I love Fresh Beauty and the Black Tea line is one of my favorites from the brand. One of the most recent additions to the Black Tea line is the Black Tea Firming Eye Serum. Details per Fresh:
A fluid eye gel that provides a corset-like effect to the delicate eye area for a firmer, lifted look. Brewed with our black tea complex and an eye-defining peptide, this refreshing gel provides a corset-like effect to the eyes for a firmer, lifted look. The illuminating treatment will reshape your view on eye care—with signs of under-eye baggage, fine lines, and crow’s feet all minimized. The result is eyes that appear younger, radiant, and wide awake.
Key Ingredients
- A proprietary black tea complex helps to improve skin elasticity.
- A dual-action eye-defining peptide helps reduce the look of eye bags while smoothing the eye contour for a more defined look.
- Goji fruit extract helps improve firmness and protect skin’s youthful-looking bounce.
- Uji tea extract works to calm and comfort.
Directions After cleansing, gently press onto the eye area morning and night. Follow with an eye cream, such as our Black Tea Age-Delay Eye Concentrate.
First off I love the packaging of this. It's a nice deep bronze glass pump. The serum has a nice thin gel hydrating texture. It sinks right in and leaves behind a nice moisture barrier. I like to apply my eye serums right after cleansing and toning before any other layers or skincare serums. The idea is that you're allowing the product designed for the eye area to work in it's designated spot. If you apply it after five layers of serums and creams then the targeted eye treatment may not do all it's supposed to. Mostly because it's sitting on top of all those layers. You generally want to use your more active products first in your routine then cover up with hydrating serums and oils. I try to also apply my eye creams before other layers after my eye serum has set in.
I do find this has made a difference for me in how effective an eye product is. Now there would be the exception of some treatments like the water light Biologique Recherche serums that you can pat under the eye area for dark circles like Placenta, you should be able to apply that first to both face and eyes then do the eye serum/cream. I learned this from Caroline Hirons and it's good practical advice. This serum has a really light fragrance nothing that noticeable. This eye serum has a black tea complex which is rich in antioxidants and helps firm the skin. Goji fruit is also similar in action to the black tea. This also has hydrators like glycerin, jojoba oil esters & coconut glycerides plus vitamin E, lychee fruit extract and blackberry leaf extract. The peptide Acetyl Tetrapeptide-5 has soothing, calming, hydrating and firming benefits.
I loved the hydrating slip of this serum and the light hydration it gives. If you don't have dry eyes like me you could probably get away with just this alone, especially in the daytime. I however have super dry eyes now that I'm older and I need more than an eye serum. I loved the plump and firm feeling this gave my eye area while using. It really does help with firming. Writing this makes me want to pull it out again. It was definitely an eye serum I would repurchase for hydration & firming.
Ingredients
Aqua (Water), Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Pentylene Glycol, Jojoba Oil PEG-150 Esters, Methyl Gluceth-20, PEG-6 Caprylic/Capric Glycerides, Acacia Senegal Gum, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Lycium Chinense Fruit Extract, Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Rubus Fruticosus (Blackberry) Leaf Extract, Litchi Chinensis Seed Extract, Acetyl Tetrapeptide-5, Tocopheryl Acetate, Tocopherol, Polymethylsilsesquioxane, Carbomer, PEG-150, Sorbitol, Sodium Hydroxide, Parfum (Fragrance), Rhizobian Gum, Maltodextrin, Algin, Xanthan Gum, Adenosine, Polyvinyl Alcohol, Cellulose Gum, Citric Acid, Sodium Metabisulfite, Diamond Powder, Sodium Benzoate, Potassium Sorbate, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Sodium Citrate, Biotin, Phenoxyethanol, Linalool, Citronellol, Geraniol
*gifted by brand but all thoughts are my own
