Weleda vs Catrice
Weleda and Catrice are established European skincare brands offering distinct approaches to daily beauty routines. The Swiss pioneer, founded in 1921, is known for rich moisturizers with gentle botanical bases that suit sensitive skin best, featuring the Skin Food line for dark spots and targeted acne relief. Conversely, the German manufacturer, founded in 2004, is beloved for refined eye products and advanced formulations that suit combination, oily, and normal skin best, including the Under Eye Brightener for acne-prone skin. While both deliver reliable daily performance, the brands differ through their specific ingredient philosophies and ideal skin matches.
Weleda is a Swiss skincare brand founded in 1921 and owned by Weleda AG.
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Catrice is a German skincare brand founded in 2004 and owned by cosnova.
This page compares some of the most popular Weleda and Catrice products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Questions and answers
Weleda or Catrice: which is better?
Catrice Under Eye Brightener gets a High fit on dry and sensitive skin, and Lovi rates Weleda Skin Food as a High fit on dry and dry sensitive skin. Both brands are free of harsh irritants, but Weleda's products on this page contain fragrance.
What is the difference between Weleda and Catrice?
Weleda offers moisturizers like Skin Food that carry fragrance and have high Lovi fit for dry skin, whereas Catrice features an Under Eye Brightener that lists no fragrance and also achieves a High Lovi fit for dry and sensitive skin.
Which is more affordable, Weleda or Catrice?
The page facts do not mention the prices of Weleda and Catrice products, so it is not possible to say which brand is more affordable.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Weleda or Catrice?
Catrice Under Eye Brightener has an Average Lovi fit for acne-prone skin, whereas Weleda products on this page such as Skin Food range from Low fit to Caution for breakout-prone skin types. This means Catrice is unlikely to clog pores as much as the richer Weleda moisturizers, which contain heavy oils that may cause breakouts.
Which brand is older, Weleda or Catrice?
Weleda is the older brand, having been founded in Switzerland in 1921, whereas Catrice was founded in Germany in 2004.
Do Weleda products contain fragrance?
Yes, all the Weleda products on this page list fragrance in their ingredients.
Which company owns Catrice?
Catrice is owned by cosnova.
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.
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