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Kiehl's vs grace & stella

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Kiehl's and grace & stella are two popular skincare labels offering distinct approaches to daily beauty routines. The American heritage house is beloved for its moisturizers, serums, toners, and eye products featuring glycerin and squalane, suiting dry and sensitive skin best while increasing hydration and restoring epidermal barrier function. Meanwhile, the Canadian self-care brand is celebrated for its nourishing eye products and moisturizers designed with gentle formulations for all skin types. While both provide targeted options for concerns like acne-prone skin and dark spots, they differ through the historic apothecary focus on clinical science versus the newer label's emphasis on accessible daily rejuvenation.

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

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grace & stella is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2016 and owned by Gravitiq since 2022.

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

Popular Kiehl's vs grace & stella products

Questions and answers

Kiehl's or grace & stella: which is better?

Kiehl's offers a much wider range of products on this page with High to Superior Lovi fit levels across most skin types, whereas grace & stella features only two items. Kiehl's key ingredients like hyaluronic acid and retinol help improve skin hydration and aging signs, supported by clinical studies.

Dermatologic Therapy, 2022The Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 2000

What is the difference between Kiehl's and grace & stella?

Kiehl's offers a broad selection of twenty-eight skincare products on this page suited best for dry, sensitive, and mature skin, while grace & stella features a smaller collection of two items with no specific brand-focused routine skin types listed.

Kiehl's or grace & stella: which moisturizer is better?

For moisturizers, Kiehl's offers a much larger variety of products on this page with different fit levels for various skin types, such as a Superior fit for dry skin with Hydro-Plumping Serum Concentrate. grace & stella provides a Hyaluronic Acid Serum that has a High fit for dry and dry sensitive skin. Topical hyaluronic acid helps improve skin quality and signs of aging.

Dermatologic Therapy, 2022

Which is more affordable, Kiehl's or grace & stella?

Reviews note that Kiehl's products have a high price point. The products on this page for grace & stella do not mention pricing.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Kiehl's or grace & stella?

grace & stella has a smaller selection, but the products on this page are rated High to Superior for acne-prone skin, whereas Kiehl's includes several items that are more likely to cause breakouts.

Between Kiehl's and grace & stella, which brand offers a wider variety of skincare products on this page?

Kiehl's offers a wider variety of skincare products on this page, featuring twenty-eight items compared to grace & stella, which lists only two.

How do the founding years and countries of origin compare between Kiehl's and grace & stella?

Kiehl's was founded in 1851 in the United States, whereas grace & stella was founded much later, in 2016, in Canada.

Which brand has products that specifically achieve a Superior Lovi fit level for oily skin?

Kiehl's has products on this page that achieve a Superior Lovi fit level for oily skin, whereas grace & stella does not.

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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