Elemis vs Asarai
Elemis and Asarai are established skincare brands offering distinct approaches to daily wellness routines through thoughtfully curated formulations. Elemis is known for its nourishing serums, moisturizers, cleansers, and toners utilizing glycerin and shea, which suit mature skin and dry sensitive skin best. Conversely, Asarai is cherished for its nutrient-rich clay masks and restorative formulas featuring botanical bases that suit balanced, dry, and combination skin best. While both deliver targeted care and soothing hydration, they differ primarily in their ingredient profiles and specialized treatments for specific skin types.
Elemis is a British skincare brand founded in 1989 and owned by L'Occitane Group since 2019.
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This page compares some of the most popular Elemis and Asarai products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Popular Elemis vs Asarai products
Questions and answers
Elemis or Asarai: which is better?
Elemis is a better fit for shoppers seeking a wide range of targeted skincare products, as Lovi rates its products highly for mature and dry sensitive skin. Asarai offers fewer options on this page, as it only features the Earth Tones Face Mask.
What is the difference between Elemis and Asarai?
Elemis offers a wide selection of products on this page and fits mature skin, dry sensitive skin, and skin with dark spots best, whereas Asarai offers just the Earth Tones Face Mask. Reviewers most often mention hydrating moisturizers for Elemis, and its products frequently contain fragrance.
Which is more affordable, Elemis or Asarai?
Reviewers on the Elemis page note a high price point as a common downside for the products on this page. No pricing data is available for Asarai on this page.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Elemis or Asarai?
Asarai may cause fewer breakouts than Elemis because the products on this page for Asarai list no fragrance, whereas most Elemis products contain fragrance, which sometimes notes skin irritation. Furthermore, Lovi rates Asarai's Earth Tones Face Mask as average for acne-prone skin, while Elemis offers a wide range of products with varying fit levels for acne-prone and oily acne-prone skin.
How does the founding year and parent company of Elemis compare to Asarai?
Elemis was founded in 1989 in the United Kingdom and has been owned by the L'Occitane Group since 2019, whereas Asarai was founded in 2018 and is owned by Asarai Inc.
Which brand offers fragrance-free products, and how many Elemis products contain fragrance compared to Asarai?
Asarai offers fragrance-free products as every product on its page lists no fragrance, whereas 18 of the 22 Elemis products on this page contain fragrance.
What are the main skin types that Elemis fits best, and what do reviewers say about its hydration and price point?
Elemis fits mature skin, dry sensitive skin, and skin with dark spots best. Reviewers mostly mention that the products on this page feature hydrating moisturizers alongside a high price point.
Research behind their key ingredients
Bacterial cellulose membranes as drug delivery systems: an in vivo skin compatibility study
Microneedling by dermapen and glycolic acid peel for the treatment of acne scars: Comparative study
Topical beta-carotene protects against infra-red-light-induced free radicals
A Rose Extract Protects the Skin against Stress Mediators: A Potential Role of Olfactory Receptors
Comparative measurement of hydration effects of herbal moisturizers
Topical Almond Oil for Prevention of Pressure Injuries: A Single-Blinded Comparison Study
Skin recovery by Lavandula angustifolia leaf callus extract: Redox control of Nrf2 signaling
Formulation and evaluation of exotic fat based cosmeceuticals for skin repair
Nanocomplex of quaternized cyclodextrin grafted chitosan and hyaluronic acid for a skin delivery
Effects of fermented tea seed oil on the skin lipid barrier and microbiome of sensitive skin
Behind this comparison
Lovi compares products by their fit scores, calculated from the full ingredient list with brand-independent rules our dermatologists and cosmetic chemists build and review, and personalizes every pick with AI trained on the real results of millions of users. Lovi trains its fit score models on a proprietary dataset built from more than 10,000 expert-labeled products and more than 100,000 simulated examples, following an internally consistent methodology presented at Cosmoprof, AMWC, and Skin of Color Update.
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Co-founder, Medical Director
Cosmetic chemist, cosmetologist, aesthetic products developer
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Co-founder, CEO and CTO
PhD in computer science, 3x US patent holder, ex-Google, ex-Yandex
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Dr. Sofía Perea Pérez, MD, MSc
Medical Board
Aesthetic medicine practitioner, MSc in Longevity and Anti-Aging Medicine
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Medical Board
Specialist dermatologist, MBBS, MD, IFAAD
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Cosmetic chemist, SCS, IFSCC member
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Medical Board, Medical Advisor
Dermatology MD
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Elina Nazarenko, MD
Medical Board
Dermatology and diagnostic consultant
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Victoria Derkova, MS
Medical Board
Cosmetic chemist, cosmetic development technologist
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