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Kiehl's vs ILIA Beauty

Kiehl's and ILIA Beauty are established skincare brands that offer reliable daily care through thoughtfully crafted formulations. The American house, founded in 1851, is beloved for dependable moisturizers, serums, toners, eye products, and more that incorporate nourishing glycerin and squalane, suiting mature skin and skin with dark spots best. Meanwhile, the Canadian maker, founded in 2011, is widely loved for its thoughtful moisturizers and the nourishing nature of its formulas, suiting dry, normal, and combination skin best. While both elevate daily routines with carefully balanced compositions, they differ in their foundational ingredients and specific target concerns.

Kiehl's is an American skincare brand founded in 1851 and owned by L'Oréal S.A. since 2000.

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

Questions and answers

Kiehl's or ILIA Beauty: which is better?

Kiehl's offers a much larger selection of skincare products on this page compared to ILIA Beauty, which only lists a single moisturizer. Lovi rates Kiehl's as having high to superior fit levels for various skin types across cleansers, toners, and serums, whereas ILIA Beauty provides average fit levels for its sole product.

What is the difference between Kiehl's and ILIA Beauty?

Kiehl's offers a wide selection of skincare products on this page across multiple routines, whereas ILIA Beauty features only a single moisturizer. Kiehl's products on this page fit mature skin, skin with dark spots, and combination skin best.

Kiehl's or ILIA Beauty: which moisturizer is better?

When choosing between moisturizers from the products on this page, Kiehl's offers a wide variety with specific fit levels like Superior for dry skin, whereas ILIA Beauty features just one option, The Base Face Milk, which achieves Average fit levels across all skin types.

Which is more affordable, Kiehl's or ILIA Beauty?

The products on this page for Kiehl's have a high price point according to reviewers, while ILIA Beauty has only one product listed on this page and no pricing data is provided to compare affordability.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Kiehl's or ILIA Beauty?

ILIA Beauty products on this page list no fragrance and feature gentle options like The Base Face Milk, whereas Kiehl's reviewers sometimes note breakouts and skin irritation.

When was Kiehl's founded compared to ILIA Beauty?

Kiehl's was founded much earlier in 1851 in the United States, whereas ILIA Beauty was founded in 2011 in Canada.

Which Kiehl's products contain fragrance?

Among the products on this page, only Age Defender Moisturizer and Facial Fuel Energizing Moisture Treatment for Men list fragrance in their ingredients.

What are some key ingredients found across Kiehl's products?

Glycerin, Vitamin C, Squalane, Shea butter, and Vitamin E are key ingredients found across Kiehl's 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?

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