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Clarins vs NEOCUTIS

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Clarins and NEOCUTIS are esteemed European skincare houses that offer distinct approaches to complexion care. The French brand is loved for its luxurious moisturizers, potent serums, soothing eye products, and gentle toners enriched with nourishing shea and hydrating squalane, suiting sensitive and dry sensitive skin best. Conversely, the Swiss brand is widely beloved for its refined serums and moisturizers, which utilize thoughtfully crafted formulas to nurture mature, dry, and stressed skin. While both deliver balanced, gentle care, they differ in their specific targeted treatments and foundational ingredients.

Clarins is a French skincare brand founded in 1954 and owned by Famille C (Groupe Clarins).

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NEOCUTIS is a Swiss skincare brand founded in 2003 and owned by Merz Holding GmbH & Co. KG since 2013.

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

Popular Clarins vs NEOCUTIS products

Questions and answers

Clarins or NEOCUTIS: which is better?

Clarins offers a much wider selection of products on this page compared to NEOCUTIS, with options fitting sensitive, dry sensitive, and dry skin best. Additionally, topical vitamin E helps provide antioxidant and anti-aging benefits.

Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, 2020

What is the difference between Clarins and NEOCUTIS?

Clarins features a broad range of products that are mostly fragranced and fit sensitive, dry sensitive, and dry skin well, whereas NEOCUTIS offers fragrance-free formulas. Ingredients like hyaluronic acid and vitamin E found in the products on this page help improve skin quality and signs of aging.

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Clarins or NEOCUTIS: which moisturizer is better?

Clarins offers a wider range of moisturizers like Hydra-Essentiel Silky Cream, which achieves a Superior Lovi fit for dry skin, compared to NEOCUTIS, which features only one moisturizer on this page with lower fit levels. Topical hyaluronic acid, found in key formulations, helps improve skin quality and signs of skin aging.

Dermatologic Therapy, 2022

Which is more affordable, Clarins or NEOCUTIS?

Reviewers on the page mention that Clarins has a high price point, but the page does not provide pricing information to compare its affordability directly with NEOCUTIS.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Clarins or NEOCUTIS?

NEOCUTIS is unlikely to cause breakouts as its products on this page are fragrance-free, whereas Clarins has multiple products with average or low fit levels for acne-prone skin and mostly contains added fragrance.

Which brand has been around longer, Clarins or NEOCUTIS?

Clarins has been around longer, having been founded in France in 1954 compared to NEOCUTIS, which was established in Switzerland in 2003.

Do Clarins products contain fragrance while NEOCUTIS products do not?

Yes, Clarins products mostly contain fragrance, with only 1 out of 24 products on this page listing no fragrance. Meanwhile, every NEOCUTIS product on this page lists no fragrance in its ingredients.

Which country were Clarins and NEOCUTIS respectively founded in?

Clarins was founded in France and NEOCUTIS was founded in Switzerland.

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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