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Clarins vs ILIA Beauty

Rated by Lovi · Unbiased, science-based skincare AI trained on real user outcomes · How the Fit score works

Clarins and ILIA Beauty are established skincare houses that offer thoughtful moisturizers and nourishing formulations. The French brand is known for targeted serums, delicate eye products, and refreshing toners featuring soothing shea and replenishing squalane, suiting sensitive and mature skin best. Meanwhile, the Canadian brand focuses on clean, conscious beauty that suits dry, normal, and combination skin. While both share a parent company, they differ in their heritage and specific botanical approaches, with the former emphasizing firming and restorative care and the latter refining daily hydration routines.

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

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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 Clarins and ILIA Beauty products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Popular Clarins vs ILIA Beauty products

Clarins vs ILIA Beauty moisturizers

Questions and answers

Clarins or ILIA Beauty: which is better?

Clarins offers a much wider range of products on this page with High and Superior fit levels for sensitive, mature, and dry sensitive skin, whereas ILIA Beauty features only a single moisturizer with Average fit across skin types. Clarins products often feature hydrating and smoothing formulas containing ingredients like hyaluronic acid which helps improve skin quality.

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What is the difference between Clarins and ILIA Beauty?

Clarins is an older, French brand with a wide range of fragranced products that Lovi rates best for sensitive, mature, and dry sensitive skin. In contrast, ILIA Beauty is a newer Canadian brand featuring fragrance-free products on this page.

Clarins or ILIA Beauty: which moisturizer is better?

Clarins offers a wider range of moisturizers compared to ILIA Beauty, which only features The Base Face Milk on this page. Clarins moisturizers like Hydra-Essentiel Silky Cream help hydrate dry skin with a High fit level.

Which is more affordable, Clarins or ILIA Beauty?

The products on this page for Clarins have a high price point according to reviewers, while ILIA Beauty is not discussed in terms of affordability.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Clarins or ILIA Beauty?

ILIA Beauty features products on this page that may be less likely to cause breakouts compared to Clarins, which includes several formulations that receive a Caution rating for acne-prone skin.

How do Clarins and ILIA Beauty compare in terms of fragrance use across their product lines?

Clarins includes fragrance in almost all of the products on this page, whereas ILIA Beauty lists no fragrance in any of its products. Reviewers often mention strong fragrance as a drawback for Clarins.

Which brand has been around longer and where were Clarins and ILIA Beauty founded?

Clarins has been around longer, having been founded in France in 1954, whereas ILIA Beauty was founded in Canada in 2011.

What skin types do Clarins brand-focused routines fit best?

Clarins brand-focused routines fit sensitive skin, mature skin, and dry sensitive skin best.

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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