Most clean eye creams are useless unless they have a real purpose. But if you’re curious to know which eye products I actually trust, I’ve rounded up my favorite natural and organic eye creams, serums and oils that are made with clean ingredients. These eye creams aren’t just glorified moisturizers and can help with wrinkles, crows feet, dark circles, and more.

The skin around the eyes is the first to give away our age as it’s so much thinner than the rest of our faces — plus it loses moisture 50% faster than the rest of our skin. From our teenage years we develop dark circles and puffiness from late nights studying, and as we age, we develop wrinkles, dryness and saggy bags. My personal favorite, the hollowing of the under eyes that’s genetic and can only be fixed with cosmetic procedures.

My personal opinion is that majority of eye creams are just glorified moisturizers packaged in smaller jars. I do think that using your nicest face cream or oil is going to do the same, if not better, than your standard eye cream. But still, there are some great eye products on the market formulated with special actives that the delicate eye area might need.

My personal preference is to use eye serums as serums are formulated to penetrate and deliver actives, or to go the other extreme of using highly occlusive eye oils or balms. But since everyone wants an eye cream, I’ve also included my top picks of the eye creams I’ve experienced. Check out my picks for the best organic eye creams and serums in 2022.

 

Odacite Eye Contour Serum Concentrate (Oil)

• One of my favorites to use as an eye oil: Highly concentrated and comes with a rollerball
• Targets puffiness, wrinkles and dark circles
• Cold-pressed virgin-extracted (to ensure the highest nutrient content) Baobab Oil from Senegal
• Sarsaparilla Essential Oil sourced in India
• Powered by Vitamins A, E and F

Banish Instant Lift Brightening Eye Creme

• This organic eye cream is absolutely packed to the brim with ingredients known to brighten, reduce eye circles, and increase collagen in the skin
• Rich freshly made kind of consistency
• Made fresh in California with organic ingredients
• For collagen enhancing: MSM, Matrixyl 3000, CoQ10, ProVitamin B5
• For brightening: Vitamin C, Licorice, Lactic, Glycolic, and Phytic Acid
• For lifting: Green Tea, Peptides, Witch Hazel
• For hydrating: Plant Based Hylauronic Acid, Squalane, Glycerin
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Odacite Intense Repair Eye Cream

• This new eye cream from Odacite is loaded with Super Antioxidant CoQ10, Peptides and Carnosine
• In a hydrating aloe leaf juice base
• For those who don’t like the feel of an eye cream – it sinks in immediately

Indie Lee I-Waken Eye Serum

• Weightless, thin serum for those who can’t handle rich creams on their undereyes
• Helps hydrate and revitalize skin
• Great for easy daytime use and under makeup
• Contains Hyaluronic Acid, Horse Chestnut, Mountain Ash Bud and Witch Hazel combined with Chamomile, Arnica and Cornflower, Spirulina, Blackcurrant Leaf
• No essential oils
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Naturopathica Passionfruit Retinol Ageless Eye Serum

• Silky lightweight serum
• Helps improve the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles and reduce the look of dark circles and puffines
• Powered by retinol delivered in a clean, synergistic base
• Antioxidant passion fruit, oat kernel extract, horse chestnut seed extract, beta-glucan
• Targeted peptide specifically for the eye area

Kaelen Harwell Dark Circle Reducing Cacao Espresso Eye Cream

• Silky oil-cream
• Helps with dark circles, puffiness, dryness
• Contains hyaluronic acid, lavender, blue-green algae, calendula, rooibos & pomegranate extracts and evening primrose
• Coffee extract, cacao powder and caffeine powder
• Smells like a shot of espresso
• Remember to shake well before use as the product doesn’t contain synthetic binders

100% Pure Super Fruit Oil Nourishing Eye Cream

• Lightweight, silky smooth
• Focus on antioxidants from a plethora of superfruits (Acai, Goji, Plum, Elderberry, Acerola)
• Helps with elasticity, fine lines and wrinkles
• Made in a base of organic pomegranate water and infused with avocado butter and coffee oil
• Sweet earthy scent from vetiver, Cedarwood, Sage, bergamot
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African Botanics Eye Contour Gel Serum

• Hyper luxe eye serum
• Ceramides, Coffee, Copper, Lupine Oligosaccharides, Yeast Beta-Glucan, Vitamin B3, Vitamin C, Arnica and fucoidan-rich Seaweed extract
• Thick gel that’s unscented and deeply hydrating
• Helps with fine lines and puffiness

 

Cocokind Revitalizing Eye Cream (Budget)

• For a tight budget or young skin
• True cream consistency
• Hydrating, soothes, reduces the appearance of bags and dark circles
• Contains Persian Silk Tree for puffiness and fine lines, oat extract to lock in hydration, and hibiscus flower acids (natural source of AHAs) to gentle exfoliate
• Cooling metal rollerball tip for application
• No scent
• Thoughtfully formulated and pleasant to use for under $20
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Whamisa Organic Flowers Eye Essence

• Smooth creamy essence-lotion
• 95% organic and made in base of organic aloe juice
• Contains Ecocert organic adenosine and gluconolactone to improve skin texture and dullness
• Uses fermentation filtrates of organic flowers, hence the name, like chrysanthemum, lotus, dandelion. with Lacto-fermentation (Whamisa’s signature ‘Natural Fermentation Technology’)
• Contains Murumuru Seed Butter, Candelilla Wax, Green Tea Seed Oil, Green Tea Leaf Extract
• Floral scent
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Nazan Schnapp Sublime Hydration Eye Serum (Hyper-Luxe)

• Light silky serum
• Helps hydrate and revitalize
• Made with organic Rose de Mai, organic Hibiscus Extract, organic Aloe Leaf Juice, Pomegranate Enzyme, Beet Root Extract and Rose Quartz
• Features a special species of desert plant, known as the “resurrection plant
• Divine Rose scent
• Hyper-luxe with clientele that includes Emma Watson
• SAVE: Discount code OBL saves 20%

Dr Different Retinol Eye & Neck Cream (Balm)

• Emollient balm (not a cream like name suggests)
• Natural K-beauty brand that focuses on retinal (better than retinol)
• Gentle 0.02% retinal helps with fine lines and wrinkles
• Niacinamide helps brighten dull skin
• Should be used at night only
• No scent

Puristry Yerba Mate Eye Cream

• Silky lightweight cream
• Helps with signs of aging such as lines, wrinkles, and loss of firmness
• Caffeine rich yerba mate helps to brighten dark circles and reduce puffiness.
• Made in a base of organic Yerba mate water as first ingredient
• Sweet earthy scent from Cedarwood, Vetiver, Sage, Lavender
• Continuously sold out on their site

Natural & Organic Eye Masks

For a quick pick-me-up, check out some of the best natural and organic eye masks.

Best Anti-Aging Eye Mask: Juice Beauty Stem Cellular Instant Eye Lift Algae Mask

• Two-step process allowing the STEM CELLULAR™ Activator Fluid and nutrient rich freeze-dried biomatrix algae masks to perform at the highest level of potency
• Eye pads are made of freeze dried algae
• Made with certified organic ingredients
• Reduces the appearance of puffiness around eyes with organic cucumber, white tea, and arnica extracts.
• Hydrates with hyaluronic acid
• The most instant hydration and brightening effect I’ve experienced with an eye mask
• $10 for 1 mask

Best Affordable Clean Eye Mask: Grace & Stella Energy Drink Eye Masks

• This eye mask actually works and only costs $30 for 24 pairs
• It has Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein to pump and firm, Hyaluronic Acid for fine lines and Chondrus Crispus Powder for dark circles

Best Hydrating Eye Mask: 100% Pure Bright Eyes Mask

• Hydrogel masks made with mostly organic aloe juice
• Contains Vitamin C, Green Tea, Yerba Mate and Hyaluronic Acid for a refreshing pick-me-up
• $30 for 6 masks

Best Tight Budget Eye Mask: Derma E Hydro Gel Patches

• Thin, jelly-like hydrogel patches for quick hydration
• Made in a base of water and contains Allantoin, Vitamin C, Niacinamide, Sodium Hyaluronate, Cabbage Lead Extract, Coconut Fruit Extract, Tomato Fruit Extract
• 60 patches for $25