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Kiehl's vs DHC

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Kiehl's and DHC are skincare brands that offer reliable daily care for a balanced complexion. The American label is beloved for thoughtful moisturizers, serums, toners, eye products, and more that incorporate nourishing glycerin and squalane, suiting skin with dark spots and combination skin best. Meanwhile, the Japanese brand is beloved for its effective makeup removers and nourishing formulas, suiting dry, normal, combination, and oily skin best. While both cater to varied needs, they differ in their founding eras, ownership, and signature ingredient profiles.

Kiehl's is an American skincare brand founded in 1851 and owned by L'Oréal S.A. since 2000.

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DHC is a Japanese skincare brand founded in 1980 and owned by ORIX Corporation since 2023.

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

Popular Kiehl's vs DHC products

Questions and answers

Kiehl's or DHC: which is better?

Kiehl's offers a broad selection of products on this page covering multiple skin types and concerns, whereas DHC features just two cleansing oils. Reviewers note that Kiehl's provides lightweight moisturizers and gentle serums, though some users mention a high price point and occasional skin irritation.

What is the difference between Kiehl's and DHC?

Kiehl's offers a wide range of skincare products on this page featuring key ingredients like glycerin and vitamin C, with fit levels varying by skin type such as high for combination and mature skin. In contrast, DHC provides a much smaller selection of fragrance-free products on this page, focused heavily on cleansing oils like Pore Cleansing Oil which achieves a superior fit for sensitive skin.

Which is more affordable, Kiehl's or DHC?

Reviewers often note that Kiehl's products have a high price point. The products on this page for DHC do not have pricing mentioned.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Kiehl's or DHC?

DHC products on this page list no fragrance and feature gentle cleansing oils, whereas reviewers note that Kiehl's products sometimes cause breakouts and skin irritation.

How do the founding years and countries of origin compare between Kiehl's and DHC?

Kiehl's was founded in 1851 in the United States, whereas DHC was founded in 1980 in Japan.

Which brand offers a wider variety of products on this page, and how do their fragrance formulations differ?

Kiehl's offers a much wider variety of products on this page across multiple categories like cleansers, serums, and moisturizers, whereas DHC features only two cleansing oil products. For fragrance formulations, Kiehl's includes fragrance in 2 of its 28 products while leaving the rest fragrance-free, whereas DHC includes no fragrance in any of its products on this page.

What are the main customer complaints regarding Kiehl's products, and do reviewers mention similar issues for DHC?

Reviewers often mention a high price point, breakouts, skin irritation, and products not being rich or effective enough regarding Kiehl's products, while being mostly lightweight and gentle. Review data for DHC on this page is limited to two cleansing oils and does not mention customer complaints. The products on this page for both brands feature fragrance-free options mostly.

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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