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Paula's Choice vs KORRES

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Paula's Choice and KORRES are two distinct skincare lines offering targeted daily care through carefully selected offerings. Paula's Choice is an American brand founded in 1995 and owned by Unilever since 2021, known for serums, cleansers, moisturizers, toners, and more, built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and vitamin c, while KORRES is warmly loved for its thoughtfully crafted moisturizers and cleansers, which draw on the rich heritage of its botanical formulas. The former fits combination skin and oily skin best, whereas the latter suits sensitive skin and dry skin best, owing to the gentle and nourishing nature of these ingredients. Both differ primarily because the first relies on science-backed compounds like glycerin, which significantly increased skin hydration and restored barrier function, while the second delivers reliable daily care for a balanced and healthy complexion through natural extracts.

Paula's Choice is an American skincare brand founded in 1995 and owned by Unilever since 2021.

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

Popular Paula's Choice vs KORRES products

People Say

Paula's ChoiceKORRES
  • Texture and Consistency Mostly MentionedMostly Mentioned
    • “feels like velvet — KORRES Velvet Skin Drink”
    • “absorbs instantly — KORRES Santorini Grape Poreless Skin Cream”
    • “Luxurious foam — KORRES Foaming Cream Cleanser”
    • “Absorbs quickly and leaves no greasy residue behind. — Paula's Choice Clear Oil-Free Moisturizer”
  • Gentle and Non-Irritating Formulas Often MentionedMostly Mentioned
    • “leaves face soft and smooth — KORRES Greek Yoghurt Foaming Cream Cleanser”
    • “Calms redness — KORRES Foaming Cream Cleanser”
    • “calmed my redness — KORRES Santorini Grape Poreless Skin Cream”
    • “Finally a vitamin C product I can use — Paula's Choice 25% Vitamin C + Glutathione Clinical Serum”
  • Skin Smoothing and Texture Improvement Mostly MentionedSometimes Noted
    • “skin becomes very smooth — Paula's Choice 1% Retinol Treatment”
    • “bumps be gone — Paula's Choice Weightless Body Treatment 2% BHA”
    • “skin is insanely soft — Paula's Choice Weightless Body Treatment 2% BHA”
    • “skin feels baby soft — KORRES Santorini Grape Poreless Skin Cream”
  • Hydration and Moisture Sometimes NotedMostly Mentioned
    • “saved my dry skin — KORRES Velvet Skin Drink”
    • “extremely moisturizing — KORRES Bounce Firming Moisturizer”
    • “kept me matte all day — KORRES Santorini Grape Poreless Skin Cream”
    • “Provides an internal level of hydration without leaving any heavy finish. — Paula's Choice Skin Balancing Pore-Reducing Toner”
  • Glow, Radiance, and Brightening Often MentionedRarely Noted
    • “visible glow — Paula's Choice C15 Super Booster”
    • “Discoloration almost gone — Paula's Choice 25% Vitamin C + Glutathione Clinical Serum”
    • “instantly hydrates — Paula's Choice Pro-Collagen Multi-Peptide Booster”
    • “gives a no-shine glow — KORRES Velvet Skin Drink”
  • Skin Cleansing and Pores Often MentionedNot noted
    • “cleared my bumps — Paula's Choice Skin Perfecting 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant”
    • “Helped clear my cystic acne — Paula's Choice CLEAR Pore Normalizing Cleanser”
    • “pores look smaller — Paula's Choice 10% Niacinamide Booster”
  • High Price and Value Issues Mostly MentionedOften Mentioned
    • “jar is very small — KORRES Santorini Grape Poreless Skin Cream”
    • “Expensive for cleanser — KORRES Foaming Cream Cleanser”
    • “priciest face cleanser — KORRES Greek Yoghurt Foaming Cream Cleanser”
    • “tiny tube — Paula's Choice 10% Azelaic Acid Booster”
  • Unpleasant Scent and Fragrance Often MentionedOften Mentioned
    • “smells like grain — Paula's Choice 10% Azelaic Acid Booster”
    • “smells like hot dog water — Paula's Choice C15 Super Booster”
    • “weird glue-like smell — Paula's Choice Weightless Body Treatment 2% BHA”
    • “smells like babies — KORRES Greek Yoghurt Foaming Cream Cleanser”
  • Packaging and Size Issues Often MentionedSometimes Noted
    • “Needs a pump — KORRES Foaming Cream Cleanser”
    • “hard to control amount — KORRES Greek Yoghurt Foaming Cream Cleanser”
    • “surprisingly small bottle — Paula's Choice Skin-Smoothing Retinol Body Treatment”

Paula's Choice vs KORRES routines for dry skin

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Paula's Choice vs KORRES routines for oily skin

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Paula's Choice vs KORRES routines for combination skin

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Questions and answers

Paula's Choice or KORRES: which is better?

Paula's Choice is better for glow, radiance, and brightening, as well as skin cleansing and pores, while KORRES is better for texture, consistency, and hydration. Reviewers often mention high prices and value concerns for both brands.

What is the difference between Paula's Choice and KORRES?

Paula's Choice focuses best on combination, oily, and acne-prone skin with fragrance-free products that help with skin smoothing and brightening, while KORRES fits sensitive, dry, and mature skin best with formulations that often include fragrance and help with hydration and gentle cleansing.

Paula's Choice or KORRES for dry skin?

For dry skin, KORRES achieves a Superior routine fit, whereas Paula's Choice reaches a High fit. Every KORRES product on this page includes fragrance, while every Paula's Choice product lists no fragrance.

Paula's Choice or KORRES: which cleanser is better?

Paula's Choice is better for targeting oily skin, acne, and pores with cleansers like the CLEAR Pore Normalizing Cleanser, while KORRES offers a superior choice for gentle, non-stripping hydration with options like the Greek Yoghurt Foaming Cream Cleanser. Paula's Choice products on this page list no fragrance, whereas KORRES products on this page contain fragrance.

Which is more affordable, Paula's Choice or KORRES?

Reviewers note high price and value issues for both Paula's Choice and KORRES, so neither brand stands out as more affordable.

Between Paula's Choice and KORRES, which brand is better for texture and consistency according to review themes?

According to review themes, KORRES does better than Paula's Choice for texture and consistency.

How do the foundation years and current ownership differ between Paula's Choice and KORRES?

Paula's Choice was founded in the United States in 1995 and has been owned by Unilever since 2021, whereas KORRES was founded in 1996 and is owned by Halcyon Equity Partners and Giorgos Korres as of 2024.

Which brand uses fragrance across all its products listed on the page?

KORRES uses fragrance across all the products on this page, while Paula's Choice lists no fragrance for every product.

Paula's Choice or KORRES for oily skin?

Both Paula's Choice and KORRES are great for oily skin, with KORRES having a Superior routine fit and Paula's Choice having a High routine fit on this page. Paula's Choice is fragrance-free across its products, while KORRES includes fragrance in all of its products on this page.

Paula's Choice or KORRES: which moisturizer is better?

Paula's Choice and KORRES both offer hydrating options, but Paula's Choice is unlikely to irritate because every product on its page lists no fragrance, whereas all KORRES moisturizers on this page feature added fragrance.

Paula's Choice or KORRES for sensitive skin?

Both Paula's Choice and KORRES offer products that are a High fit for sensitive skin, though Paula's Choice has fragrance-free options across the products on this page while KORRES includes fragrance in its formulas.

Paula's Choice or KORRES for acne-prone skin?

Paula's Choice is a better fit for acne-prone skin because the products on this page are fragrance-free and best suited for combination, oily, and acne-prone skin types.

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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