The 15 Best Eye Creams for Men in 2023, According to Experts

Swipe this around your peepers at night to help reduce the look of fine lines and wrinkles that make you look tired. The retinal in the formula goes to work quickly—our testers saw a difference after just a few uses. No wonder it received a 2023 Men's Health Grooming Award.

It’s not cheap, but just a dab applied at night clears up any signs of vampire eyes the next morning. Credit the mighty combination of lactic acid and vitamin C. Our testers loved how easily it absorbs into the skin, and saw less tired-looking eyes after two weeks of using it.

Winner of our 2022 Men's Health Grooming Awards, this peptide and caffeine-packed gel instantly cools and perks up your eye area so you look more awake (perfect to rub on before your first meeting of the day) and it absorbs quickly so you’re not left with shiny eyes.

Effective eye creams don’t need to break the bank. This multi-purpose eye cream contains all the ingredients you want in an eye cream like niacinamide, hyaluronic acid, ceramides to help reduce puffiness and dark circles and keep the skin around your eyes hydrated and happy. Our testers loved how it solved a bunch of different skin issues, at a price point that's hard to beat. Though one tested noted that the formula can feel heavy.

Our twenty-something testers gave top marks on this drugstore eye cream. After all all-night ragers, workplace stress, relationship drama—can all show up on even younger faces. Tired skin is usually dehydrated, which shows up as bags and dark circles. In your twenties, it’s important to keep the skin around your eyes well-hydrated. It could mean you look like you got 9 hours of sleep when you actually got three. Though our older testers said this eye cream wasn't strong enough to address more severe dark circles and wrinkles.

This ultra-hydrating yet still lightweight gel formula is packed with niacinamide to help reduce discoloration under your eyes, caffeine to increase circulation and perk up tired eyes, and peptides to help reduce puffiness. One tester noted that after a night out of partying, this helped refresh his dehydrated, hungover eyes the next morning.

The thin skin around your eyes could be especially sensitive, so if you have sensitive skin on the rest of your face, opt for a formula with minimal additives that could irritate your eyes. This cream contains rice extracts and aloe, which are shown to minimize redness and irritation, but still moisturize.

Just like your morning cup o' Joe, this easy-to-apply gel contains caffeine to wake up your peepers after a long night. It quickly de-puffs the under-eye area to make them look more alert and uses the power of Vitamin B3 to reduce dark circles. Use the eye gel after a sleepless night or long flight to easily reset your face. Though some testers say the scent is a bit too strong to use.

Rich in both hyaluronic acid and antioxidants, this lightweight eye gel is an ideal daily eye cream to improve the look of your eye area quickly. But where it really shines is its tightening effect, which is tailor-made to improve under eye bags by make the skin around your eyes appear more taught and smooth. One tester loves its tightening feature, which feels like it's really firming up and hydrating your skin.

Retinol is an important ingredient, but it can be irritating if you have sensitive skin or haven’t used it before. This creamy gel serum contains retinol, but is less likely to cause irritation. It’s perfect for retinol first-timers and established pros alike and helps smooth signs of aging fast. Though just like most retinol products, this might be too strong for some guys with sensitive skin.

This powerful eye cream is ideal to address a variety of issues from bags to wrinkles, but it’s especially good if your problem is dark circles. It’s high in vitamin C, an antioxidant that will brighten dark circles and protect against future damage, but still gentle enough to use around the sensitive eye area. It’s both dermatologist and ophthalmologist approved.

When it comes to eye cream, the last thing you want is something that makes your eyes feel heavy and greasy. This rich cream is surprisingly lightweight and sinks in quickly with hardly any residue. Plus, it’s fragrance-free to minimize potential irritation on the sensitive eye area and it still contains retinol to help with anti-aging.

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Just a little of this rich-yet-lightweight cream goes a long way. It’s specifically designed to target wrinkles all over your eye area, even the deeper ones. It’s also incredibly hydrating and helps not only improve the look of dark circles and under eye bags, but helps protect the skin as well, thanks to an anti-pollution complex in the formula. Testers say they saw an immediate improvement around their eye area within hours.

Sun damage is one of the biggest causes of skin aging, but eye creams don’t typically have UV protection built-in (you should be wearing sunscreen every day regardless). If you tend to miss your eye area when you apply sunscreen or worry that you’re not getting enough protection, this mineral sunscreen is specially formulated for the sensitive eye area. Though some testers with darker skin tones note that this tint didn't blend well with their shade.

It’s hard to reverse changes to your eye area once you’ve already seen them start happening, unless of course you use this eye cream. It not only reduces puffiness and the appearance of bags almost immediately, but the more you use it, the more signs of aging like fine lines and wrinkles diminish.