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Avène vs Carotone

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Avène and Carotone are distinct skincare options featuring gentle moisturizers, protective sunscreens, targeted serums, and soothing cleansers. The French brand, founded in 1990 and owned by Fondation Pierre Fabre, utilizes glycerin to improve skin hydration and restore barrier function, suiting oily acne-prone and combination skin best with standout items like the Tolerance Control Soothing Skin Recovery Balm, Cleanance, and Hyaluron Activ B3 Concentrated Plumping Serum. Meanwhile, its counterpart relies on carefully crafted formulas to support a radiant and even complexion, suiting dry, normal, and combination skin best with standout items like the Brightening Cream for acne-prone skin. While both offer targeted serums, they differ in their formulation foundations and ideal skin types.

Avène is a French skincare brand founded in 1990 and owned by Fondation Pierre Fabre.

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

Popular Avène vs Carotone products

Questions and answers

Avène or Carotone: which is better?

Avène is generally better suited for everyday use, as the products on this page offer a wide range of targeted routines for skin types like oily acne-prone, combination, and dry skin. Carotone only features a single brightening cream on this page, providing fewer options for a complete skincare regimen.

What is the difference between Avène and Carotone?

Avène is a French brand founded in 1990 with 15 products on this page spanning cleansers, sunscreens, and serums, whereas Carotone is a brand founded in 2009 with only a single Brightening Cream listed.

Which is more affordable, Avène or Carotone?

Reviewers of the products on this page sometimes note Avène's price point as a drawback, while Carotone offers a single brightening cream without specific affordability feedback listed.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Avène or Carotone?

Avène is better suited for acne-prone skin, as Lovi rates several of its products like Cleanance Sunscreen and Cleanance Cleansing Gel as High fits for acne-prone skin, whereas Carotone only features a single Brightening Cream rated as an Average fit for this skin type.

How many products from Avène do not contain fragrance compared to Carotone?

7 of the 15 products on the Avène page list no fragrance, while every product on the Carotone page lists no fragrance in its ingredients.

Which brand offers more products for dry skin with a Superior or High Lovi fit level?

Avène offers more products for dry skin with a Superior or High Lovi fit level, featuring items like Eau Thermale Thermal Spring Water, Cold Cream, and Milk Cleanser. Carotone lists only one brightening cream on the page, which has an Average fit for dry skin.

When was each company founded and who owns them?

Avène was founded in France in 1990 and is owned by Fondation Pierre Fabre, while Carotone was founded in 2009 and is owned by Nouvelle Parfumerie Gandour.

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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