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Estée Lauder vs ILIA Beauty

Rated by Lovi · Unbiased, science-based skincare AI trained on real user outcomes · How the Fit score works

Estée Lauder and ILIA Beauty are established North American skincare brands offering thoughtfully crafted moisturizers and serums. The American heritage label is known for its comprehensive range featuring hydrating hyaluronic acid and glycerin, suiting acne-prone and mature skin best. Meanwhile, the Canadian clean beauty brand is widely loved for its gentle compositions that suit dry, normal, and combination skin. While both prioritize hydration, they differ in their founding eras, ingredient heritages, and targeted skin types.

Estée Lauder is an American skincare brand founded in 1946 and owned by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc..

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ILIA Beauty is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2011 and owned by Famille C since 2022.

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This page compares some of the most popular Estée Lauder and ILIA Beauty products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Popular Estée Lauder vs ILIA Beauty products

Questions and answers

Estée Lauder or ILIA Beauty: which is better?

Estee Lauder is a better fit than ILIA Beauty for most shoppers on this page, as its products on this page cover many routines and skin types with deep hydration. Glycerin helps provide moisture to the skin, which is supported by clinical findings.

What is the difference between Estée Lauder and ILIA Beauty?

Estée Lauder offers a wide range of fourteen skincare products featuring key ingredients like glycerin, whereas ILIA Beauty features just one moisturizer on this page, The Base Face Milk. Lovi rates Estée Lauder best for acne-prone, mature, and oily acne-prone skin.

Estée Lauder or ILIA Beauty: which moisturizer is better?

When comparing moisturizers, Estée Lauder offers multiple options on this page with varying Lovi fit levels such as Average or High for dry and mature skin, whereas ILIA Beauty features just one moisturizer, The Base Face Milk, which rates Average across skin types. Estée Lauder products generally feature key ingredients like glycerin, which helps support skin hydration.

Which is more affordable, Estée Lauder or ILIA Beauty?

When comparing the products on this page, reviewers mostly mention Estée Lauder for its high price point, while the page contains no price or affordability feedback for ILIA Beauty.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Estée Lauder or ILIA Beauty?

ILIA Beauty features only a single moisturizer on the page, The Base Face Milk, which rates an Average Lovi fit for acne-prone skin. Estée Lauder offers multiple products on the page with High or Superior Lovi fits for acne-prone skin, including DayWear Moisturizer, Nutritious Booster Drops, and Advanced Night Cleansing Gelée, though reviewers note that strong fragrance is sometimes present.

Which brand offers products with fragrance, Estée Lauder or ILIA Beauty?

Estée Lauder offers products with fragrance on this page, specifically the DayWear Moisturizer and the Soft Clean Moisture Rich Foaming Cleanser, while ILIA Beauty lists no fragrance in the ingredients of every product on its page.

What are the shared key ingredients found across the products of both brands?

Hyaluronic acid and glycerin are shared key ingredients found across the products on this page for Estée Lauder, while the products on this page for ILIA Beauty do not share these key ingredients.

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Research behind their key ingredients

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.

  • Nadia Kapleva, MS

    Nadia Kapleva, MS

    Co-founder, Medical Director

    Cosmetic chemist, cosmetologist, aesthetic products developer

  • Alexey Shagraev, PhD

    Alexey Shagraev, PhD

    Co-founder, CEO and CTO

    PhD in computer science, 3x US patent holder, ex-Google, ex-Yandex

  • Dr. Sofía Perea Pérez, MD, MSc

    Dr. Sofía Perea Pérez, MD, MSc

    Medical Board

    Aesthetic medicine practitioner, MSc in Longevity and Anti-Aging Medicine

  • Aishani Shah, MD

    Aishani Shah, MD

    Medical Board

    Specialist dermatologist, MBBS, MD, IFAAD

  • Asya Zubkova, MS

    Asya Zubkova, MS

    Medical Board

    Cosmetic chemist, SCS, IFSCC member

  • Hanna Kurets, MD

    Hanna Kurets, MD

    Medical Board, Medical Advisor

    Dermatology MD

  • Elina Nazarenko, MD

    Elina Nazarenko, MD

    Medical Board

    Dermatology and diagnostic consultant

  • Victoria Derkova, MS

    Victoria Derkova, MS

    Medical Board

    Cosmetic chemist, cosmetic development technologist

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