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Clarins vs Valmont

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Clarins and Valmont are esteemed European skincare houses that offer luxurious moisturizers, potent serums, soothing eye products, and gentle toners. The French brand is known for utilizing nourishing shea and hydrating squalane, suiting sensitive and dry sensitive skin best, while the Swiss brand is celebrated for refined formulas that suit mature and dehydrated skin. They primarily differ in their geographic origins, founding years, and specific target skin types.

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

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Valmont is a Swiss skincare brand founded in 1985.

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

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Clarins vs Valmont moisturizers

Questions and answers

Clarins or Valmont: which is better?

Clarins fits dry skin and sensitive skin with High levels across several products on this page, while Valmont offers only a single product with Average to High fit levels. Clarins also features a much broader range of moisturizers and cleansers.

What is the difference between Clarins and Valmont?

Clarins was founded in France in 1954 and features a broad range of products on this page that fit sensitive, dry sensitive, and dry skin best, whereas Valmont was founded in Switzerland in 1985 and includes only one product on this page, the Prime Renewing Pack.

Clarins or Valmont: which moisturizer is better?

Clarins offers a wider variety of moisturizers with High to Superior Lovi fit levels for dry and mature skin, whereas Valmont features just one moisturizer on this page with High fit for mature and dry sensitive skin. Clarins moisturizers help hydrate and smooth the skin, though reviewers frequently mention a high price point and strong fragrance.

Which is more affordable, Clarins or Valmont?

Reviewers note that Clarins has a high price point, but Valmont's pricing is not detailed on this page.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Clarins or Valmont?

Valmont has products on this page that may cause fewer breakouts than Clarins, because the single Valmont product listed achieves an Average fit for acne-prone skin, whereas several Clarins products show lower fit levels or warnings for acne-prone skin.

In what year and country was Clarins founded compared to Valmont?

Clarins was founded in 1954 in France, whereas Valmont was founded in 1985 in Switzerland.

Which brand has more products listed on the page with fragrance, Clarins or Valmont?

Clarins has more products listed on the page with fragrance, with 23 out of 24 products containing it compared to Valmont's 1 product.

What are some of the key ingredients used across Clarins products?

Some of the key ingredients used across Clarins products include shea butter, squalane, oat, hyaluronic acid, vitamin E, and glycerin.

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.

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    Nadia Kapleva, MS

    Co-founder, Medical Director

    Cosmetic chemist, cosmetologist, aesthetic products developer

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    Alexey Shagraev, PhD

    Co-founder, CEO and CTO

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    Medical Board

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  • Aishani Shah, MD

    Aishani Shah, MD

    Medical Board

    Specialist dermatologist, MBBS, MD, IFAAD

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    Medical Board

    Cosmetic chemist, SCS, IFSCC member

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    Hanna Kurets, MD

    Medical Board, Medical Advisor

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    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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