MAC and Blume are Canadian skincare brands designed to support daily maintenance and a healthy complexion. The former brand is beloved for its reliable moisturizers and makeup removers crafted from carefully balanced formulas, while the latter is widely loved for its nourishing moisturizers and thoughtful formulas. Both brands suit balanced and sensitive skin best, with the first brand relying on gentle and effective ingredients and the second offering targeted solutions like the Meltdown Gel Cream. They differ primarily in their founding years, ownership structures, and the breadth of their specialized product lines.
MAC is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 1984 and owned by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. since 1994.
This page compares some of the most popular MAC and Blume products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Blume is better for sensitive skin because the products on this page are fragrance-free, whereas MAC products on this page contain fragrance and may trigger sensitivity. For dry sensitive skin, certain MAC products like Mineralize Timecheck Lotion achieve a High fit on Lovi.
What is the difference between MAC and Blume?
Blume is an independent Canadian brand offering fragrance-free products like Meltdown Gel Cream, whereas MAC is owned by Estee Lauder and includes fragrance in the products on this page. For dry skin, Blume gets a High fit from Lovi, while MAC features options like Mineralize Timecheck Lotion that also earn a High fit.
MAC or Blume: which moisturizer is better?
Blume has a High fit for acne-prone, oily, dry, and sensitive skin with its Meltdown Gel Cream, whereas MAC moisturizers have a High fit for specific needs like dry sensitive skin or dry skin. Blume products on this page list no fragrance, while all MAC products on this page contain fragrance.
Which is more affordable, MAC or Blume?
Blume tends to be more affordable, while reviewers often mention that MAC has a high price point.
Which causes fewer breakouts, MAC or Blume?
Blume fits acne-prone skin with a High Lovi rating across its products on this page, while MAC products on this page have an Average fit for acne-prone skin. Blume is also fragrance-free, whereas MAC products on this page all contain fragrance.
MAC or Blume: which brand offers products with no fragrance?
Blume offers products with no fragrance on this page, as every Blume product lists no fragrance in its ingredients, whereas all MAC products on this page contain fragrance.
How do the founding years and corporate ownership of MAC and Blume compare?
MAC was founded in Canada in 1984 and has been owned by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. since 1994, whereas Blume was founded in Canada in 2018 and remains independently owned.
Which brand has more products listed on the page for dry sensitive skin?
MAC has more products listed on the page for dry sensitive skin, offering three options including the Hyper Real Serumizer, Mineralize Timecheck Lotion, and Hyper Real Fresh Canvas Cleansing Oil. In comparison, Blume features only one product on this page for that skin type.
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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.
