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Paula's Choice vs Sudocrem

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Paula's Choice and Sudocrem are distinct skincare lines serving different complexions through contrasting formulations. The American brand launched in 1995 and owned by Unilever since 2021 offers serums, cleansers, moisturizers, toners, and more, built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and vitamin c, while the second option is beloved for classic healing formulations and protective antiseptic creams. Paula's Choice products fit combination skin and oily skin best, whereas the healing creams suit sensitive, dry, and irritated skin best. Both brands differ in their ingredients and specific target types, with glycerin significantly increasing skin hydration and restored barrier function for the former and time-tested ingredients delivering gentle care and reliable relief for the latter.

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

Popular Paula's Choice vs Sudocrem products

Questions and answers

Paula's Choice or Sudocrem: which is better?

Paula's Choice offers a wide range of targeted treatments with a Superior Lovi fit for combination, oily, and acne-prone skin, whereas Sudocrem's Antiseptic Healing Cream generally shows low fit levels across most skin types.

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

Paula's Choice offers a wide range of targeted serums, exfoliants, and moisturizers that fit combination, oily, and acne-prone skin best, whereas Sudocrem only features an antiseptic healing cream with mostly lower fit levels across skin types. Paula's Choice products on this page list no fragrance and rely on key ingredients like niacinamide and retinol, which may help improve skin aging and pigmentation.

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

Sudocrem is generally more affordable, whereas high price is mostly mentioned as a downside for Paula's choice products on this page.

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

Paula's Choice has a superior or high Lovi fit for acne-prone and oily skin types across the products on this page, whereas Sudocrem's Antiseptic Healing Cream is rated with caution for those skin types.

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

Paula's Choice was founded in 1995 in the United States and is owned by Unilever since 2021, while Sudocrem was founded in 1931 and is owned by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. since 2016.

How does the Lovi fit level for dry skin compare between Paula's Choice's Pro-Collagen Multi-Peptide Booster and Sudocrem's Antiseptic Healing Cream?

Paula's Choice's Pro-Collagen Multi-Peptide Booster has a Superior Lovi fit level for dry skin, while Sudocrem's Antiseptic Healing Cream has a Low fit level for dry skin.

Which key ingredients are present across the products listed for Paula's Choice?

The products on this page for Paula's Choice contain key ingredients such as hyaluronic acid, glycerin, vitamin c, licorice root, niacinamide, salicylic acid, green tea, and vitamin e.

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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