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Kiehl's vs Skinfix

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Kiehl's and Skinfix are skincare brands offering deeply nourishing moisturizers, serums, and targeted formulas designed to suit dry and sensitive skin best. The American brand, founded in 1851, features key ingredients like glycerin and squalane to increase hydration and restore epidermal barrier function, while the Canadian brand, founded in 2014, relies on rich, restorative ingredients to maintain a healthy complexion. Although both brands excel at soothing delicate complexions, Kiehl's offers a diverse range of toners and cleansers with specific botanical extracts, whereas Skinfix focuses primarily on scientifically targeted lipid-peptide creams.

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

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Skinfix is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2014 and owned by Skinfix Inc..

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

Popular Kiehl's vs Skinfix products

Kiehl's vs Skinfix moisturizers

Questions and answers

Kiehl's or Skinfix: which is better?

Kiehl's offers a much wider variety of products on this page compared to Skinfix, which features only the Barrier+ Triple Lipid-Peptide Cream. For dry skin, Lovi rates Kiehl's Hydro-Plumping Serum Concentrate as Superior and Skinfix's moisturizer as High.

What is the difference between Kiehl's and Skinfix?

Kiehl's offers a wide range of twenty-eight skincare products with various fit levels suited for dry, sensitive, and mature skin, while Skinfix is a newer brand featuring just one product on this page, the Barrier+ Triple Lipid-Peptide Cream. Reviewers note that Kiehl's provides lightweight moisturizers and gentle serums, though some users report breakouts or high prices.

Kiehl's or Skinfix: which moisturizer is better?

For moisturizers, Kiehl's offers a wide variety with high Lovi fit levels for dry skin like the Hydro-Plumping Serum Concentrate which has a Superior fit, whereas Skinfix features the Barrier+ Triple Lipid-Peptide Cream which has a High fit for dry and sensitive skin. Reviewers often mention that Kiehl's provides deep hydration, though the products on this page have a high price point.

Which is more affordable, Kiehl's or Skinfix?

The page does not provide pricing information for either Kiehl's or Skinfix, so affordability cannot be compared here.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Kiehl's or Skinfix?

Skinfix is not reported to cause breakouts on this page, whereas reviewers often mention that Kiehl's causes breakouts and skin irritation.

How do the founding years and home countries of Kiehl's and Skinfix compare?

Kiehl's was founded in 1851 in the United States, whereas Skinfix was founded in 2014 in Canada.

Which brand offers more fragrance-free options among their listed products?

Kiehl's offers more fragrance-free options among the products on this page, as 26 of its 28 listed products contain no fragrance, while all of Skinfix's listed products are fragrance-free.

How many total products does Kiehl's have compared to Skinfix on this page?

Kiehl's features 28 products on this page, whereas Skinfix features only 1 product.

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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