Aurelia Probiotic Eye Cream Review

It's a sad day when you realize you're not "young" anymore. Several things happen before this dawns on you: you no longer enjoy late nights out, sleeping in doesn't feel productive, healthy food actually starts tasting good, late night eating=belly in the morning and the dark circles under your eyes no longer go away. Oh, and the wrinkles that appear when you smile, decide to stay AFTER you're done smiling. AHHHHH.

I've been using eye creams since my early twenties.  A saleswoman once told me "with eyes, prevention is key," because once the wrinkles come, they don't go home. I've tried TONS of eye creams over the past decade (La Mer, Guerlain, Origins, Restorsea, Perricone, Kinerase, DermaDoctor, etc.) and liked some of them to varying degrees and didn't care for others. I don't think I appreciated the prevention they provided since I was younger and the skin around my eyes was younger too. I'm graduating out of my early thirties into "mid-thirties" soon, so a good eye cream is essential. Now that I've transitioned everything over to cleaner skin care, I found my biggest challenge was finding a good eye cream. 

I did my research and decided to try Aurelia Probiotic Eye Duo--this comes with two separate eye creams (one rollerball serum eye dew for AM and an eye cream for PM). The duo was about $140, which is a lot more than I typically would spend on an eye cream (except for my La Mer and Guerlain splurges), but then I divided it by two, since you get two eye creams out of it, and this made my decision a bit easier (I often trick myself like this to justify buying things I want to try). Seventy dollars is still expensive, but I was really curious to see what this eye cream could deliver.

I've been using this duo for a little over two months and I do really enjoy the products. I like the PM eye cream more than the day serum, so sometimes I'll use the PM cream in the AM over the serum. It's very hydrating and softens up the lines under my eyes, at least for a little bit. I can't fight nature and I'm not going to stop smiling, so this is the best I can do for now. Did I mention it has a lovely smell? Not like scents matter much if the thing works, but it's a nice benefit.

Pros:

-cream is very hydrating
-uses actives, botanicals and probiotics to help fight wrinkles and dark circles
-rollerball has a cooling effect
-pleasant scent

Cons:
-price

EWG Skin Deep Score:

PM Illuminate & Smooth Puff Reduction Eye Cream: 3

AM Revitalise & Brighten Eye Dew: 3

Here's a blurb from their website about the products:

Supporting the skin’s defence system with supercharged levels of probiotics and peptides is essential for radiant and youthful skin. Aurelia Probiotic Skincare’s technology uses immune modulatory glycoproteins to generate targeted impulses within the skin, balancing stress-damaged skin whilst stabilising the skin’s defence system. Aurelia works to protect against skin ageing, regenerates cell metabolism, prevents cellular DNA damage and is proven to counteract the effects of UV damage to collagen and elastin.

Our eye complex has been scientifically proven to result in an age correction improvement of 5 years in just 28 days of use. Specifically targeting wrinkle depth, the potent complex adds to Aurelia’s powerful scientifically proven technologies. Aurelia Probiotic Skincare prides itself on its beautiful mix of science and natural luxury. All products are free from synthetic fragrances, parabens, mineral oils, silicones, sulphates, propylene glycol, phthalates, GMO, PEGs, TEA and DEA. We never tested on animals.

My daily skin care regiment

**Update: I've updated my skincare to only use more natural products, so this regiment is null. Click here if you'd like to see my current regiment!**

I've gotten a request to blog about what my current skin care regiment is, so here it is.

**I did want to say that this regiment may be changing, as I'm currently looking into healthier, synthetic/preservative free cosmetics that score low on the EWG.org/skindeep website.  I'm doing lots of research, ordering samples of stuff and trying them out, and seeing what the effects will be before I write about them. =)

Morning:
-Cleanse with Benefit Clean by Cosmedix (I like this because it cleans well and doesn't irritate my skin)
-Tone with Mystic by Cosmedix (it's supposed to be a hydrating spray treatment, but i spritz a cotton pad 3-4x with this stuff and use it as a toner--has witch hazel in it which has some antibacterial properties!)
-Apply 3 drops of Obagi Vitamin C serum 10% all over face
-Moisturize with Emulsion by Cosmedix
-Apply DermaDoctor Wrinkle Revenge eye cream with your fourth finger (this actually has a lot of parabens in it, which is a preservative, but I already bought it and have been using it for a month. I'll have to find one with no preservatives very soon.)
-Apply Reflect SPF 30 sunscreen from Cosmedix.  This comes in a spray form so I spray it into my hand 3-4x and apply to my face.   **This sunscreen only contains Titanium Dioxide, and may not protect you from longer UVA rays.  I'm currently looking for a good sunscreen with Zinc Oxide in it to protect me from long UVA rays.  I'll let you know how that goes.)


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Evening:
-If I wore face make up, I remove my makeup with a CVS makeup removing cloth prior to cleansing with Benefit Clean by Cosmedix.
-Tone with Mystic by Cosmedix
-Apply less than a pea size amount of Define by Cosmedix (this is my lactic acid and retinol over night treatment) on problem areas.
-Moisturize with Emulsion by Cosmedix
-Apply DermaDoctor Wrinkle Revenge eye cream

So you must be wondering....why is everything I use from Cosmedix?  I started off by purchasing a starter kit from them when I went to this esthetician in Newport Beach.  She convinced me into starting a retinol treatment at night instead of using my salicylic acid on blemishes at night (this left my skin really dry).  I was super scared to because I didn't want to deal with the purge period (where it brings out your zits before it starts making your skin better), but I never had that problem with Define.  Just make sure if you start it, you start slowly.  Apply 1x every 3 days for the first week, then apply 1x every 2 days for a week, then you can try applying it every evening.  But if your skin gets sensitive or reacts to it, I would lessen the number of days you use it.  I really liked Define and the Benefit Clean, so I tried the lotion and the sunscreen because none of it made me break out.  A lot of other products I've tried either broke me out or just weren't doing anything for me.  I've had this routine for about the past 1.5 years and it's really been working for me.  Benefit Clean scored a 3 on the website, which isn't that bad.  So I may keep that.  The define scored a 5 or 6, but any retinol product will get you at least that score, because retinols are a pretty strong chemical.

Healthier skin care product reviews to come!!