It's entirely possible that a topical product, along with allergy pills and a change in sleeping position will reduce the appearance of these bags and dark circles. If you suffer from allergies or sleep on your stomach/side, the blood vessels become congested, causing (you guessed it) puffiness and dark circles.
So a topical product won't fix those dark circles. Shadows make these sunken areas look dark.
This can result in "tear troughs" or a hollow look under the inner corners of the eyes. For instance, as we age, we lose fat (which in this case isn't a good thing!), bone, and collagen under our eyes. These can be caused by a lot of different things, which means certain products may not work for everyone. EGCG is Epigallocatechin Gallatyl Glucoside, which comes from green tea, and can help reduce puffiness and dark circles.įirst, let's talk a little about puffiness and dark circles.
#THE ORDINARY CAFFEINE SOLUTION SKIN#
I'm sure just about everyone knows or can guess why caffeine is used in skin care products - it can reduce the appearance of cellulite - or in the case of the eye area, puffiness. (Full disclosure: I'm not affiliated with The Ordinary or the parent company, Deciem, and I have purchased all products myself. I've been using several of their products the past few months, and today, I'm talking about my experience with their Caffeine Solution 5% + EGCG serum.
#THE ORDINARY CAFFEINE SOLUTION FREE#
You are free to use the links or not - if you do, I thank you!) If you click on an affiliate link and make a purchase, I will receive a small commission (at no extra cost to you). Overall, soybean extract is a promising and multi-functional active, a nice addition to most ingredient lists.(This post may contain affiliate links which were added to make it easier for you to find the items. There is also some promising, but as yet not in-vivo (done on real people), research that soybean extract can stimulate both elastin and collagen synthesis and thus lead to healthier, younger-looking skin. Topical estrogen is known to decrease skin thinning and collagen loss and soy might be able to do the same, especially during and after menopause when natural estrogen levels run low. These isoflavones are also the ones that make soy a phytoestrogen, meaning they have a (weak) estrogenic effect. Genistein is also proven to inhibit UV induced redness in human skin. The most famous and bioactive flavonoids in soybeans are the isoflavones called genistein and diadzein that have potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. This is useful for most pigmentation situations but, if you have melasma, soy is not for you as melasma is estrogen-mediated and soy is a well-known phytoestrogen. Regarding skin pigmentation, the soybean extract works by hindering melanosome transfer, meaning it blocks the melanin pigment from traveling up to the surface of the skin and becoming visible there. Even though some of its effects are more hyped up than backed up, it is still a nice to have on many ingredient lists. Overall, we think that caffeine is a very versatile and biologically active ingredient. A 2017 study compared a 0.2% caffeine liquid with a 5% Minoxidil (an FDA approved active to treat baldness) solution and found that " a caffeine-based topical liquid should be considered as not inferior to minoxidil 5% solution in men with androgenetic alopecia", or English translation means that the caffeine liquid was pretty much as good as the FDA-approved Minoxidil stuff. We have found some recent and promising research to back this up.
The theory is that it can inhibit the activity of the 5-α-reductase enzyme that plays an important role in hair loss and allows a renewed growth phase of the hair. Last, but not least, we have to write about caffeine and hair growth. But here again, the evidence that it actually makes a measurable, let alone visible, improvement on actual human beings is limited (we could find only some animal skin studies or caffeine being combined with other actives). In theory, it can speed up the lipolysis process (the "fat burning" by our cells) and stimulate the draining lymph system that might lead to the improvement of cellulite. Though conventional wisdom and anecdotal evidence says that this property is helpful for dark under-eye circles and puffy eyes, we have to mention that the double-blind research we have found about a 3% caffeine gel concluded that " the overall efficacy of the selected caffeine gel in reducing puffy eyes was not significantly different from that of its gel base." But you know, the proof is in the pudding.Īnother thing Caffeine is used for in body care products is its anti-cellulite effects. A well-known thing about Caffeine is that it improves the microcirculation of the blood vessels.
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