Can hot compress remove dark circles? How to effectively remove dark circles

Dark circles generally do not disappear naturally. If you want them to disappear, you need to take some care or treatment, which can improve them. So, is hot compress effective for dark circles?

Can hot compress remove dark circles?

Hot compress can improve dark circles, which are commonly caused by staying up late, poor rest and excessive use of the eyes. Hot compress can promote blood circulation around the eyes, accelerate eye metabolism, and effectively improve the symptoms of dark circles. Patients should pay attention to developing good living habits, get enough rest, massage their eyes appropriately, and apply eye masks regularly to replenish moisture.

How to effectively remove dark circles

1. Applying a towel scalded with hot water on the eyes can promote local blood circulation, accelerate the excretion of melanin around the eyes, and achieve the purpose of eliminating dark circles. Do it for five to ten minutes each time, once a day before going to bed. After the wet compress, you can apply eye cream externally and perform local massage to promote absorption.

2. Reduce eye use to prevent eye fatigue caused by excessive use, ensure adequate sleep, and stay away from electronic products with strong radiation such as computers or mobile phones. If you use your mobile phone or computer for a long time, you need to do eye exercises every 1-2 hours to relieve eye fatigue.

3. Laser beauty or surgical treatment can directly improve dark circles and eye bags, but it is expensive.

How to choose concealer color for dark circles

1. Black dark circles: Black is a shadow-type dark circles, which are caused by age problems, resulting in sunken tear troughs and bulging eye bags, making the shadows look like dark circles. No eye cream can save this type of dark circles.

2. Cyan dark circles: Cyan is a type of vascular dark circles, which means the skin on the eyelids is very thin and the blood vessels can be seen, making them look like dark circles. The cause is blood retention in the blood vessels, which causes the color to darken. This is a vascular type of dark circles, and ordinary whitening eye creams are useless.

3. Brown dark circles: Brown dark circles are pigmented dark circles and are the most standard panda eyes. In addition to congenital pigmentation, there is also acquired pigmentation due to sun exposure, allergies and other reasons. This type of dark circles can be saved with whitening eye cream, and you should also pay attention to daily sun protection.

Types of Dark Circles

1. Pigment type

Pigmented dark circles are divided into congenital and acquired.

People of Southeast Asian descent are more likely to have inherited pigmentary dark circles. As for acquired ones, it is mostly because the makeup is not removed thoroughly, which puts too much burden on the skin around the eyes; it may also be due to improper sun protection or frequent rubbing of the eyes leading to pigmentation.

2. Vascular type

This type of dark circles is mainly caused by slow blood flow in blood vessels, resulting in stagnation, and the skin around the eyes is thin, showing the blue color of the capillaries. Common reasons are lack of sleep, poor rest, staying up late, etc. Staying up all night watching the World Cup also causes this kind of vascular dark circles.

3. Structural

This type of dark circles refers to the dark circles caused by eye bags and fine lines or depressions around the eyes. In addition to aging, the common causes include congenital structural reasons of some ethnic groups, such as Indians and Europeans and Americans.

4. Hybrid

Mixed dark circles are formed by the superposition and combination of any two of the above three types of dark circles.