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Kiehl's vs Environ

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Kiehl's and Environ are distinct skincare brands offering a range of treatments tailored to individual needs. The American brand, founded in 1851, is known for its nourishing moisturizers, targeted serums, soothing toners, and gentle eye products utilizing dependable ingredients like glycerin and squalane, whereas the latter is widely loved for its luxurious masks and advanced formulas. Both suit sensitive and mature skin best, while Kiehl's also suits sensitive skin through gentle formulations and barrier-supporting properties. They differ because the former relies on glycerin to increase hydration and squalane to counteract oxidative stress, while each carefully crafted treatment from the latter works to gently support overall skin health.

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 Environ products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Popular Kiehl's vs Environ products

Questions and answers

Kiehl's or Environ: which is better?

Kiehl's offers a much larger selection of products on this page compared to Environ, with tailored routines that feature high fit levels for mature skin, sensitive skin, and skin with dark spots. Reviewers frequently note that Kiehl's delivers deep hydration and lightweight moisturizers, though some users mention a high price point and potential skin irritation.

What is the difference between Kiehl's and Environ?

Kiehl's offers a wide range of cleansers, toners, serums, and moisturizers that fit mature skin, sensitive skin, and skin with dark spots well, whereas Environ features only a single mask on this page with lower fit levels for those skin types. Kiehl's products frequently help provide deep hydration and improve skin texture using key ingredients like glycerin and vitamin C.

Which is more affordable, Kiehl's or Environ?

The provided page facts do not mention the prices of Environ products, while reviewers often note that Kiehl's has a high price point.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Kiehl's or Environ?

Environ features only a single mask on the page and lacks specific breakout ratings, whereas Kiehl's offers various products with high fit levels for acne-prone skin, though reviewers note that Kiehl's may sometimes cause breakouts.

Which brand offers more fragrance-free options, Kiehl's or Environ?

Kiehl's offers more fragrance-free options on this page, with 26 out of 28 products listing no fragrance, while Environ also lists no fragrance for every product on its page.

How do the foundation years and parent companies of Kiehl's and Environ compare?

Kiehl's was founded in the United States in 1851 and has been owned by L'Oréal S.A. since 2000, whereas Environ was founded in 1990 and remains independently owned.

Which Kiehl's products are rated as 'Superior' for oily acne-prone skin?

For oily acne-prone skin, Lovi rates the Calendula Deep Cleansing Foaming Face Wash, the Calendula Herbal-Extract Toner, the Rare Earth Deep Pore Daily Cleanser, and the Ultra Facial Oil-Free Cleanser as Superior.

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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