A hill I will die on: you do not necessarily need an eye cream. There are, I will admit, reasons why you might fare better with one. You may have a very dry eye area and oily skin elsewhere, for example, causing a skincare mismatch. Or, conversely, you may find your daily face cream is too rich for your eyes and makes them puffy, so they need something lighter. You may want a little cosmetic light reflection, or you might use active ingredients like retinol that your face tolerates perfectly well, but that your eyes can take only in a lower concentration.

It may, of course, be none of the above, but just that you find using an eye cream a pleasure, which is as good a reason as any.

My point is that eye creams are not the anti-ageing magic bullet that marketing campaigns would have us believe. Very many of us can do the same job with our facial skincare, saving time and cash.…