If eyes are the windows to the soul, they are also the first area of the face to really show your age. I have been on the hunt for the best eye creams since I was 20! For the life of me I can not remember who told me to start using eye cream in college, but I thank whoever it was. I am also paying that advice forward to every young adult I can (or will listen).
Note: This post was previously published on March 28, 2024, and has been updated with new products and insights.
As I get older, my eye creams keep getting thicker—but even between Botox appointments, I’ve started noticing some stubborn smile lines creeping in around my eyes. Well, I’m not giving up smiling, Botox or eye cream. I wrote abut anti-aging creams before, but now I have found so many more to covet. Here are 15 of the best anti-aging eye creams I have recently tried. They are all worth a mention to help fight the fight when it comes to aging! They range in prices, too. Some are luxury and others are drugstore beauty steals.
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The Best Anti-Aging Eye Creams For Wrinkles, Dark Circles and Puffiness
1. La Roche-Posay Redermic R Retinol Eye Cream, $49.99
This anti-aging retinol eye cream is formulated with pure retinol and visibly reduces the look of crow’s feet, wrinkles and dark circles. It provides an instant visible lifting effect, and is gentle enough for the sensitive eye area. It’s a great value for what you get!
2. SK-II LXP Ultimate Revival Eye Cream, $200
I love this luxurious eye cream as much as life itself. It’s made with 8 times more concentrated PITERA™ (SK-II’s signature anti-aging ingredient) for younger-looking eyes. This rich moisturizer delivers instant hydration, diminishing the appearance of dark circles and discolorations around the eye, while softening fine lines and wrinkles. Other ingredients include rose absolute and Lychee extract. This eye cream literally transforms eyes.
3. Hada Labo Tokyo Correcting Eye Cream Deep Hydration, $18.99
This lightweight, affordable, multifunctional eye cream is formulated to address the major signs of aging and fatigue. It actually visibly transforms the entire eye area. It restores moisture, smooths fine lines and wrinkles, reduces dark circles and puffiness, and lifts and firms the eyelid area. Oh and it also brightens and illuminates instantly. The key ingredients are Super Hyaluronic Acid, Pink Silk Tree Bark Extract, Collagen, Caffeine, and Light Diffusing Pigments. This eye cream is free from fragrance, parabens, dyes and mineral oil and is recommended for all skin types. There’s so much to love for such a low price.
4. Rodan + Fields REDEFINE Multi-Function Eye Cream, $69.99
Rodan + Fields firming eye cream improves appearance of crow’s feet, expression lines, puffiness and fine lines. Optical diffusers brighten the eye area. Line-defying Peptides help minimize the appearance of fine lines and expression lines and visibly firm the under-eye area for younger-looking eyes. Glycerin helps to moisturize.
5. Jones Road Rich Eye Cream, $42
Cushiony and ultra-nourishing, this new rich eye cream delivers a serious dose of hydration for eyes that look fresh and well-rested. Use it as an overnight mask or in the morning when your skin needs extra moisture. Formulated with Niacinamide and Ceramides, it helps brighten the under-eye area, lock in moisture, and create a smooth base—perfect for concealing dark circles.
6. Biossance Squalane + Marine Algae Firming & Lifting Eye Cream, $56
I love this Allure Best of Beauty award-winning eye cream because it contains squalene, which is deeply moisturizing. This lightweight cream instantly lifts and firms, diminishing fine lines and brightening the entire eye area. It’s vegan, fragrance free and works for all skin types.
7. RoC Retinol Correxion Line Smoothing Eye Cream, $29.99
RoC Retinol Correxion Line Smoothing Eye Cream helps reduce crow’s feet, dark circles and puffiness. This gentle eye cream is formulated with retinol that helps condition skin while fighting lines and wrinkles. It is gentle enough to use every day. It also contains hyaluronic acid to bind essential moisture in your skin to re-plump wrinkles. This eye cream is phthalmologist-tested, oil-free and noncomedogenic.
8. Neocutis Lumiere Riche Extra Moisturizing Illuminating Eye Cream, $125
Neocutis Lumiere Eye Cream targets fine lines and dark circles. The hydrating formula softens and plumps skin to fill in crow’s feet and create a smooth texture. Made with PSP, this advanced formula revitalizes the delicate skin around the eyes. This technology repairs damaged cells to help tighten and firm skin. Because this product works on a number of concerns, you can use this product as your all-in-one anti-aging eye cream.
9. PRAI Beauty Ageless Eye D-Crease, $40.95
This eye cream is formulated with key complexes that have been shown to target and improve the look of fine lines, wrinkles and temporarily uplift the the look of skin around the eye area. It’s formulated with a trio of key complexes including Idealift™, Hematite Extract™ and Nulastic Silk™. Use it morning and night.
10. OLEHENRIKSEN Banana Bright+ Vitamin C Brightening Eye Crème, $45
This award-winning brightening, vitamin C-rich eye cream is a fan favorite for good reason. It targets signs of aging, reducing the look of dark circles while improving concealer application and wear with…banana powder. Special pigments instantly brighten and color-correct the eye area and creates a smooth canvas. Be gone dark circles and crow’s feet!
11. emerginC – Hyper-Vitalizer Eye Cream, $64
This rich nourishing eye cream with alpha-lipoic acid, coenzyme Q10 and lutein helps tune and lighten the area around the eyes. It’s ideal for all skin types to fight signs of aging. I love how it is rich and creamy. This eye cream feels like heaven on your eyes.
12. Yon-Ka Paris Skincare Phyto-Contour, $74
Yon-Ka Paris Skincare Phyto-Contour replenishes moisture and minimizes the appearance of puffy, tired and aging eyes. Lavender, rosemary and cypress oils moisturize to diminish the appearance of crow’s feet and also boosts circulation to refresh the skin. Citric acid brightens the skin to minimize the appearance of dark circles
13. Trilogy Eye Contour Cream, $40.99
Restore a smoother, firmer appearance to the delicate eye contour area with this unique gel/cream formulation. Trilogy’s Eye Contour Cream is a powerful anti-aging cream to use morning and night. It is also perfect anytime for tired, travel-weary eyes. It’s fast absorbing for immediate make-up application in the morning, so use it both day and night.
14. Aveeno Active Naturals Absolutely Ageless Eye Cream Blackberry, $28.19
I love Aveeno products. They are some of my drugstore “musts.” This eye cream is no different. Active Naturals Absolutely Ageless Eye Cream nourishes the delicate skin around the eyes to reveal younger, healthier-looking skin. This gentle yet effective eye cream contains the exclusive Active Naturals Blackberry Complex which is clinically shown to nourish the skin and help improve the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles…even crow’s feet.
15. Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair Eye Supercharged Gel-Creme Synchronized Multi-Recovery Eye Cream, $74
This eye cream isn’t new, but it’s still one of the best out there. Packed with powerful ingredients, it tackles the visible signs of too little sleep, UV exposure, and pollution—leaving your eyes looking brighter, more hydrated, and refreshed. It targets dark circles, puffiness, fine lines, and dryness, delivering serious all-around benefits for the eye area. No surprise it won Allure’s Best of Beauty Award back in 2018. I use it morning and night—it’s like faking a full night’s sleep in a jar.
Do you have a favorite eye cream you’d like to tell us about?
You may like to read more of Lauren’s beauty posts for women over 40 like 8 Best Anti-Aging Face Sheet Masks You Must Try! and 8 Of The Best Anti-Aging Beauty Oils To Try Now.
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I will definitely buy something for myself.
Good! Please let us know which one you get and if you like it!
Great list of eye creams. My eyes are so trashed from wearing contacts for over 50 years, I’m not sure anything will help. Mary Kay always had a good eye cream as well.
Eye cream is one thing I usually forget. I have to get in the habit.