While eye creams are important for helping to hydrate your delicate eye area, for more targeted eye care, turn to eye serums that contain more potent ingredients and smaller molecules that penetrate deeper into your skin.
Here are 13 of our top eye serum picks that absorb quickly to ease puffiness, dehydration, wrinkles and dark under-eye circles, all without feeling heavy on your skin.
This watery serum helps to hydrate and nourish the delicate skin around your eyes to improve the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. It has a cooling ceramic applicator to help to depuff and brighten the eye area and leave you looking refreshed and revitalised.
This has a blend of botanicals like skin regenerating Reishi mushroom and energising iris extract to strengthen your delicate eye area and fight stress. It also has a Smoothing Defense Complex that acts like a shield to protect against friction, and hydrating ingredients to moisturise and plump.
This helps to jump-start skin’s repair process using a cocktail of powerhouse peptides, algae extracts and antioxidants designed to target and treat signs of ageing like fine lines, puffiness, dullness and sagging around the eyes. It even has a Targeted Wrinkle Inhibitor and a Bioactive Complex to naturally relax muscles and reduce expression lines for a more rested look.
This serum is infused with coffee extract and antixoidants to help reduce the appearance of dark circles and fine lines, as well as fight free radical damage. As caffeine is a diuretic, this also works to relieve water retention to treat puffiness.
Containing L-Ascorbic Acid (vitamin C) at a potent strength of 10.5 per cent, the Kiehl’s Dermatologist Solutions Powerful-Strength Line-Reducing Eye-Brightening Concentrate boosts radiance and improves the texture of skin around the eye area to help it appear refreshed and illuminated.
Personalised to suit your skin concerns around the eye area, the alche{me} Personalised Eye Serum is formulated based on an online skin consultation. Potent botanical extracts like ginseng root extract and Butterfly bush flower extract, along with vitamins help ease problems like puffiness, dark under eye circles and crow’s feet. Plus, it’s fragrance free as well.
Formulated with Biotherm’s proprietary Aquasource complex, this cooling eye gel hydrates and soothes puffy eyes quickly, while simultaneously brightening the eye area. Perfect for days when you need to fake a full eight-hours rest.
Made with ingredients sourced from what Chanel calls “Blue zones” – areas in the world where people live longer – the Chanel Blue Eye Serum revitalises the eye area with potent antioxidants while keeping it hydrated and smooth.
This is infused with a unique collagen-building complex of amino peptides that is said to help increase the elasticity of thinning skin, as well as regenerate and retexturise your delicate eye area to reduce the appearance of fine lines for a visibly smoother, more supple complexion.
Soothing rosewater within the Fresh Rose Hydrating Eye Gel Cream helps it absorb quickly to ease dryness and dark under-eye circles.
Fake awake with the It Cosmetics Bye Bye Under Eye Eye Cream, a gentle eye cream that is suitable even for sensitive skin. Its quick-absorbing formula soothes dehydration quickly and reduces the appearance of dark circles and puffiness.
Known for being ultra-lightweight and hydrating, the LANEIGE Water Bank Eye Ge is just what tired eyes need. Its fast-absorbing formula penetrates deeply to soothe dryness and puffiness, and leaves skin moisturised for up to 24 hours.
The luxurious Sulwhasoo Timetreasure Renovating Eye Serum comes with its own 24K gold-plated massage tool which helps boost absorption and circulation. Follow the massage techniques to soothe puffiness and ease fatigue, while the potent red pine extract in the serum firms and brightens skin.
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Text: Arissa Ha, Additional text: Moh Shuying / Female
This post was first published on December 10, 2018, and updated on April 20, 2020.