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The INKEY List vs Hanhoo

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The INKEY List and Hanhoo are accessible skincare brands offering targeted products for daily routines. The British brand features moisturizers, serums, toners, and eye products built around glycerin, which significantly increases skin hydration and restores barrier function, while the second option is widely loved for its carefully balanced formulas and targeted serums. Both options suit sensitive and combination skin best, with the British line also fitting mature skin, though they differ as the first relies heavily on glycerin for specific concerns like dark spots and acne, whereas the second stands out for specialized items like its Blemish Patch and T-Zone Pore Patch.

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

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

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The INKEY List vs Hanhoo serums and treatments

Questions and answers

The INKEY List or Hanhoo: which is better?

The INKEY List offers a much wider range of products with higher Lovi fit levels across most skin types compared to Hanhoo, which features only a couple of patch items on the page.

What is the difference between The INKEY List and Hanhoo?

The INKEY List offers a wide range of everyday skincare products that fit sensitive, combination, and acne-prone skin best, whereas Hanhoo offers only patch treatments like its Blemish Patch and T-Zone Pore Patch.

Which is more affordable, The INKEY List or Hanhoo?

The INKEY List offers affordable options across its range, with reviewers frequently noting affordable serums and affordable moisturizers, whereas the Hanhoo products on this page do not feature affordability highlights.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The INKEY List or Hanhoo?

The products on this page for The INKEY List and Hanhoo do not provide comparative breakout data, though reviewers note that The INKEY List sometimes causes purging and breakouts. Every product on both pages lists no fragrance in its ingredients.

Between The INKEY List and Hanhoo, which brand was founded earlier?

Between The INKEY List and Hanhoo, Hanhoo was founded earlier in 2008, whereas The INKEY List was founded in 2018.

Do products from either The INKEY List or Hanhoo contain fragrance in their ingredients?

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

Which brand offers a greater variety of products listed on the page?

The INKEY List offers a greater variety of products on this page, featuring multiple cleansers, serums, toners, and moisturizers compared to Hanhoo, which only lists patches.

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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