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Kiehl's vs Blume

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Kiehl's and Blume are heritage and modern skincare brands offering nourishing moisturizers, serums, toners, and eye products with key ingredients like glycerin and squalane. The American brand, founded in 1851, suits dry and sensitive skin best with formulations that feature standout products such as the Calendula Herbal-Extract Toner for acne-prone skin, the Calendula Deep Cleansing Foaming Face Wash for skin with dark spots, and the Ultra Facial Toner for mature skin to increase hydration, restore epidermal barrier function, counteract oxidative stress, and stimulate fibroblast migration. Meanwhile, the Canadian brand, founded in 2018, is widely loved for its thoughtful formulas, including the Meltdown Gel Cream for acne-prone skin, that suit sensitive, acne-prone, and dry skin best to support a balanced and healthy complexion. While both brands serve similar skin types, they differ in their founding eras, geographic origins, and specialized product lineups.

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

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Blume is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2018.

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

Popular Kiehl's vs Blume products

Kiehl's vs Blume moisturizers

Questions and answers

Kiehl's or Blume: which is better?

Kiehl's offers a much wider variety of skincare products on this page compared to Blume, which features only a single option. Kiehl's is known to fit dry, sensitive, and mature skin best across its brand-focused routines, while Blume's Meltdown Gel Cream helps support acne-prone and oily skin types.

What is the difference between Kiehl's and Blume?

Kiehl's is a larger, long-standing brand offering a wide range of products on this page that fit dry, sensitive, and mature skin best, whereas Blume is a newer, independent brand featured with just a single moisturizer. Reviewers note that Kiehl's provides lightweight moisturizers and gentle serums, though some users mention a high price point or occasional breakouts.

Kiehl's or Blume: which moisturizer is better?

When comparing moisturizers, Kiehl's offers a much wider variety of options tailored to specific skin types and concerns, while Blume features a single moisturizer, Meltdown Gel Cream, which Lovi rates as High for acne-prone, oily, and dry skin.

Which is more affordable, Kiehl's or Blume?

Reviewers on this page often mention that Kiehl's has a high price point, whereas Blume is an independent brand founded in Canada.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Kiehl's or Blume?

Blume features only one product on this page, the Meltdown Gel Cream, which has a High fit level for acne-prone skin. In contrast, Kiehl's offers a wide range of products on this page where reviewers often mention that some items may cause breakouts and skin irritation.

How does the founding year and country of origin compare between Kiehl's and Blume?

Kiehl's was founded in 1851 in the United States, whereas Blume was founded much later in 2018 in Canada.

Which brand offers fragrance-free products across its entire page, Kiehl's or Blume?

Blume offers fragrance-free products across its entire page, whereas Kiehl's includes fragrance in a couple of items. On the products on this page, Blume lists no fragrance in any of its ingredients, while Kiehl's includes fragrance in two of its formulations.

What are the specific skin types that Kiehl's brand-focused routines are designed to fit best?

Kiehl's brand-focused routines are designed to fit dry skin, sensitive skin, and mature skin best.

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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