The Glow Recipe Avocado Melt Retinol Eye Sleeping Mask is really the best eye cream product for dark circles as far as I’m concerned. But there have been other claims of this eye cream being effective for milia removal and depuffing of which I’ve reviewed to be not true for me, unfortunately.
Glow Recipe Avocado Melt Retinol Eye Sleeping Mask Review
I’ve been using the Glow Recipe Avocado Melt Retinol Eye Sleeping Mask for about 5 months now. I got it from my US trip last October and have been using it long enough by now for me to review this product in-depth.
Consistency/ Texture
This eye sleeping mask feels more like an eye cream. Most sleeping masks are more gooey and serum-like in texture as you need the product to bind over the skin better for it to work overnight. This Glow Recipe Avocado Melt Retinol Eye Sleeping Mask feels like whipped cream (the lite version); like whipped egg white way before you get it to stiff peaks.
Scent
It does not smell anything like avocados, especially since avocados generally do not give off any scent but a slight nutty aroma, if anything. This sleeping eye cream smells like cantaloupe in fact and I’m not complaining.
Retinol Eye Cream for Milia Removal
I’ve got milia seeds on my undereye areas for years, and frankly, when they’re left alone, sometimes they reduce in appearance on their own. But because there have been reports about retinol being the dream ingredient in skincare products for milia removal including the claims by the Glow Recipe founders of their Avocado Melt Retinol Eye Sleeping Mask , I’ve got to really check in on this, and it turns out not have worked for me in the milia removal department.
Glow Recipe or Kiehl’s Avocado Eye Cream?
Comparing the Glow Recipe Avocado Melt Retinol Eye Sleeping Mask to the Kiehl’s Avocado Eye Cream (Kiehl’s creamy eye treatment with avocado), the latter definitely feels richer, creamier and has a texture of a balm as opposed to an airier and moister feel of the Glow Recipe one. I gotta give credit to Glow Recipe for including squalene and hyaluronic acid to their formula, because usually products that contain retinol tend to be a little drying due to the faster cell renewal rate effect on the skin. While both eye creams give the much-needed hydration boost to my undereye areas, both made my milia seeds worse; the Kiehl’s avocado eye cream being the bigger culprit on that.
Works for Dark Circles (not Eye Bags) under eyes
While my whole life’s been stricken by puffiness and under eye wrinkles, I’m rather blessed with just a mild case of dark circles under my eyes no matter how little sleep I’ve been getting.
As for the bigger issue of eye bags that I have, I have yet to find a product to get rid of my eye bags even if I was willing to put in the effort of using it for long term. The closest I’ve gotten to remove my eye bags was from using Instantly Ageless, an eye cream that reduced my eye bags for a good 8 hours. Watch this video to see how this product works if you’re interested.
Back to the dark circles under my eyes, unlike most who have dark circles around the whole under eye area, mine is more like tinged lines outlining my eye bags going towards the inner corners of my eyes. As seen in the left photo below, I have darker rims belting under my eye bags as well as a darker rim just right below my lower lash. The way I tilted my face could have some of you go thinking it is just shadow cast (I couldn’t find a better shot than this), but I assure you they were dark, dull brown rims. So what the Glow Recipe Avocado Melt Retinol Eye Sleeping Mask does is apart from nourishing with the essential fatty acids in making the under eye skin firmer and suppler, the vitamin E and C from avocados as well as retinol it contains also help to improve blood flow.
The not so good part about this eye cream or eye sleeping mask as Glow Recipe markets it, includes having no effect on my puffy eyes and eye bags whatsoever, and on top of that, making the milia seeds worse with night use. If you have milia seeds and dark circles under eyes, I’d suggest you use it sparingly, or over only a few hours whenever it permits. I start my day rather late, usually around 11 am, and so the most I leave this eye cream on is 5 to 6 hours before my next shower. Applying it as an overnight sleeping mask doesn’t work for me because leaving the product longer often resulted in visibly bigger milia seeds which are harder for removal later.