The 9 Best Vegan Eye Creams: Clean, Cruelty-Free & Loved by Users
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No beauty routine is complete without a lovely, effective eye cream. The skin under our eyes is among the most delicate and prone to showing age, so it’s certainly worth pampering. And whether your goals are anti-aging, brightening, hydrating, soothing, reducing dark circles or puffiness, or all of the above… this post will help you find the best vegan eye creams for the job.
What’s special about these vegan eye creams?
There’s no shortage of eye creams on the market. So much so that it can be overwhelming! This post was carefully curated to feature only products that are:
- Highly reviewed: each with a minimum 4.5 / 5 star rating.
- Good for all skin types: hooray, sensitive skin-havers!
- Clean: quality ingredients with no nasties. Scroll to the bottom of this post for more details.
- Cruelty-free and vegan: always. Fully vegan brands are denoted with a (V).
The Best Vegan Eye Creams
20/20 Eye Cream
Veriphy Skincare (V)
A powerhouse eye cream that naturally boosts our skin’s production of collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid
Benefits: Nourishes; hydrates; reduces fine lines, wrinkles, hyperpigmentation, inflammation, and puffiness
Price: $78 || Size: 0.5 oz
Hero Ingredients: Peptides, PhytoSpherix® (sweet corn-derived and responsible for boosting skin’s collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid), niacinamide
Reviewers Love: Visible brightening, firming, smoothing, and anti-aging effects; loved even by eye cream skeptics
Advanced Repair Eye Cream
OSEA (V)
A seaweed-rich eye cream with clinically proven results and a thick, luxurious texture – for the mermaids among us
Benefits: Anti-aging, brightening, moisturizing
Price: $68 || Size: 0.6 oz
Hero Ingredients: Seaweed, horse chestnut, squalane
Reviewers Love: Soft, smooth, firmed, hydrated eye area; visible reduction of fine lines and wrinkles; thick, luxurious texture
Revitalizing Dew Snow Mushroom Eye Gel-Cream
WELL PEOPLE (V)
A competitively priced, lightweight gel eye cream that moisturizes nicely and is ideal for sensitive skin
Benefits: Hydrates, brightens, smooths, targets fine lines and dullness
Price: $18 || Size: 0.5 oz
Hero Ingredients: Aloe extract, broccoli seed oil, snow mushroom, and niacinamide
Reviewers Love: Lightweight gel texture that absorbs well; moisturizing; great for sensitive skin; a little goes a long way
Herban Wisdom® Eye Cream
Humanist Beauty (V)
An EWG Verified®, full-spectrum whole hemp formula packed with actives and renowned for its nourishing effects
Benefits: Balances skin’s stress response; anti-aging; increases luminosity, elasticity, firmness, and resilience
Price: $40 || Size: 0.5 oz
Hero Ingredients: Full-spectrum whole hemp, adaptogens, medicinal mushrooms
Reviewers Love: Rich, buttery texture that’s still lightweight; soothing CBD; absorbs readily; has won over even eye cream skeptics
Eye Cream
Mad Hippie (V)
A cost-effective eye cream packed with peptides and antioxidants to rejuvenate, brighten, and smooth the under eye area
Benefits: Anti-aging, rejuvenating, fights discoloration, brightens
Price: $26 || Size: 0.5 oz
Hero Ingredients: Peptides, niacinamide, licorice
Reviewers Love: Visible reduction of dark circles and puffiness; great value for the money; very gentle and ideal for sensitive skin
One Perfect Revival Eye Cream
Knours
An EWG Verified®, hormone-conscious eye cream with a contoured ceramic tip that cools and de-puffs the eye area
Benefits: Smooths, brightens, minimizes fine lines and wrinkles, improves skin resilience
Price: $36 || Size: 0.5 oz
Hero Ingredients: Rosehip oil, powerful blend of peptides
Reviewers Love: Ease and comfort of application thanks to the ceramic tip; brightening, tightening, and plumping effects
Mineral Eye Cream
NENA (V)
An EWG Verified® eye cream made with glacial oceanic mineral water and sugar maple for maximum hydration
Benefits: Hydrates, firms, depuffs, brightens
Price: $30 || Size: 0.5 oz
Hero Ingredients: Glacial oceanic mineral water, sugar maple, Canadian berries, probiotics, green tea, pomegranate, caffeine
Reviewers Love: Silky and moisturizing; depuffs and brightens effectively; good for sensitive skin. (Note: This product doesn’t have many reviews. It was, however, a finalist for two beauty awards.)
First Light Vitamin C + Caffeine Eye Cream
Three Ships (V)
A gentle formula that has noticeable effects on fine lines, with a ceramic tip applicator for depuffing and cooling
Benefits: Brightens, reduces appears of dark circles and puffiness, hydrates, soothes
Price: $32 || Size: 0.5 oz
Hero Ingredients: Acerola cherry vitamin C, caffeine, squalane
Reviewers Love: Cooling applicator depuffs eyes; works well under makeup and doesn’t pull; visibly diminishes fine lines; lightweight consistency that feels great on the skin
True EyeLove
PUUR Ingrid (V)
An EWG Verified®, peptide-rich, luxurious formula made to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles
Benefits: Reduces appearance of fine lines and wrinkles and provides intense hydration
Price: $32 || Size: 0.5 oz
Hero Ingredients: Hyaluronic acid, squalane, bakuchoil (a natural retinol alternative)
Reviewers Love: Absorbs well; visible firming, tightening, and smoothing; nice texture. (Note: This product doesn’t have many reviews, but those it does have are rave.)
An Aside: A Beloved Eye Serum
Sometimes during my research I’ll find a product so stand-out that it deserves immediate attention. So although this post is about vegan eye creams, I discovered a vegan eye serum that must be highlighted. Expect a post on the best vegan eye serums in the future, but in the meantime this one gets a special feature because it’s, ya know, special.
Restore Eye Serum
Akar
A beloved, luxury eye serum charged with antioxidants
Benefits: Smooths appearance of fine lines, provides long-lasting hydration, revitalizes tired skin, improves radiance
Price: $102 || Size: 0.3 oz
Hero Ingredients: Proprietary PhytoActive+ Compound with buzz button flower extract, pomegranate, cloudberry
Reviewers Love: Described as a “miracle oil”; highly nourishing; remarkable results (brightens, reduces wrinkles, minimizes dark circles, depuffs). (Note: I recommend reading the reviews yourself. They’re off the charts.)
Vegan Eye Creams By Price
Many options in this post are premium by virtue of their higher-than-average-quality ingredients and ethics. For ease of comparison, here are the eye creams in this post listed by price. All are 0.5 oz except OSEA, which is 0.6 oz.
- Revitalizing Dew Snow Mushroom Eye Gel-Cream [WELL PEOPLE]: $18
- Eye Cream [Made Hippie]: $26
- Mineral Eye Cream [NENA]: $30
- First Light Vitamin C + Caffeine Eye Cream [Three Ships]: $32
- True EyeLove [PUUR Ingrid]: $32
- One Perfect Revival Eye Cream [Knours]: $36
- Herban Wisdom® Eye Cream [Humanist Beauty]: $40
- Advanced Repair Eye Cream [OSEA]: $68
- 20/20 Eye Cream [Veriphy Skincare]: $78
Q’s & A’s
What are clean vegan eye creams?
“Clean beauty” is a term that gets thrown around a lot, and it can be confusing to try to understand what it means in any given context. It’s a key topic of discussion ’round these parts, so head to this post for a detailed explanation of what products qualify as “clean” on Florah. Or you can read the TL;DR list here:
- Cruelty-free and vegan, always
- Made by transparent brands that are forthcoming with their ingredient philosophy, sustainability efforts, and values as a brand
- Checked against third party sides dedicated to a) providing information and rankings of clean products, like EWG’s Skin Deep database and/or b) selling products that meet high cleanliness standards, like Credo Beauty, Petit Vour, and The Detox Market
- Checked against review sites to ensure their efficacy and quality
What does “EWG Verified” mean?
EWG (Environmental Working Group) is a nonprofit whose mission is, in their words, “To empower you with breakthrough research to make informed choices and live a healthy life in a healthy environment.” They work in several areas, including food and water, farming and agriculture, and, relevant for our purposes here, consumer products.
EWG Verified® products meet high standards around: excluding various ingredients known or suspected to be bad for us, limiting the use of various ingredients for the same reason, and providing full transparency into ingredients. The EWG stamp is a good indication that a product claiming to be clean is actually clean.
What’s the difference between eye creams and eye serums?
No judgement if you find yourself asking this question because I, too, realized I wasn’t entirely clear on it as I wrote this post. If you’d like an in-depth answer, this article is helpful.
Essentially eye serums, like other facial serums, are highly concentrated and potent products. Think: more dramatic and faster results. Serums also tend to be thinner and not necessarily focused on moisturizing, but more on targeting specific concerns (like fine lines). Eye serum comes before eye cream in your routine, assuming nothing on either package suggests you shouldn’t use both in close succession.
There’s a commonly-touted but apparently false idea that the reason serums come before creams is because of molecular size. The myth goes thusly: serums have smaller molecules, so they go on first to ensure that they don’t get ‘blocked’ by the larger cream molecules, which go on second. It turns out (thanks, science) that there’s space between molecules, so that concept doesn’t really make sense. However, the “thinnest to thickest” product rule is still a good standard because it means you’ll typically be going water-based product to oil-based product, which is what you want for best absorption.
Whew!
Next comes eye creams. They can also have very potent ingredients for specific benefits (like anti-aging), but their primary purpose tends to be providing a boost of luscious moisture. As such, they’re often thicker and, why yes, creamier.
What are your favorite vegan eye creams?
Leave a comment below! I would love to know your go-to products.
