Cult Australian skincare brand Alpha-H have extended their amazing Liquid Gold line to include an all-powerful, all-problem-tackling eye cream. Their original Liquid Gold – an acid exfoliant that champions glycolic acid as its hero ingredient – was one of the first beauty products to properly make me sit up and take notice. When I used it (read my review here, written way back in 2011!) I was taken aback by the overnight results – visible results – that just seemed so quick, so easy. I had never heard of glycolic acid before – in truth, it sounded horrendous – but the way that it gently exfoliated and brightened my skin seemed revolutionary.

And so my love for the whole Liquid Gold range was born. New products have been added over the years, all of them with the same powerful effects, and now there’s a marvellous eye cream too. The Liquid Gold Firming Eye Cream differs slightly from the rest of the range in that it doesn’t have glycolic acid as its starting point; it uses instead slightly milder acids derived from caviar lime, which is native to the rainforests on Australia’s east coast. So a little gentler on the delicate eye area, but with the same brightening effects.
I’m going to do a full review on this eye cream, because I haven’t done an eye cream post in an age and I do love anything that can help to relax lines and generally stop my face from looking like Skeletor’s. But in short, Alpha...