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Kiehl's vs MAËLYS

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Kiehl's and MAËLYS are skincare brands that offer reliable daily solutions. Kiehl's is an American brand founded in 1851 and owned by L'Oréal S.A. since 2000, beloved for dependable moisturizers, serums, toners, eye products, and more that incorporate nourishing glycerin and squalane, while MAËLYS is loved for targeted serums and advanced formulas. The former suits mature skin and skin with dark spots best, owing to carefully balanced formulations, whereas products from the latter suit all skin types best. They differ primarily in their focus, with both delivering thoughtful care through specialized solutions like the Calendula Herbal-Extract Toner, Calendula Deep Cleansing Foaming Face Wash, Ultra Facial Toner, TOO-FINE, and RE-LURE Tight & Tone Body Serum.

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

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This page compares some of the most popular Kiehl's and MAËLYS products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Popular Kiehl's vs MAËLYS products

Kiehl's vs MAËLYS serums and treatments

Questions and answers

Kiehl's or MAËLYS: which is better?

Kiehl's is the better option on this page because its products offer high to superior Lovi fit levels across multiple skin types, unlike MAËLYS where the products on this page mostly show low fit levels.

What is the difference between Kiehl's and MAËLYS?

Kiehl's offers a wide range of facial care products with High and Superior Lovi fit levels for several skin types, whereas MAËLYS features only two body and targeted serums with mostly Low fit levels across skin types.

Which is more affordable, Kiehl's or MAËLYS?

Reviewers on the page often note that Kiehl's products have a high price point, while the page does not provide pricing information to compare the affordability of MAËLYS.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Kiehl's or MAËLYS?

Kiehl's features several products on this page that achieve High fit levels for acne-prone skin, such as the Calendula Herbal-Extract Toner, whereas MAËLYS offers very limited options that rate low for acne-prone skin.

How do the founding years and corporate ownership of Kiehl's and MAËLYS compare?

Kiehl's was founded in 1851 in the United States and has been owned by L'Oréal S.A. since 2000, whereas MAËLYS was founded in 2017 and is owned by the Barinboim Group.

Which brand offers more fragrance-free products, Kiehl's or MAËLYS?

Kiehl's offers significantly more fragrance-free products than MAËLYS, with 26 out of 28 products on this page listing no fragrance. In comparison, MAËLYS only features 2 products on the page, with 1 of them containing fragrance.

How does the Lovi fit level for dry skin differ across the product lineups of Kiehl's and MAËLYS?

For dry skin, Kiehl's offers products on this page with Lovi fit levels ranging from Superior to Warning, whereas MAËLYS has a Low fit level.

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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