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The INKEY List vs ILIA Beauty

Rated by Lovi · Unbiased, science-based skincare AI trained on real user outcomes · How the Fit score works

The INKEY List and ILIA Beauty are distinct beauty brands offering thoughtful formulations tailored to different complexions. The British skincare brand centers its moisturizers, serums, toners, and eye products around glycerin to suit combination and sensitive skin best, while the Canadian skincare brand is widely loved for the nourishing nature of its moisturizers suited for dry, normal, and combination skin. Both lines feature standout options for acne-prone skin, with the former also providing targeted solutions for dark spots and mature skin.

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

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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 The INKEY List and ILIA Beauty products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Popular The INKEY List vs ILIA Beauty products

The INKEY List vs ILIA Beauty moisturizers

Questions and answers

The INKEY List or ILIA Beauty: which is better?

The INKEY List offers a much wider range of products on this page than ILIA Beauty, featuring various serums, toners, and moisturizers suited for combination, sensitive, and oily skin. Reviewers often mention that The INKEY List provides affordable and hydrating options, whereas ILIA Beauty only features a single moisturizer on the page.

What is the difference between The INKEY List and ILIA Beauty?

The INKEY List offers sixteen products on this page featuring ingredients like glycerin, whereas ILIA Beauty features only one moisturizer called The Base Face Milk. The INKEY List fits combination, sensitive, and oily skin best, while ILIA Beauty lists no specific best-fit skin types.

The INKEY List or ILIA Beauty: which moisturizer is better?

The INKEY List offers a wide variety of moisturizers with different Lovi fit levels across skin types, such as the Polyglutamic Acid Serum having a Superior fit for dry skin, whereas ILIA Beauty features only one moisturizer on this page, The Base Face Milk, which has an Average fit across all skin types.

Which is more affordable, The INKEY List or ILIA Beauty?

The products on this page for The INKEY List feature affordable moisturizers and affordable serums, whereas ILIA Beauty has no pricing advantages mentioned.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The INKEY List or ILIA Beauty?

The INKEY List products on this page sometimes have reviewers noting purging and breakouts, while ILIA Beauty only features The Base Face Milk with average fit levels across skin types and no breakout mentions.

Between The INKEY List and ILIA Beauty, which brand was founded earlier and in which country?

ILIA Beauty was founded earlier in 2011 in Canada, whereas The INKEY List was founded in 2018 in the United Kingdom.

How does the Lovi fit level for dry skin compare between The INKEY List's The Base Face Milk and ILIA Beauty's moisturizers?

ILIA Beauty does not have a moisturizer named The Base Face Milk on this page, as that product belongs to The INKEY List range where it is not listed; instead, ILIA Beauty features The Base Face Milk on its page with an Average Lovi fit level for dry skin.

Do both The INKEY List and ILIA Beauty formulate their products without fragrance?

Yes, both The INKEY List and ILIA Beauty formulate the products on this page without fragrance in their ingredients.

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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