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The INKEY List vs Anessa

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The INKEY List and Anessa are distinct skincare brands offering specialized daily care for varying complexions. The British line features moisturizers, serums, toners, and eye products built around glycerin, suiting combination and sensitive skin best with targeted options for acne, dark spots, and aging. Meanwhile, the Japanese brand is widely loved for advanced sunscreens and sophisticated formulas that suit all skin types with reliable daily protection. While both deliver thoughtful formulations, the former focuses on barrier-restoring ingredients like glycerin, whereas the latter emphasizes advanced sun protection.

The INKEY List is a British skincare brand founded in 2018 and owned by Brand Evangelists for Beauty Limited.

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Anessa is a Japanese skincare brand founded in 1992 and owned by Shiseido Company, Limited.

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This page compares some of the most popular The INKEY List and Anessa products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Popular The INKEY List vs Anessa products

Questions and answers

The INKEY List or Anessa: which is better?

The INKEY List offers a wide variety of affordable cleansers, serums, and moisturizers that fit combination, sensitive, and oily acne-prone skin best, whereas Anessa focuses exclusively on sunscreens. Every product on both pages lists no fragrance in its ingredients.

What is the difference between The INKEY List and Anessa?

The INKEY List offers a wide range of affordable skincare products like cleansers, serums, and moisturizers that Lovi rates best for combination, sensitive, and oily acne-prone skin, whereas Anessa focuses strictly on sunscreens.

Which is more affordable, The INKEY List or Anessa?

The products on this page for The INKEY List feature affordable moisturizers and serums according to reviewer mentions, whereas the Anessa page features sunscreens without affordability mentions.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The INKEY List or Anessa?

The products on this page for The INKEY List include items with low to high fit levels for acne-prone skin, while Anessa features sunscreens with high fit levels for acne-prone skin, though neither brand has a definitive breakout rating.

When and where were The INKEY List and Anessa founded, and which parent companies own them?

The INKEY List was founded in 2018 in the United Kingdom and is owned by Brand Evangelists for Beauty Limited, while Anessa was founded in 1992 in Japan and is owned by Shiseido Company, Limited.

Do any products from The INKEY List or Anessa contain added fragrance in their ingredients?

Every product on this page from The INKEY List and Anessa lists no fragrance in its ingredients.

How does the Lovi fit level for the Perfect UV Sunscreen Skincare Milk compare between dry skin and oily skin?

For Anessa's Perfect UV Sunscreen Skincare Milk, Lovi rates the fit level as Average for dry skin and High for oily skin.

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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