There’s a few skincare products I’m an absolute sucker for, cleansers and eye products. Eye products, because if anything is going to show how my day is going it will come through my eyes. Not my actual eyes but my under eyes. It’s probably the weakest area of my face that could do with seeing some improvements. So if I see a new eye product, and it has a decent set of ingredients and is affordable, I’m going to buy it. My recent eye product purchase was Dr Organic’s Ageless Eye Contour Serum from Home Bargains. So what is it like and why did I find it disappointing?
What is this product supposed to do?
Dr Organic’s Ageless Eye Contour Serum is for all skin types. Designed to smooth and firm the under eye area, by focusing on improving the look of fine lines and wrinkles.
Ingredients
Some ingredients included in this product are:
Aloe vera juice – soothing
Sunflower seed oil – hydrating, lightweight, soothing.
Seaweed extract – hydrating, soothing, can help with the signs of ageing.
Packaging
15ml of eye serum comes in a small, lidded glass pot. This comes boxed, with both having a very natural, health store look to it. Very pleasant on the eye.
Cost & size
15ml. This costs 99p in Home Bargains but if available (it might be discontinued) it would easily be around the £10.00 plus mark.
Consistency, look & fragrance
The colour of this serum is an off grey white. It’s opaque and not clear. Consistency is more eye cream like than serum. The fragrance… it smelt expired. It smelt like having a product sat in a drawer a few years too long. To my nose it just didn’t smell right.
On the under eyes
Using a small amount of this serum on the under eye area, I found it required more than tapping but lightly rubbing it in. No matter how much or how little I used, the product amount looked too much. It needed to be worked in because it just sat there. I didn’t enjoy applying it. The scent of it was off putting and I felt all other eye products I’ve used before applied better.
Looking at my under eye area, it looked no different, very matt in appearance. The feel? I felt as if I had applied something to it but it didn’t feel nourished, hydrated or soothed, which was disappointing. This is the bare minimum I expect from an eye product and this didn’t deliver even that.
Recommended?
This is a straight no for me. This is sad to write because I thought I got an amazing bargain here! The range of skincare products in this brand are good and a lot more expensive than 99p so I was excited. But everything about this eye serum was wrong. The colour, the scent, how it applied, lack of hydration and protective feel on the under eyes. All red flags to me. Was this bad luck? Is this product normally really good? Could this have been a bad batch or an old batch needed for the bin? Either way, I won’t be rebuying this and it wasn’t the best 99p I’ve ever spent!
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