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Paula's Choice vs ILIA Beauty

Paula's Choice and ILIA Beauty are established skincare brands offering distinct approaches to daily routines. The American brand, founded in 1995, focuses on serums, cleansers, moisturizers, and toners built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and vitamin c, suiting combination and oily skin best. Meanwhile, the Canadian brand, founded in 2011, is widely loved for its thoughtful moisturizers and nourishing formulas that suit dry, normal, and combination skin. While both refine complexions through quality ingredients, they differ significantly in their targeted skin types and core compositions.

Paula's Choice is an American skincare brand founded in 1995 and owned by Unilever since 2021.

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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 Paula's Choice and ILIA Beauty products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Questions and answers

Paula's Choice or ILIA Beauty: which is better?

Paula's Choice offers a much wider range of products that Lovi rates as Superior or High for combination, oily, and acne-prone skin, whereas ILIA Beauty features only a single moisturizer with an Average fit across skin types. Niacinamide helps reduce pigmentation, supporting its effectiveness in both brands' targeted treatments.

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Paula's Choice or ILIA Beauty: which moisturizer is better?

Paula's Choice offers a much wider range of moisturizers with specialized formulas for different skin types, whereas ILIA Beauty features just one moisturizer on this page, The Base Face Milk, which achieves Average fit levels across all skin types.

Which is more affordable, Paula's Choice or ILIA Beauty?

Reviewers mostly mention high price as an issue for Paula's Choice products on this page, while no pricing feedback is noted for ILIA Beauty.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Paula's Choice or ILIA Beauty?

Paula's Choice offers a wide selection of products with High to Superior Lovi fit levels for acne-prone skin, such as the CLEAR Pore Normalizing Cleanser. ILIA Beauty features only one facial product on this page, The Base Face Milk, which has an Average Lovi fit level for acne-prone skin.

When were Paula's Choice and ILIA Beauty founded and who currently owns them?

Paula's Choice was founded in the United States in 1995 and is currently owned by Unilever, while ILIA Beauty was founded in Canada in 2011 and is owned by Famille C.

How do the skin types that Paula's Choice fits best compare to ILIA Beauty?

Paula's Choice fits combination skin, oily skin, and acne-prone skin best, whereas ILIA Beauty has no listed skin types that it fits best on this page.

What are the main shared key ingredients across the products for both brands?

Paula's Choice features key ingredients like hyaluronic acid, glycerin, vitamin C, licorice root, niacinamide, salicylic acid, green tea, and vitamin E across the products on this page, while ILIA Beauty lists no key ingredients on its page. Hyaluronic acid helps improve skin quality and signs of aging.

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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.

How does it fit your skin?

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