When you wake up in the morning and your eyes look like you haven’t slept at all; you are suffering from puffy eyes. Stress and anxiety, high levels of sodium, lack of sleep, and allergies can lead to you suffering from puffy eyes. In some cases it may be due to alcohol intake and yet at other times it is due to hormones. Unfortunately in some cases it is heredity and in these cases there is very little one can do to rectify the error.

The best home remedies to cure puffy eyes include using a cold compress on your eyes. Wash your eyes with ice cold water or splash ice water in your eyes. You can also wrap ice cubes in as cloth and place them on your eyes. Another way to get a cold compress for your eyes is to place silver spoons in your freezer for a few minutes and then placing them on your eyes. Cold compressions always help to reduce the puffiness.

If you are dehydrated then your eyes will tend to look swollen. In this case all you need to do is drink plenty of water to get rid of the condition Water will hydrate your body and take care to release the toxins from your body.

Place cucumber or potato slices on your eye lids and rest for a few minutes. Cucumbers are cooling while potatoes are natural bleaching agents that help to get rid of puffiness and under eye circles.

Take 2 tea bags and soak them in water and let the tea run out. Then place these bags in the fridge for a few minutes and then place them on your eye lids. The tea bags will help to reduce the puffiness.

Contact lenses are known to cause puffiness as well. Care must be taken to remove your lenses before sleeping and wash and disinfect them well before using them. If your job requires you to be in front of the computer all day long then the best thing you can do is to use spectacles that filter out the rays rather than using contact lenses.