The area around the eyes continues to interest many women. It is puffiness under the eyes and blue circles that mercilessly add to our age, and we become ten years older.

In order for cosmetics for the skin around the eyes to help, the composition of care products must contain ingredients such as caffeine, dextran sulfate, escin, nicotinamide, ascorbic acid, retinol, alpha-tocopherol, manganese, hyaluronic acid, vitamin K, bisabolol.

It is good when extracts, oils or extracts of such plants as blueberry, horse chestnut, butcher's broom, ginkgo biloba, green tea are included in cosmetics. Of course, not all at once. It all depends on the problems of the skin around the eyes, which may be swelling or bruising under the eyes, wrinkles or dryness….

The reasons for such problems have already been discussed more than once. If you do not take into account various diseases, then in addition to lack of sleep, overwork, ecology, there is also a genetic predisposition, which is expressed in insufficient elasticity of the capillaries or very thin skin in the eye area.




The most stringent requirements are imposed on cosmetics around the eyes. It should be delicate, as the skin in this area is thin and wrinkles appear here earlier than in other areas of the face. Therefore, when choosing cosmetics, you should already determine exactly what components you need and look for them in the composition of the product.

For example, nicotinamide (vitamin B3) nourishes the skin and saturates it with moisture, preventing wrinkles; ascorbic acid (vitamin C) helps the skin to produce protein - collagen, without which the skin loses its elasticity and dulls; manganese and dextran sulfate reduce puffiness and dark circles under the eyes; caffeine tones the skin, giving it a radiant and fresh look; escin is known for its vaso-strengthening properties, it is extracted from horse chestnut extract.

Manganese will help to normalize microcirculation, to strengthen blood vessels - vitamin K, which should be found not only in cosmetics, but also in food. In other words, to improve the condition of the skin, and in particular the skin in the eye area, you need a healthy lifestyle and proper nutrition. These last tips, if there are already bags and circles under the eyes, they will not be able to start working right away, it takes time. How to be?

Let's add some cosmetics. There are many effective active elements that can eliminate puffiness and circles under the eyes, and among them are dextran sulfate and escin.

Dextran

Dextrans are glucose polymers, they can be different, and their properties depend on it. Dextran can be obtained from sugar beets by fermentation (using bacteria). In cosmetology, dextran sulfate is most often used. Dextran sulfate prevents capillary rupture, resulting in bruising. Capillaries under the eyes often break through, and hemoglobin accumulates under the thin skin, which is visible to us like bruises under the eyes.

Our body is very wisely constructed. The protein-free part of the blood, and with it nutrients from the arteries, enters the tissues. In the venous part, the process should be reversed - the movement of the flow of fluid and with it substances from tissue cells into the blood. The inflow and outflow of fluid under physiological conditions must be in equilibrium. In our body, the balance is often disturbed due to various reasons for which we ourselves are to blame, then edema appears.

And edema, in other words, bags under the eyes, is the accumulation of extravascular fluid. The reasons, as we have already found out, can be many. One of them is a decrease in the concentration of proteins in the blood plasma, which leads to a decrease in oncotic pressure.

Dextran helps remove this fluid.The high oncotic pressure created by it in the blood causes the transfer of fluid from tissues to vessels, which ensures an increase in the volume of circulating blood and at the same time eliminates edema in the subcutaneous tissue.

With a decrease in the protein content in the blood, for example, due to starvation, there is an inverse difference in oncotic pressure between tissue fluid and blood. Then water rushes through the capillaries into the tissues, and this again causes swelling of the subcutaneous tissue. Dextran sulfate is highly soluble in water, so it is easy to add to cosmetics.

Escin in cosmetics

There is another active element that works successfully with dextran. This is the escin. Escin are organic compounds that are obtained from plants, mainly from the fruit of the horse chestnut. Escin perfectly strengthens the vascular walls, reducing the number of pores in the walls of the capillaries and their diameter.

In addition, it enhances the elasticity of the capillaries and increases the ability to conduct fluid, therefore, all excess that has accumulated in the tissues passes through the vessels, and the edema subsides. Its property is especially valuable - when applied to the skin, it quickly penetrates into cells without losing its effectiveness.

Thus, dextran sulfate and escin aids in the movement of fluid from tissues into the bloodstream.

When choosing a cosmetic product, you need to decide which effect is most important for you in order to choose cosmetics that will contain the necessary components. Do not forget that the condition of the skin depends not only on funds, but also on a healthy lifestyle. And your internal problems, stress, etc. are reflected primarily in the eyes. Therefore, sometimes the best and most expensive cosmetics can be powerless if these problems persist.

In conclusion, here are a few dextran sulfate-containing eye care products.

URIAGE EAU THERMALE SOIN D'EAU CONTOUR DES YEUX
URIAGE DEPIDERM BRIGHTENING EYE CONTOUR CARE
URIAGE AGE PROTECT CONTOUR DES YEUX MULTI-ACTIONS