Eye Puffiness

Doctors report that puffiness due to water retention during sleep disappears once you’re up and around. The body has great mechanisms for removing extra fluid. Other types of puffiness can be due to allergic reactions to pollen, makeup, hair and nail products, soap or moisturizer, puffiness from allergies can be treated, by monitoring product use and using antihistamines and other prescription medications under medical super vision.
Eye contour Balm “special” to its eye care line-up, specially formulated for very dry skin. It has a thicker consistency than the firm’s Eye Contour Balm, and it claims to soothe, moisturize and minimize fine lines. Last fall, Biotherm introduced a dual system for the eye area: the Tonicite Firming Eye Cream and Bio-Cils Soothing Eye Makeup Remover. The cream claims to tone up slackened skin while toning down bags, dark circles, puffiness and wrinkles.

The eye makeup remover dissolves eye makeup, but also calms and refreshes the area while gently reinforcing the cream’s benefits. Important function of many of the new products is their ability to soothe. Soothing and relaxing the area can fight environmental conditions that irritate our eyes and make us rub them.
There has been a suggestion, that stress causes the release of a hormone in the pituitary gland that causes dark circles under the eyes. Eliminate stress, get more sleep, and it should improve. Some dark circles are hereditary, but others have a lot to do with stress, tension, fatigue, working too hard. If you work out and take care of yourself, you can rid of some of them.
Get rid of dark circles by lightly massaging the area. It’s more like gentle pressure than a massage; it’s a very gentle process, using the third finger. No stretching at all. By improving blood circulation, you can reduce dark circles. Experts generally support this idea: if you can increase the blood flow in that area, which would help carry the pigment away, it might work. But the problem’s not well understood.
Ayurvedic healing methods from India for the light massage mix three drops of Bindi-blended essential oils-with seven drops of water and presses lightly from the outer corner inward. Doctors also recommend applying a pad that’s soaked in cold whole milk to soothe and moisten the eye area.
As for beauty sleep resting with head elevated on several pillows. Toxic fluids are less apt to accumulate around the eyes, she says, but sleeping with lots of pillows promotes a double chin.