may cause some milia to form, the few I’ve had removed were from using a too rich eye cream. I assume there are multiple causes for different conditions.

[suzyQ3]

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@Shanus wrote:

@suzyQ3. While keratin filled cysts may cause some milia to form, the few I’ve had removed were from using a too rich eye cream. I assume there are multiple causes for different conditions.

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@Shanus, I think that you misunderstood me. Keratin-filled cysts ARE milia. Milia are not clogged pores They occur when some type of trauma causes the skin to fold over and encase the keratin. It is the definition of a milium.

As for causes, yes, there a many things that can cause trauma. All the credible sites I found listed sun damage and the others in my post as the main ones.