# the best eye cream?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 19, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-eye-cream/396602 "2007-03-19T18:14:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unbrok3npp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c68b51/32.png) [@unbrok3npp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unbrok3npp)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-eye-cream/396602/1 "2007-03-19T18:14:53Z")
Ive brought this up in an earlier post… my girlfriend has significant wrinkles under her eyes and i am in the process of finding a “cure” I was wondering if anyone could reccommend an effective/favorite cream or other supliment that woul help these wrinkles. I have seen many different products and i am becomming overwhelmed…so any help would be greatly apprefciated by me and her. I have been looking at Arbonne Intelligence Daily Eye Cream. please help! thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Caridwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-eye-cream/396602/2 "2007-03-19T18:54:22Z")
To be honest, I’ve never heard of someone 17 that had wrinkles. I’d really recommend she see a dermatologist or a doctor. Any recommendations about an eye cream are going to be purely anecdotal since there are thousands on the market. ---
**Author:** ![unbrok3npp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c68b51/32.png) [@unbrok3npp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unbrok3npp)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-eye-cream/396602/3 "2007-03-19T19:01:39Z")
[QUOTE=Caridwen] To be honest, I’ve never heard of someone 17 that had wrinkles. I’d really recommend she see a dermatologist or a doctor. Any recommendations about an eye cream are going to be purely anecdotal since there are thousands on the market. [/QUOTE] she had bad allergies…and she goes through a lot of stress.. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-eye-cream/396602/4 "2007-03-19T21:41:53Z")
I like chocolate chip cookie dough. Oh, you said EYE cream. My mistake. Get thee to a dermatologist! ---
**Author:** ![unbrok3npp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c68b51/32.png) [@unbrok3npp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unbrok3npp)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-eye-cream/396602/5 "2007-03-19T22:17:25Z")
she has screwed up parents…i dont know how easy a trip to the dermatologist would be… ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-eye-cream/396602/6 "2007-03-19T22:36:34Z")
In my experience (I am a woman in my late fifties), creams may make your skin feel soft and smooth, but they won’t make the wrinkles around your eyes go away. Surgery, laser treatment, Botox, or a professional skin peel can help with wrinkles, but I can’t imagine that a teenager needs such things. Everyone has a few facial quirks. A young girl with a few wrinkles will still look like a young girl, just as Joan Rivers with no wrinkles still looks like a crone. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-eye-cream/396602/7 "2007-03-19T23:41:04Z")
I can’t think of anything worse for a girlw ith wrinkles than to be bombarded with advertising and products telling her how she should/shouldn’t look. Aside from surgery, most of it is complete and utter bullshit (and overpriced, at that). If she just has bags, try cold spoons, teabags and fewer beauty magazines. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-eye-cream/396602/8 "2007-03-19T23:51:44Z")
A recent _Consumer Reports_ had a report on these. It should be available at your local library. But … don’t get her hopes up much. As I recall, their ranking said that even the best of these made only a “minor” improvement. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-eye-cream/396602/9 "2007-03-20T00:37:56Z")
**unbrok3npp**. You’re new here, so no warning this time. You have essentially opened two identical threads. I’ve closed this one. The previous one stays open. Don’t do this again. **samclem** GQ moderator