COSRX

Advanced Snail Peptide Eye Cream.

Eye Care

About this product

A lightweight eye cream formulated with snail secretion filtrate and peptides, designed to hydrate and support the delicate under-eye area.

Full ingredients

Snail Secretion Filtrate, Butylene Glycol, Glycerin, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, 1,2-Hexanediol, Niacinamide, Water, Palmitic Acid, Arginine, Carbomer, Stearic Acid, Betaine, Cetearyl Olivate, Sorbitan Olivate, Sodium Polyacrylate, Allantoin, Tocopheryl Acetate, Panthenol, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Sodium Hyaluronate, Adenosine, Xanthan Gum, Myristic Acid, Copper Tripeptide-1, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7

Guru Score

79%

Yay

3 experts · Moderate agreement

3Gurus

3Yay

0Mixed

0Nay

What they liked

Lightweight texture suitable for daytime
Generous size compared to western eye creams
Works across the eye area and face

What they flagged

Peptides too dilute to be effective
Higher price per ml than comparable serums

What the gurus are saying

One expert named it a favorite hydrating eye cream and counts it among their most repurchased products ever. However, another found the peptide concentrations fall too low on the ingredient list to deliver meaningful benefit, especially for those over 37 seeking stronger active support. That means anyone banking on peptide performance may want to check the full ingredient order first and consider whether a higher-concentration formula suits their skin goals.

Synthesized from 3 expert reviews · most recent take March 2025

Best for

Dry skin Mature skin

Type

Eye CareCream

Key actives

Niacinamide Hyaluronic acidVitamin EPeptides

Formula notes

Fragrance-freeNo drying alcohol

Where to buy

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What the gurus are saying.

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No BS Beauty

89k subs

✓Yay

"This is probably my third or fourth tube of it, it's just wonderful. What I love about it is you can use it around your eyes for anti-aging and hydrating, but the bottle's big enough that if you're traveling and you don't want to bring the giant tube of snail mucin with you, you can just bring this instead. Most eye creams you don't get very much, this one's almost a full ounce, which is the size of most serums. It's got snail mucin and peptides, sunflower seed oil, argan, just lovely ingredients. You can use it wherever you want but your eyes is what it's made for, but get creative with it. A little bit of it goes a super long way."

Top Pick: hydrating eye cream

All 4 takes from No BS Beauty

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"One more snail thing, the COSRX snail peptide eye cream. It's really lovely. I've been using this one for years. It's just an amazing eye serum. It feels really nice on your eye area. Also can use it on your eyelids. What I love about it is if I'm traveling just for a few days instead of bringing the giant COSRX snail cream with me, I just bring this and I use it on my eyes and my face. The bottle is big enough where you don't feel like you're wasting if you're also using it on your face. So this one is really wonderful."

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"Next up, the COSRX Advanced Snail Peptide Eye Cream. This one is 11 bucks at YesStyle. I love it, this is probably my sixth or seventh bottle of it. Really love it, it's really nice. You can use it all over the entire eye area, you can use it on your face sometimes. If I travel and I don't bring my whole bottle, I just use this on my face and eyes because it really works well for both of those things and it's great. And if your eyelids get dry or anything like that, it's great for keeping them hydrated too."

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"I love this stuff, it's amazing, one of my most repurchased products of all time. Love it, try it out if you haven't."

AliceintheRabbitHole

59k subs

✓Yay

"A lot of people have told me they really enjoy the COSRX Advanced Snail Peptide Eye Cream. It's a very lightweight eye cream, more of a day eye cream in my opinion. I did like this for day, it's a great price, 14 dollars in this sale for 0.85 fluid ounces, a great size, most western eye creams are a mere 0.5 fluid ounces. It's in pump packaging, which is not a personal favorite for me, but I see the appeal."

Nipun Kapur

409k subs

✓Yay

"Like korean skin care brands like cosrx peptide eye cream"

All 2 takes from Nipun Kapur

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"It has some good peptides in it, copper peptide-1, hexapeptide-8, pentapeptide-4, tripeptide-1, and palmitoyl tripeptide-7, beautiful peptides, but they're the last four or five ingredients. I gave it to a family member because it literally did nothing for my skin, and now I understand why: it's basically one drop of peptide, that's literally what it has. By the time peptides are that low on the ingredient list, they're doing nothing for your skin. You might feel like your skin is looking amazing, but if you're my age, 37, or older, 40, 45, 50, 60, 65, you need something with real strength in it. This is basically empty. It's 1900 rupees for 20ml, so it's not cheap, because most serums you buy are usually 30ml, so this is a smaller quantity, meaning the price per ml is higher."

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"Like korean skin care brands like cosrx peptide eye cream"

What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

Niacinamide

Niacinamide has evidence behind it for redness, uneven tone and supporting the skin barrier, and it is usually well tolerated even by skin that reacts to most things.

Source: DermNet

Humectants and emollients

Ingredients like these draw water into the surface layers and slow how fast it leaves. The evidence is for comfort, softness and hydration rather than for changing the structure of the skin.

Source: DermNet

Peptides

Peptides are short protein fragments meant to signal repair. The evidence for them is thinner than for retinoids or vitamin C, and it varies a lot by the specific peptide, so the category is more promising than proven.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

What is COSRX Advanced Snail Peptide Eye Cream?

A lightweight eye cream formulated with snail secretion filtrate and peptides, designed to hydrate and support the delicate under-eye area.

Is COSRX Advanced Snail Peptide Eye Cream worth it?

Yes. All 3 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 79%.

What is COSRX Advanced Snail Peptide Eye Cream's Guru Score?

COSRX Advanced Snail Peptide Eye Cream holds a Guru Score of 79%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 3 expert reviewers we have collected. At least one expert has named it a Top Pick in its category.