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The INKEY List vs Bayer

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The INKEY List and Bayer are two distinctive skincare brands offering targeted solutions for diverse complexions. The British brand features moisturizers, serums, toners, and eye products built around glycerin, suiting sensitive and acne-prone skin best, whereas the German brand focuses exclusively on serums. Both offer specialized care, with the former highlighting the PHA Toner, Azelaic Acid Serum, and Ceramide Moisturizer, and the latter featuring the Skinoren Cream.

The INKEY List is a British skincare brand founded in 2018 and owned by Brand Evangelists for Beauty Limited.

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Bayer is a German skincare brand founded in 1863 and owned by Bayer AG.

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This page compares some of the most popular The INKEY List and Bayer products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Popular The INKEY List vs Bayer products

The INKEY List vs Bayer serums and treatments

Questions and answers

The INKEY List or Bayer: which is better?

The INKEY List has a much wider range of products on this page than Bayer, fitting sensitive skin, acne-prone skin, and skin with dark spots best. Reviewers often note that the products on this page are affordable and feature hydrating moisturizers.

Which brand is older, The INKEY List or Bayer?

Bayer was founded much earlier, in 1863 in Germany, whereas The INKEY List was founded in 2018 in the United Kingdom.

Which brand was founded in Germany?

Bayer was founded in Germany in 1863.

Which brand offers products with a Superior Lovi fit level for dry skin?

The INKEY List offers products on this page with a Superior Lovi fit level for dry skin, specifically the Caffeine Eye Cream, Oat Cleansing Balm, and Polyglutamic Acid Serum. Bayer does not feature any products with a Superior fit for dry skin.

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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