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Kiehl's vs Sand & Sky

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Kiehl's and Sand & Sky are skincare brands with distinct approaches to daily care. Kiehl's is beloved for its moisturizers, serums, toners, eye products, and more featuring glycerin and squalane, suiting dry skin and sensitive skin best while significantly increasing hydration, restoring epidermal barrier function, counteracting oxidative stress, and stimulating fibroblast migration through standouts like 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. Conversely, the Australian brand is beloved for its purifying masks and targeted formulas with botanical ingredients that gently clarify and balance the complexion, suiting combination, oily, and acne-prone skin best through standout products including the Australian Pink Clay Porefining Face Mask for acne-prone skin. Ultimately, the brands differ through their formulation focuses and ideal skin types.

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

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

Popular Kiehl's vs Sand & Sky products

Questions and answers

Kiehl's or Sand & Sky: which is better?

Kiehl's offers a much wider variety of products on this page compared to Sand & Sky, with strong Lovi fit levels across dry, sensitive, and mature skin types. Its range features mostly fragrance-free options and key ingredients like glycerin and vitamin C, which help improve hydration and skin texture.

What is the difference between Kiehl's and Sand & Sky?

Kiehl's offers a wide range of skincare products across many categories, while Sand & Sky features only a single mask on this page. Kiehl's fits dry, sensitive, and mature skin best, and its products on this page generally list no fragrance.

Which is more affordable, Kiehl's or Sand & Sky?

Reviewers on the page often mention that Kiehl's products have a high price point. The products on this page for Sand & Sky do not include reviewer pricing feedback.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Kiehl's or Sand & Sky?

Comparing the products on this page, Kiehl's and Sand & Sky both have items that may help or cause breakouts. Kiehl's offers options with an oily acne-prone skin fit level up to Superior, while Sand & Sky provides a face mask with a High fit level for acne-prone skin.

How does the founding year and parent company compare between Kiehl's and Sand & Sky?

Kiehl's was founded much earlier in 1851 in the United States and is owned by L'Oréal S.A., whereas Sand & Sky was founded more recently in 2017 and is owned by Excite Foundry Ltd.

Which Kiehl's products contain fragrance, and does Sand & Sky's featured product also contain it?

Age Defender Moisturizer and Facial Fuel Energizing Moisture Treatment for Men are the two Kiehl's products on this page that list fragrance. Sand & Sky's featured Australian Pink Clay Porefining Face Mask also contains fragrance.

What are the main shared key ingredients across the products for both brands?

Kiehl's features key ingredients like glycerin, vitamin C, squalane, shea butter, and vitamin E across the products on this page. In contrast, Sand & Sky does not share these specific key ingredients on this page, as its listed product focuses instead on Australian pink clay.

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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