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Kiehl's vs Anessa

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Kiehl's and Anessa are distinct beauty lines offering reliable daily protection and targeted care. Kiehl's is known for its moisturizers, serums, toners, and eye products featuring glycerin and squalane, which suit dry skin and sensitive skin best. Conversely, the Japanese brand is widely loved for its advanced sunscreens and sophisticated formulas that suit all skin types best. While both lines feature standout products for acne-prone skin and skin with dark spots, they differ fundamentally in their origins, core ingredient focuses, and primary formulations.

Kiehl's is an American skincare brand founded in 1851 and owned by L'Oréal S.A. since 2000.

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Anessa is a Japanese skincare brand founded in 1992 and owned by Shiseido Company, Limited.

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

Popular Kiehl's vs Anessa products

Questions and answers

Kiehl's or Anessa: which is better?

Kiehl's and Anessa serve different skincare needs, as Kiehl's offers a large selection of cleansers, serums, and moisturizers suited best for dry, sensitive, and mature skin, while Anessa focuses entirely on sunscreens that help oily, combination, and mature skin types.

What is the difference between Kiehl's and Anessa?

Kiehl's is an American brand founded in 1851 that offers a wide range of skincare products on this page, whereas Anessa is a Japanese brand founded in 1992 that focuses specifically on sunscreens. Kiehl's best fits dry, sensitive, and mature skin, while Anessa's products are entirely free of fragrance.

Kiehl's or Anessa: which sunscreen is better?

For sunscreens, Kiehl's Better Screen UV Serum has a High Lovi fit for skin with dark spots, combination skin, sensitive skin, acne-prone skin, and mature skin, while Anessa Perfect UV Sunscreen Skincare Gel has a High fit for sensitive skin, mature skin, skin with dark spots, oily skin, combination skin, oily acne-prone skin, and acne-prone skin.

Which is more affordable, Kiehl's or Anessa?

The provided page facts do not contain pricing information to determine whether Kiehl's or Anessa is more affordable.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Kiehl's or Anessa?

Anessa's products on this page have a High fit for acne-prone skin, while Kiehl's features a wide range of breakouts and skin irritation reported by reviewers alongside products with Low fits for acne-prone skin.

Which brand has been established longer, Kiehl's or Anessa?

Kiehl's has been established longer, having been founded in the United States in 1851, whereas Anessa was founded in Japan in 1992.

How many products from Kiehl's contain fragrance compared to Anessa?

Kiehl's has 2 out of 28 products on the page that list fragrance, while Anessa has no fragranced products listed since every product on this page contains no fragrance.

Which brand offers a cleanser rated as Superior for oily acne-prone skin?

Kiehl's offers cleansers rated as Superior for oily acne-prone skin, such as the Calendula Deep Cleansing Foaming Face Wash and the Rare Earth Deep Pore Daily Cleanser.

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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