Preventing eye wrinkles is relatively easy.  Since you want to prevent eye wrinkles, you also want to avoid irritation, allergic reactions and skin damage.  For eye wrinkle prevention, you have to be careful about make-up and creams that you use on and around your lids and lashes.

Ingredients to Avoid

Mineral oils, petrolatum and paraffin wax are ingredients in practically every cosmetic on the market, particularly the cheaper ones.  These petroleum derivatives clog the pores, cause ever increasing dryness and interfere with the skin’s natural rejuvenation process.

The body naturally produces new skin cells on a daily basis.  The process slows down somewhat with age, but other things interfere with the process, regardless of your age.

Preventing eye wrinkles (any wrinkle really) revolves around supporting that natural process.  When we stop producing new skin cells, our faces start to sag, wrinkling begins, the complexion dulls and we look older, in general.

The first stepis to protect the area around your eyes from the sun.
Your second stepto prevent eye wrinkles is to check your list of ingredients and stop using products that contain petrol based oils.

Step 1:  Preventing Eye Wrinkles

If you’re a tanner, you need to wear large sunglasses.  Your skin’s color may be lighter around your eyes.  But, if you really want to prevent eye wrinkles, you want that area to remain un-tanned, as much as possible.

There is another reason that wearing sunglasses is a good step towards preventing eye wrinkles.  If you don’t wear them regularly, you squint.  Habitual squinting plays a role in the formation of crow’s feet.  Those are the tiny lines that people get at the corners of their eyes.  Of course, you’re not going to get them, because you are going to take the necessary steps to avoid them.

In order to prevent eye wrinkles,you should choose sunglasses that block UV rays of light.  UV radiation from the sun increases the number of free radicals present in the skin’s cells.  If they get out of control, those radicals damage the cells, the collagens and even the cell’s DNA.  This damage causes wrinkling, sagging, the other signs of aging and skin cancer.

Step 2: Prevent Eye Wrinkles

To protect yourself from radical damage, you should use a daily gel or cream around your eyes (and on the rest of your face, actually) that is rich in antioxidants.  They are the only things that will effectively counter the radicals and prevent them from doing damage.

Overall, you will be most successful at preventing eye wrinkles, and other signs of aging, if you use an anti-oxidant cream during the day and another at night.  Most of the new skin cells are produced while you sleep.  A nourishing night-cream encourages the production of new cells, keeps your skin moist and helps prevent eye wrinkles.

Ingredients to look for include coenzyme Q10, natural vitamin E (not the synthetic type) and manuka honey enzymes.  All honey has some antioxidant activity, but the manuka variety is the most active and most effective for preventing eye wrinkles.

To summarize: To prevent eye wrinkles- (1) Watch your sun exposure.  Wear sunglasses that block UV rays of light.  Wear a hat.  (2) Use a daily cream or eye gel at night and during the day.Watch the ingredients.  For more details on eye wrinkle prevention   see the author box below. That should be enough info to get you started.- Margaret Bell