Clean Beauty, Clearly Explained: What It Actually Means for Your Eyes

Clean Beauty, Clearly Explained: What It Actually Means for Your Eyes

“Clean beauty” is everywhere — but when it comes to eye makeup, the meaning can feel blurry. At CHESHMA, clean isn’t about fear-based marketing or impossible standards. It’s about thoughtful formulation, ingredient transparency, and respecting one of the most sensitive areas of your face.

Your eyes are delicate. The skin is thinner, absorption is higher, and products sit close to tear ducts, lash follicles, and the ocular surface itself. That’s why what you put near your eyes matters — not just for how it looks, but for how it functions and feels over time.

That includes how cosmetics perform on, around, and in continuous contact with the eye and its surrounding structures. Products don’t exist in isolation — they migrate, interact with tears and eye structures, and are worn for hours at a time. Formulation must account for comfort, stability, and eye health, not just initial wear or pigment payoff.

Dr. Nieka Sabeti's clean beauty line CHESHMA developed by an optometrist.

Clean eye makeup prioritizes formulas that are free from unnecessary irritants, heavy fragrances, and harsh additives. Instead, it focuses on gentle, effective ingredients that perform beautifully without compromising comfort or eye health. This means less stinging, less redness, and makeup that wears well without that end-of-day heaviness.

At CHESHMA, we believe clean beauty should still feel luxurious. Products should glide on smoothly, stay put when you need them to, and remove easily when the day is done. Clean doesn’t mean watered down — it means mindful.

Because when your makeup works with your precious eyes and delicate skin, you feel the difference.

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