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Supreme Hydrating Eye Cream.

Trader Joe's Supreme Hydrating Eye Cream
Eye Care

About this product

Trader Joe's Supreme Hydrating Eye Cream is an eye cream designed to hydrate the under-eye area.

Full ingredients

Guru Score

71%

Mixed

Early verdict · Few reviews so far
2Gurus
1Approved
0Mixed
1Skip

What they liked

  • Fragrance-free and affordable
  • Hydrates dry under-eye skin

What they flagged

  • Contains fragrance despite claims

What the gurus are saying

Experts split on a key detail: whether this cream contains fragrance, which matters for those with sensitive skin. Some highlight its affordability and ingredient list (squalane, peptides, caffeine), which reduce puffiness and dark circles and work on dryness and fine lines. Others question whether a dedicated eye cream is truly necessary, given that a regular moisturizer achieves the same results.
Synthesized from 2 expert reviews · most recent take December 2024

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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"For its price, you don't need to spend a lot of money if you're just looking for a simple hydrating eye cream to really help support your under eye area, and this one can be a great one because it's really affordable and it's fragrance-free, so suitable for sensitive skin. Ingredient-wise, it contains wonderful ingredients like squalane, peptides, and caffeine, a lot of my favorite ingredients that I personally intentionally look for when it comes to selecting eye creams. Squalane helps nourish the [...] under eye area, peptides can support collagen and reduce the appearance of puffiness, and caffeine can temporarily vasoconstrict and reduce dark circles and puffiness. So certainly a great one to use, especially for its price, if you are just in the market looking for a good eye cream to keep your under eye area hydrated. [...] If you have some dryness and fine lines, then this eye cream would help."
~Skip
"Oh no, it has fragrance. You don't need an eye cream anyway; this is your moisturizer."

What the evidence says.

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

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

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 Trader Joe's Supreme Hydrating Eye Cream?

Trader Joe's Supreme Hydrating Eye Cream is an eye cream designed to hydrate the under-eye area.

Is Trader Joe's Supreme Hydrating Eye Cream worth it?

The gurus mostly approve it, but with enough reservations to keep it in the middle at a Guru Score of 71%.

What is Trader Joe's Supreme Hydrating Eye Cream's Guru Score?

Trader Joe's Supreme Hydrating Eye Cream holds a Guru Score of 71%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 2 expert reviewers we have collected.

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