Weleda vs ILIA Beauty
Weleda and ILIA Beauty are established botanical lines known for their thoughtful moisturizers and nourishing, meticulously crafted formulas. The Swiss heritage brand suits sensitive skin best, offering rich compositions like Skin Food Light for acne-prone areas and original Skin Food for dark spots, while the Canadian brand suits dry, normal, and combination skin best, featuring hydrating daily staples like The Base Face Milk. Ultimately, both offer clean, conscious beauty, differing in their specific ingredient bases and target complexions.
Weleda is a Swiss skincare brand founded in 1921 and owned by Weleda AG.
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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 Weleda 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
Weleda or ILIA Beauty: which is better?
Neither brand is universally better, as Weleda offers High fit for dry and dry sensitive skin with its Skin Food moisturizer, while ILIA Beauty provides Average fit across all skin types with The Base Face Milk. Lovi rates Weleda's products with fragrance, whereas ILIA Beauty's products on this page list no fragrance.
What is the difference between Weleda and ILIA Beauty?
Weleda was founded in Switzerland in 1921 and its products on this page contain fragrance, whereas ILIA Beauty was founded in Canada in 2011 and every product on this page lists no fragrance. Lovi rates Weleda's Skin Food as a High fit for dry skin and dry sensitive skin, while ILIA Beauty's The Base Face Milk gets an Average fit across all listed skin types.
Weleda or ILIA Beauty: which moisturizer is better?
For dry skin, Weleda is a better choice because its Skin Food moisturizer achieves a High Lovi fit, whereas ILIA Beauty's The Base Face Milk reaches an Average fit.
Which is more affordable, Weleda or ILIA Beauty?
The provided page facts do not mention the prices of products from Weleda or ILIA Beauty, so it is not possible to say which brand is more affordable.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Weleda or ILIA Beauty?
ILIA Beauty is less likely to cause breakouts because its products on this page have an Average fit for acne-prone skin, whereas Weleda's Skin Food products have a Low fit or carry a Caution for acne-prone and oily skin.
Which brand has been around longer, Weleda or ILIA Beauty?
Weleda has been around much longer than ILIA Beauty, having been founded in Switzerland in 1921 compared to ILIA Beauty which was founded in Canada in 2011.
Do Weleda and ILIA Beauty products contain fragrance?
Weleda products on this page contain fragrance, whereas every ILIA Beauty product on this page lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
Where were Weleda and ILIA Beauty founded?
Weleda was founded in Switzerland, while ILIA Beauty was founded in Canada.
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.
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Cosmetic chemist, cosmetologist, aesthetic products developer
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PhD in computer science, 3x US patent holder, ex-Google, ex-Yandex
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Dr. Sofía Perea Pérez, MD, MSc
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Aesthetic medicine practitioner, MSc in Longevity and Anti-Aging Medicine
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Specialist dermatologist, MBBS, MD, IFAAD
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Dermatology MD
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Elina Nazarenko, MD
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Dermatology and diagnostic consultant
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Victoria Derkova, MS
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Cosmetic chemist, cosmetic development technologist
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