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Avène vs ILIA Beauty

Rated by Lovi · Unbiased, science-based skincare AI trained on real user outcomes · How the Fit score works

Avène and ILIA Beauty are distinct skincare houses rooted in clinical gentleness and conscious formulation, respectively. The French brand centers its moisturizers, sunscreens, targeted serums, and cleansers on glycerin to suit oily, acne-prone, and combination skin, featuring standout items like the Tolerance Control Soothing Skin Recovery Balm, the Cleanance line, and the Hyaluron Activ B3 Concentrated Plumping Serum. Conversely, the Canadian brand offers thoughtful moisturizers tailored best to dry, normal, and combination skin, with nourishing compositions that include The Base Face Milk for acne-prone skin. While both prioritize skin health through hydrating ingredients, they differ significantly in their founding origins, proprietary ingredient focuses, and ideal skin-type matches.

Avène is a French skincare brand founded in 1990 and owned by Fondation Pierre Fabre.

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ILIA Beauty is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2011 and owned by Famille C since 2022.

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

Popular Avène vs ILIA Beauty products

Questions and answers

Avène or ILIA Beauty: which is better?

Neither brand is universally better, as Avène offers a wide range of specialized products tailored for oily and acne-prone skin, whereas ILIA Beauty features only The Base Face Milk on this page. Reviewers note that Avène provides gentle cleansers and sunscreens, though some products contain fragrance, while all ILIA Beauty products on this page list no fragrance.

What is the difference between Avène and ILIA Beauty?

Avène offers a wide variety of products on this page suited for oily and acne-prone skin, whereas ILIA Beauty lists only The Base Face Milk. Avène also includes fragrance in several of its formulas, while every product on this page from ILIA Beauty lists no fragrance.

Avène or ILIA Beauty: which moisturizer is better?

For moisturizers, Avène provides products on this page with varying fit levels such as High for dry skin with Tolerance Control Soothing Skin Recovery Balm, while ILIA Beauty offers The Base Face Milk with an Average fit for dry skin. Glycerin is a key ingredient across Avène products that helps support skin hydration.

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Which is more affordable, Avène or ILIA Beauty?

Price point is sometimes noted as a negative aspect for the products on this page by Avène reviewers, while no pricing information is available for ILIA Beauty.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Avène or ILIA Beauty?

When it comes to acne-prone skin, Avène offers multiple targeted options across its range, whereas ILIA Beauty only features a single moisturizer, The Base Face Milk, which has an Average fit for oily acne-prone skin. Avène includes products specifically suited for acne-prone skin, such as Cleanance sunscreen and Cleanance Cleansing Gel, which both achieve a High fit level for that skin type.

When was each brand founded and where are their company headquarters located?

Avène was founded in 1990 in France, while ILIA Beauty was founded in 2011 in Canada.

How many products from Avène contain added fragrance compared to ILIA Beauty?

7 of the 15 products on the Avène page list added fragrance, while every product on the ILIA Beauty page lists no fragrance in its ingredients.

What are the key shared ingredients found across the Avène products?

The key shared ingredients found across the Avène products on this page are thermal water and glycerin.

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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