Omorovicza launched a new eye cream last year. Illumineye C combines vitamin C with retinal for a powerful eye treatment. Details per Omorovicza:
Powered by vitamins C, A & E, Illumineye C brightens, smooths and hydrates the eye contour. This rich and velvety treatment helps diminish dark circles and puffiness and reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. The result? A smooth and revived eye contour, with skin’s natural radiance restored.
The texture is thick and rich. It’s a water in oil emulsion so it has this rich yet really velvety texture. For my severe dry under eyes it’s totally enough for nights. The packaging is frosted orange glass with an airless pump. It’s the airless pump with a bag type. The bag empties & flattens as you use it. The eye cream has no discernible scent. Omorovicza uses a Hungarian lab to make their vitamin C products (they may use it for all their products but I’m not privy to that information). This Hungarian lab was supposedly instrumental in figuring out how to synthesize vitamin C effectively in topical cosmetic use. I never knew that until I attended the Zoom meeting for this product launch.
This eye cream uses a precursor of vitamin C (ascorbyl tetraisopalmitate) which converts into vitamin C once absorbed into the epidermis. Vitamin C derivatives such as this are more gentle and have less irritation. Vitamin C helps with reduction in pigmentation, antioxidant protection and helps stimulate collagen production. Illumineye C also has retinal or retinaldehyde which is a stable less irritating retinoid. It converts into retinoic acid by our bodies. Retinoids or vitamin A stimulates collagen production, speeds up cellular turnover, smooths texture and helps reduce lines and wrinkles. This also has hyaluronic acid filling spheres, antioxidant elderberry flower extract, moisturizers such as polysaccharides, polyglutamic acid and hyaluronic acid plus nourishing phospholipids, sphingosines, ceramides and lipids. It also has Omorovicza’s patented Healing Concentrate (also uses that Hungarian lab to give the minerals in the water a delivery system that brings it into the skin).
I love the velvety rich texture it’s quite nice. It doesn’t feel greasy or heavy at all. I feel like this does brighten the eye area, it doesn’t solve my dark circles but honestly nothing does (heredity, skin shape and lifestyle) so I’m not the one to really ask on that. It did help with my lines and wrinkles, hydrating and plumping. So if you know me at all you know Omorovicza works really great for my skin. Oddly this is one of the first products that I didn’t get along with from the brand. It caused irritation and sensitivity to my eye area, possibly from dryness under the eye? I’m not 100% sure. I have a hard time with retinol in the eye area at times and maybe this one was too potent, can’t say for sure. I do know I used it, stopped it, used it, stopped it. When I stop and uses another eye cream that sore dry feeling stops, when I start it up it comes back. I’ve had that happen with other brands and eye products in the past so I just learned that’s what eye sensitivity feels like to a certain product for me. I have very dry under eyes and they can get very sensitive to certain products which causes a raw like sore irritation feel. I did love the velvety texture though. Very nice. I think it’s a great product, just didn’t work for me.
Ingredients
Aqua (Hungarian Thermal Water), Glycerin, Coco-Caprylate/Caprate, Ascorbyl Tetraisopalmitate, Shea Butter Ethyl Esters, Nylon-11 (100% natural), Xylitylglucoside, Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate, Tri (Polyglyceryl-3/Lauryl) Hydrogenated Trilinoleate, Saccharomyces (Hungarian Thermal Water) Ferment Extract, Anhydroxylitol, Dipalmitoyl Hydroxyproline, Magnesium Sulfate, Algae Extract, Propanediol, Benzyl Alcohol, Lactobacillus, Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Oil, Oryza Sativa (Rice) Starch, Cyclodextrin, Polyglyceryl-3 Polyricinoleate, Xylitol, Glycogen, Arnica Montana Flower Extract, Hyaluronic Acid, Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Palmitic Acid, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Fruit Extract, Glucose, Sambucus Nigra (Elderberry) Flower Extract, Polyglyceryl-3 Ricinoleate, Sodium Polyglutamate, Phospholipids, Rubus Chamaemorus (Cloudberry) Seed Oil, Pentylene Glycol, Retinal, Bacillus Ferment, Lonicera Caprifolium (Honeysuckle) Flower Extract, Lonicera Japonica (Honeysuckle) Flower Extract, Citric Acid.
*Gifted by brand, all thoughts are my own. The cooling globes on the pictures were gifted and are not a regular sales item.