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Nothing here is medical advice. The skin under your eye is the thinnest on your face. If you react to fragrance materials, or you have eczema or any diagnosed eye condition, ask a dermatologist before you put a new product there, and follow whatever the maker prints on the box.
Published July 27, 2026. Updated September 1, 2026.
Buy the Grace & Stella Bronze eye patches. They take the five-axis tally below at 74.5 out of 100 against 52.0 for the $75 Peter Thomas Roth 24K Gold Firming Hydra-Gel Eye Patches and 32.0 for the $115 111SKIN Rose Gold Illuminating Eye Mask. The Bronze label runs to 17 ingredients, puts niacinamide fourth and caffeine tenth, and carries no fragrance material and no denatured alcohol. Grace & Stella’s own store will sell you 48 pairs for $45, which is 94 cents a pair. The 111SKIN box works out at $14.38 a pair. Same shelf, 15.3 times the price per pair. On October 10, 2026 the makers’ own stores showed both the Bronze patches and the Peter Thomas Roth 24K Gold box as sold out, so check stock before you plan around either.
Which Under-Eye Patch Should You Buy?
- Best overall: Grace & Stella Bronze, $26 for 24 pairs or $45 for 48. Highest tally, shortest ingredient list, cheapest pair in the group by a factor of 2.5.
- Best if you want the gold: Peter Thomas Roth 24K Gold Firming Hydra-Gel Eye Patches, $75 for 30 pairs. The only one of the three whose maker publishes a sample size.
- Skip it: 111SKIN Rose Gold Illuminating Eye Mask, $115 for 8. Hydrolyzed collagen sits 26th of 33 ingredients on a mask sold on collagen.
I have used gel patches and sheet masks on and off over the years, and I have spent far more time reading ingredient labels than the products deserve. The box sells you a hero ingredient. The label shows where it actually sits.
How We Scored These Eye Patches
Every one of these products is sold on the name of an ingredient. So four of the five axes below are about what each company is prepared to print, and one is about price. Reasons for the weights sit in the first column, because a weight you cannot see is not a weight, it is a preference.
| Axis, and why it carries this weight | Weight | Grace & Stella Bronze | Peter Thomas Roth 24K Gold | 111SKIN Rose Gold |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where the headline ingredient sits in the list — 25, because the ingredient on the front of the box is the entire pitch | 25 | 7 | 6 | 4 |
| Fragrance materials and alcohol on the label — 20, because this goes on the thinnest skin you own and a declared irritant is the one risk you can read in advance | 20 | 9 | 3 | 5 |
| Cheapest pair the maker itself sells — 20, because $13 separates the ends of this field on a single pair | 20 | 10 | 5 | 1 |
| Evidence published for the headline claim — 20, because a percentage with no sample size behind it is a decoration | 20 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| Pack sizes offered — 15, because a patch is a consumable and the box you can buy sets the real price | 15 | 10 | 6 | 4 |
| Weighted tally, out of 100 | 100 | 74.5 | 52.0 | 32.0 |
How the Eye Patches Tally Adds Up
The Grace & Stella column in full: (7 x 0.25) + (9 x 0.20) + (10 x 0.20) + (2 x 0.20) + (10 x 0.15) = 7.45, which is 74.5 on a 100-point scale. Peter Thomas Roth comes to 5.20 and 111SKIN to 3.20. Two of those scores are low for the same reason, and it is not the one you would expect: neither Grace & Stella nor 111SKIN publishes any test figure at all for these patches. Move that axis down to 5 points and spread its 15 across the other four in proportion and the tally reads 84.7, 50.5 and 34.3. Same order.
Prices are approximate, current as of publication, and change frequently — confirm the latest price with the retailer before buying.
Where Do Eye Patches List Caffeine and Collagen?
Cosmetic ingredient lists are not arbitrary. 21 CFR 701.3 requires a cosmetic label to declare its ingredients in descending order of predominance, and paragraph (f) lets a company group them instead: everything above 1 percent in descending order, then everything at 1 percent or less in any order, then color additives in any order. So the front of a list is ordered and the tail is not. Where an ingredient sits tells you which half of that line it fell on.
Where Does Each Selling Point Sit on the Label?
Here is where each product’s own selling point lands on its own label, read off the ingredient lists Grace & Stella, Peter Thomas Roth and 111SKIN publish on their product pages.
| Product | What the name sells | Where that ingredient sits | List length | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grace & Stella Bronze | Caffeine | 10th | 17 | Supported. Caffeine is above two preservatives and the colorant, and niacinamide sits 4th. |
| Peter Thomas Roth 24K Gold | 24K gold, collagen, caffeine | Gold 5th; collagen 10th; caffeine 11th | 32 | Mixed. Gold is listed as CI 77480, a color additive, five places from the front, while two other color additives close the list. |
| 111SKIN Rose Gold | Hydrolyzed collagen, colloidal gold, pomegranate | Collagen 26th; pomegranate 29th; gold 31st | 33 | Not supported by the list. All three named ingredients sit in the unordered tail. |
The Peter Thomas Roth row is the odd one. Under paragraph (f) a color additive goes at the end of the list, and two of its three do. Gold does not. Either the list is a straight descending-order declaration under paragraph (a), in which case gold really is the fifth most abundant thing in the patch, or the ordering is not strict. The label does not say which method it used, and the regulation does not require it to.
One thing the ingredient order cannot tell you: whether 111SKIN’s collagen is at 0.9 percent or 0.001 percent. Below the 1 percent line, position is free. Anyone reading a tail position as a concentration is reading something that is not there.
Do These Eye Patches Contain Fragrance Allergens?
Peter Thomas Roth’s ingredient list includes Lavandula Angustifolia Oil at position 20 and Linalool at position 28. Linalool is a recognized fragrance allergen; European cosmetic labeling has required it to be named separately for years, which is why you see it spelled out on a US label at all. Neither ingredient appears on the front of the box or in the product name, only in the list.
111SKIN’s list has no declared fragrance allergen and no parfum. It does carry Alcohol Denat. at position 15, ahead of the botanical extracts it is sold on. Grace & Stella’s Bronze list has neither: no essential oil, no denatured alcohol, no fragrance entry, 17 ingredients start to finish.
None of that makes one patch safe and another dangerous, and this page is not going to tell you it does. Contact allergy is individual. What it does mean is that one of the three gives you something to check against your own history and the other two give you less to check.
The Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022 directs the FDA to write a fragrance-allergen labeling rule. The agency’s own MoCRA page lists that rulemaking as required and does not publish a date for it. Until it lands, whether an allergen is named on a US cosmetic label is largely the company’s own call.
Eye Patches Price Per Pair: Which Box Size Is Cheapest?
Patches are a consumable, so the box you can actually buy sets the price, not the box on the review. All three companies sell more than one size, and only two of the three ladders point the way you would expect.
| Box | Price | Pairs | Arithmetic | Per pair |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grace & Stella, 48 pairs | $45.00 | 48 | 45 ÷ 48 | $0.94 |
| Grace & Stella, 24 pairs | $26.00 | 24 | 26 ÷ 24 | $1.08 |
| Grace & Stella, 6 pairs | $10.00 | 6 | 10 ÷ 6 | $1.67 |
| Peter Thomas Roth, travel 15 pairs | $35.00 | 15 | 35 ÷ 15 | $2.33 |
| Peter Thomas Roth, 30 pairs | $75.00 | 30 | 75 ÷ 30 | $2.50 |
| 111SKIN, 8 masks | $115.00 | 8 | 115 ÷ 8 | $14.38 |
| 111SKIN, 4 masks | $60.00 | 4 | 60 ÷ 4 | $15.00 |
Grace & Stella’s ladder behaves: the 6-pair box costs 77.8 percent more per pair than the 48-pair box, and stepping from 24 pairs to 48 takes 13.5 percent off the pair price. 111SKIN’s barely moves, 4.3 percent between its two sizes.
Peter Thomas Roth’s runs backwards. Its travel box is $2.33 a pair and its full box is $2.50, so the big box costs 7.1 percent more per pair than the small one. Buy two travel boxes and you have 30 pairs for $70 instead of $75. One caveat, and it matters: the travel box is a limited edition on Peter Thomas Roth’s own store, so this is a live quirk rather than a standing rule. The site was also advertising 30 percent off everything on the day I checked, which is not in any figure here, because a promotion is not a price.
Grace & Stella Eye Patches: Which Color Has Caffeine?
Grace & Stella sells its under-eye patches in seven colors at one price, $26 for 24 pairs, and publishes a separate ingredient list for each. That is worth more than it sounds. The Gold version, which the company calls its bestseller, contains no caffeine at all. The Bronze one does, at position 10 of 17, and Bronze is the one the company describes as a caffeine boost for puffy morning eyes.
So if you are buying these for de-puffing, the color is the product. Seven lists, seven formulas, one price, and a shopper who picks by shade is picking by accident.
The Bronze list in order: water, glycerin, propylene glycol, niacinamide, 1,2-hexanediol, carrageenan, glucomannan, potassium chloride, hydroxyacetophenone, caffeine, cyclodextrin, mica, allantoin, sodium hyaluronate, caprylyl glycol, ethylhexylglycerin, iron oxides. Seventeen entries, and niacinamide fourth is the highest any active sits on any of these three labels.
Against it: Grace & Stella publishes no test figure of any kind for these patches, and that costs it 16 points of the 20 on the evidence axis. It also has the shortest ingredient list here, which is a feature if you are avoiding things and a shortfall if you wanted the peptide complex.
Skip this if you want a product that will tell you what it did in a trial. On that question Grace & Stella tells you nothing.
What Does the Peter Thomas Roth Consumer Study Show?
Peter Thomas Roth is the only one of the three that publishes a number behind its claim. Its product page reports a consumer study of 31 women aged 30 to 59: 100 percent agreed the eye area felt firmer, 97 percent agreed it appeared radiant and illuminated, 94 percent agreed it appeared brighter, all immediately after a single use.
Read that carefully. Thirty-one people, one application, and the outcome measured is agreement rather than a measurement. It is company-run consumer perception, and Peter Thomas Roth says so. It is also more than either competitor discloses, which is why it scores 6 rather than 2 on the evidence axis and still not higher.
The product’s name on peterthomasroth.com is 24K Gold Firming Hydra-Gel Eye Patches. And the full box is not the value buy in its own line, per the ladder above.
Skip this if lavender oil or linalool is on your avoid list. Both are on this label, and there is a 17-ingredient alternative in this comparison with neither.
Is the 111SKIN Rose Gold Mask Worth the Price?
The 111SKIN Rose Gold Illuminating Eye Mask is $115 for 8 masks or $60 for 4, per 111SKIN’s own US store. Its list runs to 33 ingredients. Hydrolyzed collagen is 26th, pomegranate seed extract 29th and gold 31st. Those are the three ingredients the product is named and sold on, and all three sit in the part of the list the regulation stops ordering.
Some of what is higher up is real. Niacinamide sits 12th, panthenol 11th, centella asiatica extract 17th. The mask is not empty. It is that $14.38 a pair buys a formula whose distinguishing ingredients are, by its own label, in the tail.
This is the named loser of the comparison, and it lost on disclosure and price rather than on formulation. If you want it for a wedding morning, buy the 4-mask box and accept that you are paying about 63 cents a pair extra for the smaller commitment.
Skip this if you plan to use patches more than once or twice a year. At $14.38 a pair, twice a week for a month is $115, and the tally above says you are not buying a better label for it.
What Do Under-Eye Patches Not Disclose?
Not one of these companies publishes a concentration for anything. Not caffeine, not collagen, not niacinamide. The ordering rule in 21 CFR 701.3 is the only handle a shopper has, and it goes slack at 1 percent. Every ranking on this page is a ranking of what is disclosed, and I would rather say that than dress a position number up as a dose.
A search of publicly indexed FDA recall notices returned nothing for Peter Thomas Roth, 111SKIN or Grace & Stella eye patches. That is a search of what is indexed, not a database query, and it is worth repeating before you buy.
Patches do one thing for a few hours. If you want the rest of the routine read the same way, our ingredient-list comparison of a $16 and a $105 moisturizer and our scoring of retinol against bakuchiol and peptides cover the two products people pair with these. More of these matchups live in our skincare category.
Check the color before you check the price. On the Grace & Stella page that is the entire decision.
