Clare Eye Clinic and optical services

⚠️ Can your skincare products affect your eyes? YES.

The skin around your eyes is the thinnest on your face, so products absorb fast and can easily get into your eyes.

Regular skincare can cause:
1. Burning, blurry vision, watery eyes from creams/oils sliding in
2. Stinging from fragrance, essential oils, alcohol
3. Styes + dry eyes from heavy creams too close to lash line

Medicated "drug" skincare to be extra careful with:
1. Retinoids like tretinoin, retinol: Dryness, light sensitivity. Can burn if it gets in eye.

2. Acids llike AHA/BHA/Vitamin C: Stinging, tearing, worsens dry eye

3. Hydroquinone: Irritation. Don’t use near lash line
4. Steroid creams: Long term use near eyes can increase risk of glaucoma & cataracts
5. Benzoyl Peroxide: Very drying. Severe irritation if it gets in eye

How to protect your eyes:
1. Orbital bone rule: Stop applying actives at the bone, not on eyelids
2. Wash hands after applying
3. Introduce 1 active at a time
4. Wear sunscreen - actives make eyes more light sensitive
5. If product gets in eye, rinse with water for 15 minutes

See your eye doctor or dermatologist if you have persistent burning, swelling, or vision changes.

Your eyes are not skincare testers. Protect them ❤️

Happy new month.

May June bring you all you wish for

Muna’s First “Wow”

Muna was 5 years old, but he thought the world was blurry for everyone.

At school, he sat at the front but still squinted at the board. He didn’t raise his hand much. When his teacher asked him to read, he’d guess the words from the pictures. At home, he bumped into chair legs and got frustrated with puzzles fast. His mum thought he was just “distracted” and “a bit clumsy.”

One day, Clare Eye Clinic came had a Children’s Day screening. Muna sat in the chair, covered one eye, then the other. The optometrist smiled and said, “Ah, I see why you’re guessing.”

She showed Mum the results: Muna was very farsighted in both eyes. He’d been straining to see since he was little. His brain had learned to blur things out because it was too tiring to focus.

“Why didn’t we notice?” Mum whispered.
“Because kids don’t know what ‘clear’ looks like,” the optometrist replied. “They think everyone sees like they do. And the earlier we catch this, the easier it is to fix.”

Two weeks later, Muna got his first pair of glasses.

The day he put them on, he stopped in the middle of the clinic and said, “Mummy… the leaves have lines.”
He meant the veins on the leaves outside the window. He’d never seen them before.

In the next month, Muna started raising his hand in class. He finished his puzzles without throwing them. He stopped bumping into things. His mum said, “It’s like I got a new child. But really, he was always there. We just couldn’t see him clearly.”

The point: Kids won’t complain about blurry vision. They adapt. But when vision problems are left uncorrected, it affects learning, confidence, and play.

A simple eye screening from age 3 can catch it early. And early is easier.

Bring your child to Clare Eye Clinic this Children’s Day, May 27th. Let them see their first “wow.”