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Clarins vs DHC

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Clarins and DHC are respected skincare brands that offer gentle yet effective daily care for a balanced complexion. The French line is known for nourishing moisturizers, targeted serums, delicate eye products, and refreshing toners featuring soothing shea and replenishing squalane, while the Japanese counterpart is beloved for its effective makeup removers and nourishing formulas. These distinct approaches suit different needs, as the former cares best for sensitive and mature skin, whereas both brands accommodate a wider range including dry, normal, combination, and oily types.

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

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

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Questions and answers

Clarins or DHC: which is better?

Clarins and DHC are both solid skincare lines, but they differ greatly in their product variety and fragrance use, as the products on this page show that DHC offers fragrance-free options while nearly all Clarins products contain fragrance. Clarins offers a wide selection of serums, moisturizers, and masks that Lovi rates as having High fit levels for sensitive, mature, and dry sensitive skin.

What is the difference between Clarins and DHC?

Clarins offers a wide range of products including serums, moisturizers, and cleansers with fit levels varying by skin type, while DHC features makeup removers like Deep Cleansing Oil and Pore Cleansing Oil. Additionally, Clarins products on this page often contain fragrance, whereas every DHC product on this page lists no fragrance.

Which is more affordable, Clarins or DHC?

Reviewers on this page mention a high price point as a common downside for Clarins, while DHC is not noted for high pricing on the products on this page.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Clarins or DHC?

DHC products on this page have an average or high fit for acne-prone skin, whereas Clarins includes products with lower fits or warnings for acne-prone skin.

How do the founding years and countries of origin compare between Clarins and DHC?

Clarins was founded in France in 1954, whereas DHC was founded in Japan in 1980.

Which brand offers a greater variety of products with fragrance versus fragrance-free options?

Clarins offers a greater variety of products on this page with fragrance, listing 23 fragranced products out of 24, whereas DHC offers entirely fragrance-free options across its products.

What key ingredients are found across Clarins skincare products?

The products on this page for Clarins feature key ingredients such as shea butter, squalane, oat, hyaluronic acid, vitamin E, and glycerin.

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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