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Paula's Choice vs Sesderma

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

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Sesderma is a Spanish skincare brand founded in 1989 and owned by Grupo Sesderma since 2026.

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This page compares some of the most popular Paula's Choice and Sesderma 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 Sesderma: which is better?

Paula's Choice offers a much wider variety of fragrance-free products on this page, which Lovi rates as having High or Superior fit levels across multiple skin types. Sesderma features fewer options here, with its single listed serum containing fragrance.

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

Paula's Choice offers a much wider variety of fragrance-free products on this page than Sesderma, which only features a single serum that contains fragrance. Paula's Choice also covers more skin types with a high Lovi fit, while the products on this page for Sesderma are limited to just one serum.

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

Reviewers mostly note that Paula's Choice has a high price. The page facts do not provide pricing information for Sesderma.

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

Paula's Choice helps prevent breakouts better because the products on this page fit acne-prone skin with a Superior or High rating, whereas Sesderma has only one serum on this page with a High fit for acne.

Which brand has been around longer, Paula's Choice or Sesderma?

Sesderma has been around longer, having been founded in Spain in 1989, whereas Paula's Choice was founded in the United States in 1995.

Do any products from Paula's Choice or Sesderma contain fragrance?

Paula's Choice products on this page list no fragrance in their ingredients. In contrast, the Azelac RU Serum from Sesderma does contain fragrance.

What are the main skin types that Paula's Choice fits best according to its brand-focused routines?

Paula's Choice fits oily skin, combination skin, and acne-prone skin best according to its brand-focused routines.

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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