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Paula's Choice vs MAËLYS

Paula's Choice and MAËLYS are prominent skincare brands offering distinct approaches to everyday wellness. The American brand, founded in 1995 and owned by Unilever since 2021, features serums, cleansers, moisturizers, toners, and more built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and vitamin c, suiting combination skin and oily skin best with key ingredients like glycerin that significantly increase skin hydration and restore barrier function. Meanwhile, the second brand is loved for targeted serums and advanced formulas that suit all skin types best, delivering thoughtful care through specialized solutions. While Paula's Choice relies on proven foundational compounds for specific complexions, MAËLYS focuses on targeted body and facial care.

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

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This page compares some of the most popular Paula's Choice and MAËLYS 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 MAËLYS: which is better?

Paula's Choice is a better option than MAËLYS because its extensive range of fragrance-free products achieves significantly higher Lovi fit levels across nearly all skin types. Ingredients like retinol and niacinamide help improve skin texture and reduce signs of aging.

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What is the difference between Paula's Choice and MAËLYS?

Paula's Choice offers a wide range of fragrance-free skincare products with Superior to High Lovi fit levels for acne-prone, oily, and combination skin, whereas MAËLYS features body and targeted serums with mostly Low or Average fit levels. Paula's Choice is backed by key active ingredients like niacinamide and retinol, which help improve skin aging and pigmentation.

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Which is more affordable, Paula's Choice or MAËLYS?

Reviews mostly mention that Paula's Choice has a high price, while pricing details for MAËLYS are not discussed on the page.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Paula's Choice or MAËLYS?

Paula's Choice offers many products with a Superior or High Lovi fit for acne-prone skin and helps reduce breakouts, whereas MAËLYS has a Low fit for acne-prone skin on this page and is unlikely to help.

Between Paula's Choice and MAËLYS, which brand was founded earlier and in which country?

Paula's Choice was founded earlier, in 1995 in the United States, whereas MAËLYS was founded in 2017.

How do the fragrance options differ between Paula's Choice and MAËLYS products on this page?

Paula's Choice offers fragrance-free options across all the products on this page, whereas MAËLYS includes fragrance in at least one of its products.

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?

Scan your face, then any product: Lovi shows how well it fits you and what fits even better.