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Kiehl's vs DHC

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Kiehl's and DHC are renowned skincare brands offering targeted daily care for varying complexions. Kiehl's features moisturizers, serums, toners, and eye products with glycerin and squalane that suit dry and sensitive skin best, while DHC provides effective makeup removers and nourishing formulas suited for dry, normal, combination, and oily skin. Ultimately, the American brand focuses on high-hydration and barrier restoration through specialized ingredients, whereas the Japanese brand delivers reliable daily care for a balanced complexion.

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

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DHC is a Japanese skincare brand founded in 1980 and owned by ORIX Corporation since 2023.

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

Popular Kiehl's vs DHC products

Questions and answers

Kiehl's or DHC: which is better?

Kiehl's offers a much wider selection of products on this page across multiple categories, whereas DHC features only two cleansing oils. Kiehl's fit level is dry skin, sensitive skin, and mature skin.

What is the difference between Kiehl's and DHC?

Kiehl's offers a broad selection of skincare products on this page suited for various skin types and concerns, whereas DHC features a much smaller range consisting of cleansing oils.

Which is more affordable, Kiehl's or DHC?

The products on this page for Kiehl's often receive reviews noting a high price point, whereas no such pricing feedback is available for DHC on this page.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Kiehl's or DHC?

DHC features only two products on this page, while Kiehl's includes various items with mixed reviews where breakouts are sometimes noted by shoppers. Lovi fit ratings for breakout-prone skin range widely across Kiehl's products, whereas DHC products like Pore Cleansing Oil achieve a High fit.

How do the founding years and countries of origin compare between Kiehl's and DHC?

Kiehl's was founded in 1851 in the United States, whereas DHC was founded in 1980 in Japan.

Which brand offers a wider variety of products on this page, and how do their fragrance formulations differ?

Kiehl's offers a much wider variety of products on this page across multiple categories like cleansers, moisturizers, and serums, whereas DHC features only two cleansing oils. Every DHC product on this page lists no fragrance, while only two Kiehl's products include fragrance.

How does the Lovi fit level for dry skin compare between Kiehl's Deep Cleansing Oil equivalent and DHC's Deep Cleansing Oil?

Kiehl's Midnight Recovery Botanical Cleansing Oil has a High Lovi fit level for dry skin, matching the High fit level of DHC's Deep Cleansing Oil. Both makeup removers offer strong compatibility for dry skin types.

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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