URGENT HELP to solve dry, red under eyes

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Please, combined wisdom of mumsnet, tell me what I need to do to fix my under eyes. It started about three days ago and suddenly I have these dry, red and puffy marks below both eyes. Factors it could be:

• lots of gym including weights
• new eye retinol cream (1nkey)
• my (already used for ages) hyaluronic acid moisturiser
• other?

I want to figure out why it came, but even more urgently, how to get rid of it, as I have an important meeting on Friday. Thanks for any advice!

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Honestly, I'd take an anti histamine and stop putting stuff on your eyes for a few days. If the retinol is new and you've no issues with the other things I'd think this was causing the issue.

I reckon it’s the retinol. I’ve had a problem like this in my outer corners of my eyes. When you use retinol it travels so even if you’re not putting it on that area it can creep up and irritate. To fix it stop the retinol until it’s healed, use a plain rich moisturiser and nothing active. Once it’s better and you go back to the retinol make sure you’re not applying it close to your under eyes and pop some moisturiser on that area before applying retinol to act as a barrier of sorts.

Thanks so much for the suggestions.

I had similar a few years back with retinol, agree with an antihistamine for starters and just basic skincare for a while to see what happens.

Antihistamine and very basic moisturiser - I sometimes just use Vaseline - which I know doesn't moisturise but does just sit and cover while your skin repairs itself