One of the most commonly asked questions in my office is “What eye cream do you recommend?”, I usually answer that it depends on what you are looking for.  Do you have dark circles, bags, or fine lines?

In the past, I have recommended freezing green tea bags,thawing them with a little cold water and relaxing for 10 minutes with the tea bags on your eyes to help reduce eye puffiness.  I have recommended human growth factors that you can find in Skin Medica’s TNS Night Eye Repair and Neocutis’ Lumiere as well as Renova for fine lines around the eyes.  Dark circles, hmmmmmm…. in eight years of seeing patients and trying creams I have yet to find one that I LOVE for dark circles.  Now I don’t have dark circles around my eyes, but plenty of my patients do.  When they don’t come back in raving about what I have recommended, I stop recommending it.   Last but not least, if your eyes are bothering you enough to depress you every single morning when you look in the mirror, sooner or later you will likely be consulting with a plastic surgeon about a blepharoplasty (which is a fantastic procedure) but in the meantime….

It looks like there is finally an eye cream on the market that claims to do all of the above. SKinCeuticals, a company known for their extraordinary antioxidant serums has just released A.G.E. Eye Complex.
This eye cream contains a complex of flavonoids and synergistic peptides that strengthen blood vessel walls, improve lymphatic drainage and eliminate hemoglobin’s colored end-products which ultimately greatly decreases dark circles and puffiness surrounding the eye.  This all occurs in 4 – 12 weeks based on the company’s clinical studies(which have produced some pretty amazing pictures).

How does it work to reverse fine lines and wrinkles?  These are big claims, but this is how they are doing it.  By twelve weeks and beyond, blueberry extract interrupts the formation of advanced glycation end-products (A.G.E.) and Proxylane restores water and nutrient content to the dermal epidermal junction (D.E.J.) to increase skin elasticity and thickness for dramatic improvement of wrinkles and crow’s feet.  Now you all know that I am a huge fan of human growth factors, but I sure am willing to give this a try, besides whose to say that I can’t apply human growth factors as well?  I have been using it for a few weeks now and must say that I love the texture of the eye complex as well as the cooling sensation that I feel after applying it.   I can’t wait to get some feedback from my patients on this new eye cream.

For those of you who don’t know, Skin Solutions MD and myself Rachel Garcia, have joined Dr. James Hardy at his Plastic Surgery Center located on 11512 Lake Mead Avenue, Suite 605, Jacksonville, FL 32256.  Unfortunately, the dermatology office that I have worked in for three years is closing and I thought long and hard about where to plant my feet and start fresh.  After receiving many job offers I chose Dr. Hardy.  He is a very gifted plastic surgeon, who specializes in breast work although does fantastic work on all body parts.  I worked with a plastic surgeon for 2 years in Gainesville, Florida so I have some past experience with one and knew what I was looking for this time around.   I am still injecting fillers and Botox as I have been for the past eight years as well as continuing to use all of the lasers that I have in the past. Please come visit us at our new location for a free skin care consult at anytime, we would love to see you.