Serious under-eye hydration needed

[Elfontheedge]

I have very dry skin under and around eyes, especially around the tear ducts. Worse than usual at the minute as I'm full of a cold . Recommend me your best eye creams (budget option welcome!) please

The French pharmacy skincare brands are great for these kinds of things. My particular favourites: La Roche-Posay and Eucerin (a German brand, readily available in UK - Boots etc.), although there's also Avène which people love too.

For really dry skin I wouldn't get a regular eye cream but a dry-skin moisturiser for the face and then use it on your eyes. In the past I've used: Eucerin Aquaporin Riche and La Roche-Posay Cicaplast moisturiser - both are more or less the only things that actually stop dryness for me! I got a small tube of the cicaplast that cost only 6 quid, otherwise I think you're looking at between 10 and 15 pounds for most of these moisturisers from Boots.

I know lots of people swear by Nivea/ Astral (?) and other low-priced regular moisturisers but I have tried these kinds of creams and find they are too strong for my eye area - and make my eyes water/sting. The Eucerin and La Roche-Posay ones i've tried are much more gentle, despite not being specifically for the eye area.

Intrigued to hear what other people will suggest re:actual eye creams...

Olive oil (from the kitchen). Put maybe a teaspoonfull in a bowl, that'll last the week as you only want to dip 2 fingers in and massage it into your face at night, just after you've washed your face for the day. Wash it off in the morning. A Care2 article suggested it, and this webpage (trying to sell their own product) gave me the guts to try it:
belmondo.ca/pages/using-olive-oil-as-a-moisturizer-for-your-skin