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Paula's Choice vs MAËLYS

Paula's Choice and MAËLYS are prominent American skincare brands founded in 1995. The former features serums, cleansers, moisturizers, toners, and more built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and vitamin c, suiting oily skin and combination skin best, whereas the latter is loved for targeted serums and advanced formulas that suit all skin types best. While the first brand relies on key ingredients like glycerin to significantly increase skin hydration and restore barrier function, both deliver thoughtful care through specialized solutions.

Paula's Choice is an American skincare brand founded in 1995 and owned by Unilever since 2021.

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

Questions and answers

Paula's Choice or MAËLYS: which is better?

Paula's Choice offers a much wider range of fragrance-free products with Superior and High fit levels across various skin types, while MAËLYS mostly shows Low and Average fits on this page.

What is the difference between Paula's Choice and MAËLYS?

Paula's Choice offers a broad range of fragrance-free skincare products with Superior to High Lovi fits for oily, combination, and acne-prone skin, whereas MAËLYS features targeted body care products that generally show Low or Caution Lovi fits across various skin types. Paula's Choice relies on key ingredients like hyaluronic acid and niacinamide, which may help improve skin hydration and reduce pigmentation.

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Which is more affordable, Paula's Choice or MAËLYS?

When comparing prices on this page, Paula's Choice products are generally more expensive as reviewers note high prices, whereas MAËLYS does not have pricing drawbacks mentioned.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Paula's Choice or MAËLYS?

Paula's Choice is a better fit for acne-prone skin, achieving a Superior rating for several products on this page, while MAËLYS products on this page rate Low for acne-prone skin. The green tea in Paula's Choice helps improve acne by modulating intracellular molecular targets and inhibiting P. acnes.

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Between Paula's Choice and MAËLYS, which brand was founded earlier and in which country?

Paula's Choice was founded earlier, in 1995 in the United States, whereas MAËLYS was founded in 2017.

How does the fragrance presence compare between the products of Paula's Choice and MAËLYS?

Paula's Choice has no fragrance listed in the ingredients of any product on this page, whereas MAËLYS includes fragrance in one of its two products.

Which brand has products that achieve a Superior Lovi fit level for oily skin, Paula's Choice or MAËLYS?

Paula's Choice offers multiple products on this page that achieve a Superior Lovi fit level for oily skin, whereas MAËLYS does not.

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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