Most beauty or youth creams on the market don't work. Plastic surgeons have to inject collagen or synthetic collagen substitutes into the face to refresh and fill in your face including the delicate area around the eye. But a product called Hydroderm seems to have found a scientific way to deliver collagen molecules beneath the skin. Other products claim to contain collagen but the collagen molecule is too big to penetrate the skin as a topical application and they don't work. Another product based on recent scientific research is K-Derm developed at the French government's National Research Lab that has found a way to make fibrous elastin soluble for penetration into the skin (a type of highly soluble elastin called Kappa Elastin). You can order it from Europe and every Mexican pharmacy carries it. Replenishment of collagen and elastin which is lost over time can go a long way towards giving a person a fuller and more youthful face including the eyes. There are several books on the market describing a facial exercise program for building the facial muscles that atrophy as we grow old, including the muscles around the eye, like the book "Facercise". And I think a healthy lifestyle including exercise (that stimulates anti-aging growth hormone in the body), adequate sleep, and refraining from smoking or excessive food are important. One of the theories of aging is that of glycosylation, by which sugar molecules attach and permanently bind and crosslink with proteins, which has the effect of rendering the collagen and elastin we have less elastic (thus facial droop). One of the scientific anti-aging holy grails is to find a cross-link breaker to free up the collagen molecule but so far the only solution is to inhibit the development of new crosslinking of proteins. Keeping your blood sugar low through low weight, exercise, and avoidance of too many carbohydrates is important, and taking over-the-counter carnosine and benfotiamine inhibits crosslinking. The prescription diabetic drug metformin also helps, even if you don't have diabetes. Diabetes is a form of accelerated aging with glycosylation run amuck. And another theory of aging, including the skin of the face is the oxidative stress theory whereby free radicals from the air we breathe can damage your cells including your skin and muscles. Orally taking anti-oxidants like vitamin C, E, SOD, Co-Q 10 and others can help. You can make your own beauty cream cheaper and better yourself by buying antioxidants and combining them into skin super-penetrating DMSO cream available at any health food store. Rubbing the cream of a Co-Q 10 capsule into the skin around the eyes can improve the look of the skin. Also, taking about 6000 mg of collagen a day along with hyaluronic acid, silica tablets, oligonol, and phytoceramide tablets can improve the look of skin, hair, and nails. A new trend involves people buying electronic devices consisting of infra red light-emitting diodes covering pads that you apply to the face for 15 minutes a day that are supposed to cause mild trauma to the epidermis through their penetrating heat and make it accelerate the production of new skin cells, kind of a milder and slower form of the expensive laser skin treatments you would receive from a cosmetic surgeon.
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