Kiehl’s Avocado Eye Cream Is Soothing, Hydrating, and Under $40

Perhaps the most important addition you can make to your skincare routine to be cold weather-ready? Eye cream. A good eye cream is gentle, hydrating, and nourishing—but bonus points if it also helps to prevent and smooth fine lines and wrinkles around the delicate eye area. 

As you start preparing for the season of snow, holiday parties, and more time spent indoors, consider investing in a luxuriously hydrating eye cream, like the Kiehl’s Avocado Eye Cream, a paraben- and fragrance-free formula that’ll keep your eyes happy all winter long. It would also make a perfect present or stocking stuffer for your mom, friend, or sister, since it’s sensitive skin-approved. 

Kiehl’s Creamy Avocado Eye Treatment

If you’re looking for the perfect under-eye cream to round out your winter skincare routine, this one from Kiehl’s is a great pick. Its main differentiator is the avocado oil, which has a rich, emollient texture and moisturizes, nourishes, and softens skin. But the eye cream also has other stellar ingredients to support such a delicate area of your face: beta carotene (an antioxidant typically found in red and orange veggies, like carrots) to protect your skin from damage, and sodium PCA, which is a key component in your skin’s natural moisture—it’s a humectant that helps bind moisture to your skin and keep it hydrated for longer. It also has caffeine, which helps to “wake up and energize the eye area.” 

Though it’s a thicker cream formula, the eye treatment provides an instant “burst of hydration” when you apply it. Thanks to the unique ‘water-in-oil’ formula, when you start to massage the cream into your skin, the oil breaks and releases the water, giving you an instant feeling of hydration (and an immediately visible texture difference). This also helps provide a lasting level of hydration, so if you plan to use the eye cream in the morning (it would make a great primer for under-eye makeup, too), just give yourself extra time to let it absorb. 

The eye cream is easy to apply: just scoop a small (Kiehl’s recommends rice grain-sized) amount of the product onto your ring finger. Rub between your two ring fingers to activate the water-in-oil hydration, then gently tap around your eye area. You can use it morning and night, and luckily, it’s a concentrated formula that’s made not to migrate, so you won’t have to worry about it moving around and ending up in your eyes (yikes). The formula is also ophthalmologist- and dermatologist-tested for safety, and works for all skin types, including sensitive skin. 

This is a customer-favorite eye cream that tends to stick within people’s skincare routines: “I’ve been using this avocado eye cream for years,” one shopper wrote. “It’s one of those products I just keep coming back to, even after trying out some of the more expensive creams. The thing is, this stuff just works really well for my sensitive skin,” the reviewer continued, adding it gives them “all-day moisture” and feels “super gentle and nourishing when I apply it.” They also love that it “sinks in quickly without leaving behind any greasy residue. And I’ve noticed it helps smooth out those fine lines and wrinkles around my eyes, too.” 

Shoppers also love how it “works to reduce puffiness around the eyes,” and thanks to the soothing and hydrating ingredients, some have even found that it heals irritation and sensitivity from retinol. 

This avocado eye cream is the perfect nourishing, smoothing option to soothe your eye area this winter. Kiehl’s has lots of hydrating skincare options to offer—check out the rest of our winter-ready skincare picks from the brand below. 

Kiehl’s Avocado Nourishing Hydration Mask

Kiehl’s Facial Fuel Stimulating Eye Treatment Cream

Kiehl’s Intensive Treatment and Moisturize

Kiehl’s Super Multi-Corrective Eye Zone Treatment Cream 

Kiehl’s Ultra Facial Cream