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Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado
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About this product

A rich, creamy eye treatment formulated with avocado oil and shea butter, designed to deeply hydrate and nourish the delicate under-eye area.

Full ingredients

Guru Score

77%

Yay

10 experts · Strong agreement
10Gurus
8Yay
0Mixed
2Nay

What they liked

  • Hydrates without triggering milia
  • Sinks in despite rich texture
  • Small amount goes a long way

What they flagged

  • Too thick to blend in easily
  • Not formulated for specific eye concerns

What the gurus are saying

This cream's heaviness splits opinions sharply. Those with dry under-eyes or a tolerance for thick textures praise how thoroughly it hydrates and moisturizes without triggering milia, and many reach for it nightly as an intensive treatment. However, some gurus find it too dense to absorb comfortably, requiring lengthy tapping to work in, and note it lacks ingredients specifically targeted to thinner eye-area skin, making it function more like a basic moisturizer than a specialized eye treatment. Those prone to milia or who prefer lighter formulas may want to patch-test first.
Synthesized from 10 expert reviews · most recent take July 2026

What the gurus are saying.

Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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Yay
"The Kiehl's avocado eye cream is an incredible eye cream for underneath makeup specifically."
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All 5 takes from Allie Glines
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"The Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado is so good, it's my current favorite eye cream especially for nighttime. I just love how it feels around the eyes. It's like really heavy duty but not, it really moisturizes the eye but it's never caused any sort of milia bumps or anything around my eyes either, which I struggle with. I feel like a lot of more rich eye creams tend to do that on me and this one does not. I always have one of these on hand and I always recommend it to all my family and friends too."
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"This eye cream is actually a very different texture than anything else I've really tried. [...] It just sinks into the eye area but it's the perfect amount of weight. It's not too heavy to where it causes bumps around the eyes or anything like that. I just think it's beautiful. I look forward to using this every night. It really hydrates the under eye area and the texture is so unique. I love it."
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"This is the Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado. It's normally $60. This is such a phenomenal eye cream. I honestly swear by it, especially for prepping the under eyes for makeup. It is phenomenal, and it's one of my favorite eye creams. This is extremely nourishing and hydrating. I would pay full price for these over and over again."
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"The Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado, I'm so late to this bandwagon but I love this stuff. It's so hydrating yet it's lightweight, but somehow it's rich, I don't know how they did this in this formula. It doesn't break me out around my eye area, which I love, and it preps the skin perfectly for underneath makeup. I love using this at night as my eye cream, it's so good. This is an amazing eye cream, this might be my favorite eye cream of the year honestly, it's so nice."
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"The Kiehl's avocado eye cream is an incredible eye cream for underneath makeup specifically."
Yay
"You guys turned me on to this this year. It comes in a duo, so you better really like this because you get quite a bit of it and it lasts forever. If you are a Kiehl's avocado eye cream fan, it's a great time to pick it up. I won't be repurchasing this right now because I have plenty to use and a little bit goes a long way."
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"This is some rich eye cream... I do love this."
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"It is so rich for the under eye area. Now, if you get milia in the under eye area, you might want to think twice because this is an extremely rich cream. But if you have redness, it also has a little green in it to help with redness. I love it. Overnight, it's basically an overnight mask for your under eye area. [...] It is super super rich. I would say that if you don't have crepey under eyes, I wouldn't use this. And it's not going to help with dark spots. It's just going to be very hydrating, emollient, especially during the dry months. I get like just sort of dry skin right in the corners of my eyes. So, I've just been lathering this stuff on at night. Also, just a gorgeous formula."
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"You guys turned me on to this this year. It comes in a duo, so you better really like this because you get quite a bit of it and it lasts forever. If you are a Kiehl's avocado eye cream fan, it's a great time to pick it up. I won't be repurchasing this right now because I have plenty to use and a little bit goes a long way."
Yay
"Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment is such a beautiful eye cream. I kept looking at the ingredients list wondering what makes it feel so special, and I think it's just the blend of ingredients, it's surprisingly heavy and yet somehow sinks in and feels so nourishing. It's beautiful as a night cream, my goodness, I love this as a night cream, and I'm very tempted to pick it up."
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"Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment is such a beautiful eye cream. I kept looking at the ingredients list wondering what makes it feel so special, and I think it's just the blend of ingredients, it's surprisingly heavy and yet somehow sinks in and feels so nourishing. It's beautiful as a night cream, my goodness, I love this as a night cream, and I'm very tempted to pick it up."
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"That set contains one of the thickest and most nourishing eye creams I have ever tried, the Kiehl's avocado eye cream. It is super thick."
Nay
"This is Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado. And it really is a staple for a lot of people. It's rich, it's thick, and it's nourishing. And that's why I don't like it because it's maybe a little bit too thick for my under eyes. [...] This is based around avocado oil and shea butter, which again, a little bit outdated, a little bit old, but they moisturize well enough. But the formula is fairly heavy. It doesn't do much beyond that, which is fine again because that's all you really need under your eyes for most people."
All 2 takes from James Welsh
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"This is Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado. And it really is a staple for a lot of people. It's rich, it's thick, and it's nourishing. And that's why I don't like it because it's maybe a little bit too thick for my under eyes. [...] This is based around avocado oil and shea butter, which again, a little bit outdated, a little bit old, but they moisturize well enough. But the formula is fairly heavy. It doesn't do much beyond that, which is fine again because that's all you really need under your eyes for most people."
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"I actually used to love the Kiehl's creamy avocado eye treatment so much [...] back in my 20s when I was first getting into eye cream, but as my skin has changed it's just too thick and so much work. I don't [...] have the time to sit tapping in an eye cream for a good 5 minutes until it's finally rubbed in. [...] This is a good example of an eye cream that may as well just be a moisturizer, because from what I can see [...] there is no single ingredient in here specifically targeted to the more delicate, thinner skin under your eyes."
Yay
"The Kiehl's formula is absolute fabulous and this has a pure form of vitamin C, this is a product that really really works on dark circles beautifully"
All 2 takes from Nipun Kapur
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"The Kiehl's formula is absolute fabulous and this has a pure form of vitamin C, this is a product that really really works on dark circles beautifully"
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"I like eye creams during the day with caffeine like morning time but you could go to sleep with an eye cream but I'd say it's probably for me more important to use it during the daytime sometimes I'll treat myself and put a little bit of Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado before going to bed. Avocado oil is very nourishing and moisturizing for this delicate area."
Nay
"This product has said that it's going to help with tired eyes, so people are going to look at that and think they're not just buying a moisturizer, they're buying something for at least faded dark circles or for mild dark circles. But actually there's nothing in here for this. This is essentially just a yellow moisturizer and actually quite an expensive one at that. Yes it is nav safe, it's not going to irritate the skin, but it can be quite comedogenic for people with oily acne prone skin and you just not do much for the skin to be honest. You don't get a high rating from me."
Yay
"Then I will go in with my Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado, which is super nice and creamy and rich. You don't need to use a lot, a little bit goes a really long way. I really like using it on the days when I'm filming or doing really glam makeup, because [...] I tend to get dryness around my eyes, and [...] I need that extra moisture because I like coverage there. It helps to counterbalance the powders or coverage that I'm applying in the delicate eye area."
All 2 takes from Alexandra Anele
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"Then I will go in with my Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado, which is super nice and creamy and rich. You don't need to use a lot, a little bit goes a really long way. I really like using it on the days when I'm filming or doing really glam makeup, because [...] I tend to get dryness around my eyes, and [...] I need that extra moisture because I like coverage there. It helps to counterbalance the powders or coverage that I'm applying in the delicate eye area."
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"I've been using the Kiehl's under eye creamy treatment, it's a very creamy eye cream. It's got avocado oil or something in it, it's like a little bit yellowy green, that's what I like to use. I always use a little extra hydration in the areas where I need more coverage, which for me personally is my under eye circles. If I applied this eye cream underneath my eyes and then immediately went in with concealer I am going to get creasing, cakiness, it's just going to ball up, it's going to break up, it's not going to set properly, it's going to look horrible. You need to apply those products and let them sit."
Yay
"One that I've used for many years is by Kiehl's, it's called the creamy eye something with avocado. It's beautiful and I've used it over and over and over and over again."
Yay
"The Kiehl's eye cream is about 50 dollars and has avocado oil and beta-carotene to help brighten the under-eye area and de-puff because of the beta-carotene."

What the evidence says.

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

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and it is often in a formula to keep the other ingredients stable rather than as the active itself. It pairs well with vitamin C, though on its own the evidence for visible change is limited.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

What is Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado?

A rich, creamy eye treatment formulated with avocado oil and shea butter, designed to deeply hydrate and nourish the delicate under-eye area.

Is Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado worth it?

Mostly yes. 8 of the 10 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 77%.

What is Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado's Guru Score?

Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado holds a Guru Score of 77%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 10 expert reviewers we have collected. At least one expert has named it a Top Pick in its category.

Who is Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado best for?

Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado is generally suited to dry skin.

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