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The INKEY List vs Blume

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The INKEY List and Blume are two accessible skincare brands founded in 2018. The British brand features moisturizers, serums, toners, and eye products built around glycerin, suiting combination and sensitive skin best, with standout items like the PHA Toner and Azelaic Acid Serum. Meanwhile, the Canadian brand is widely loved for its nourishing moisturizers and thoughtful formulas, which suit sensitive, acne-prone, and dry skin best with options like the Meltdown Gel Cream. While both brands support a balanced and healthy complexion, they differ in their specific ingredient focuses and regional origins.

The INKEY List is a British skincare brand founded in 2018 and owned by Brand Evangelists for Beauty Limited.

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Blume is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2018.

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This page compares some of the most popular The INKEY List and Blume products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

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The INKEY List vs Blume moisturizers

Questions and answers

The INKEY List or Blume: which is better?

The INKEY List is a better choice for variety because the products on this page cover sixteen different options across cleansers, toners, serums, and moisturizers, whereas Blume features only a single gel cream. Additionally, The INKEY List offers superior Lovi fits for specific skin types, such as the PHA Toner for acne-prone skin.

What is the difference between The INKEY List and Blume?

The INKEY List offers a wide range of sixteen products on this page covering various categories like cleansers, toners, serums, and moisturizers, whereas Blume features just one product, the Meltdown Gel Cream. Additionally, The INKEY List fits combination, sensitive, and oily skin best through its routines.

The INKEY List or Blume: which moisturizer is better?

The products on this page from The INKEY List include several moisturizers with high fit levels, such as the Polyglutamic Acid Serum, Omega Water Cream, and Bio-Active Ceramide Repairing and Plumping Moisturizer, whereas Blume offers only one moisturizer, the Meltdown Gel Cream.

Which is more affordable, The INKEY List or Blume?

The products on this page for The INKEY List include affordable moisturizers and affordable serums, whereas Blume has no pricing mentioned on this page.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The INKEY List or Blume?

Both brands offer products that help manage breakouts, as The INKEY List features treatments like its Salicylic Acid Cleanser which has a High fit level for acne-prone skin, while Blume offers the Meltdown Gel Cream which also has a High fit level for acne-prone skin.

Where were The INKEY List and Blume founded, and who owns them?

The INKEY List was founded in 2018 in the United Kingdom and is owned by Brand Evangelists for Beauty Limited, while Blume was founded in 2018 in Canada and is independently owned.

Do any products from The INKEY List or Blume contain fragrance in their ingredients?

Every product on this page from both The INKEY List and Blume lists no fragrance in its ingredients.

How does the Lovi fit level for dry skin compare between The INKEY List's Meltdown Gel Cream equivalent products and Blume's Meltdown Gel Cream?

The products on this page by The INKEY List feature several moisturizers with a High fit level for dry skin, such as Omega Water Cream and Bio-Active Ceramide Repairing and Plumping Moisturizer, alongside others with Superior fits like Polyglutamic Acid Serum. Blume's Meltdown Gel Cream also has a High fit level for dry skin.

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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