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The INKEY List vs Blume

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The INKEY List and Blume are two skincare brands founded in 2018, offering nourishing moisturizers, serums, toners, eye products, and gentle formulas. The British brand relies heavily on glycerin to significantly increase skin hydration and restore barrier function, while the Canadian brand is widely loved for supporting a balanced and healthy complexion through thoughtful formulations. Both brands suit sensitive skin and acne-prone skin best, though the former also caters to mature skin and dark spots with targeted treatments like its PHA Toner, Azelaic Acid Serum, and Ceramide Moisturizer, whereas the latter specifically extends its gentle care to dry skin with products like the Meltdown Gel Cream.

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

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Blume is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2018.

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

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The INKEY List vs Blume moisturizers

Questions and answers

The INKEY List or Blume: which is better?

The INKEY List offers a much wider variety of products on this page compared to Blume, which features only a single moisturizer. Reviewers note that The INKEY List provides affordable and fast-absorbing options.

What is the difference between The INKEY List and Blume?

The INKEY List offers a wide variety of cleansers, toners, serums, and moisturizers that fit sensitive skin and acne-prone skin well, whereas Blume features just a single moisturizer on this page called Meltdown Gel Cream.

The INKEY List or Blume: which moisturizer is better?

The INKEY List offers a much wider selection of moisturizers on this page compared to Blume, which features only one, the Meltdown Gel Cream. For specific needs like dry skin, products on this page like The INKEY List Polyglutamic Acid Serum achieve a Superior fit level.

Which is more affordable, The INKEY List or Blume?

The INKEY List offers affordable options across its serums and moisturizers on this page. Blume has only a single moisturizer listed, so a direct comparison on overall affordability is not available.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The INKEY List or Blume?

The INKEY List products on this page sometimes note purging and breakouts.

Which brand has been around longer and where were they founded, The INKEY List or Blume?

Both The INKEY List and Blume were founded in 2018, with The INKEY List originating in the United Kingdom and Blume founded in Canada.

Do products from The INKEY List or Blume contain any fragrance in their ingredients?

Every product on this page from The INKEY List and Blume lists no fragrance in its ingredients.

Which brand offers a wider variety of skincare products on this page, The INKEY List or Blume?

The INKEY List offers a much wider variety of skincare products on this page, featuring sixteen different options compared to just one from Blume.

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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