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Clarins vs Valmont

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Clarins and Valmont are esteemed European skincare houses that offer luxurious moisturizers, potent serums, soothing eye products, and gentle toners. The French brand is known for utilizing nourishing shea and hydrating squalane, suiting sensitive and dry sensitive skin best, while the Swiss brand is celebrated for refined formulas that suit mature and dehydrated skin. They primarily differ in their geographic origins, founding years, and specific target skin types.

Clarins is a French skincare brand founded in 1954 and owned by Famille C (Groupe Clarins).

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Valmont is a Swiss skincare brand founded in 1985.

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

Popular Clarins vs Valmont products

Clarins vs Valmont moisturizers

Questions and answers

Clarins or Valmont: which is better?

Clarins is better for a broader range of skin types because the products on this page achieve High and Superior fit levels for sensitive, dry sensitive, and mature skin, whereas Valmont features only a single moisturizer with High and Average fits. Clarins also offers a wide selection of hydrating and smoothing moisturizers and glowing serums, though reviewers often mention a high price point and strong fragrance.

What is the difference between Clarins and Valmont?

Clarins is a French brand founded in 1954 with a large selection of products on this page, whereas Valmont is a Swiss brand founded in 1985 with only one product featured here. Furthermore, the products on this page by Clarins generally fit sensitive, dry sensitive, and mature skin best, while providing ingredients like hyaluronic acid that may help improve signs of skin aging.

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Clarins or Valmont: which moisturizer is better?

Clarins offers a much wider range of moisturizers with High and Superior Lovi fit levels for dry and mature skin types, whereas Valmont features only one moisturizer on this page with High and Average fits. Clarins moisturizers help improve hydration and reduce signs of aging using ingredients like hyaluronic acid and vitamin E.

Dermatologic Therapy, 2022Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, 2020

Which is more affordable, Clarins or Valmont?

The products on this page for Clarins and Valmont do not list specific prices, so affordability cannot be directly compared from the available details.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Clarins or Valmont?

Valmont features a single product on this page, Prime Renewing Pack, which has an Average fit for acne-prone skin. Clarins includes multiple products on this page, such as Extra-Firming Day Cream and Super Restorative Night Cream, which feature an Average fit for acne-prone skin, while Beauty Flash Balm carries a Warning for acne-prone skin.

Which brand has been around longer, Clarins or Valmont?

Clarins has been around longer, having been founded in France in 1954, whereas Valmont was founded in Switzerland in 1985.

Do both Clarins and Valmont products contain fragrance?

Yes, all products on this page for both Clarins and Valmont contain fragrance.

What are some of the key ingredients used across Clarins products?

Clarins uses key ingredients like shea butter, squalane, oat, hyaluronic acid, vitamin E, and glycerin across the products on this page. Topical hyaluronic acid helps improve skin quality and signs of skin aging, and vitamin E provides anti-aging and brightening effects.

Dermatologic Therapy, 2022Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, 2020

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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