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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 fits sensitive, mature, and dry sensitive skin best with the products on this page. Topical hyaluronic acid helps improve skin quality and signs of skin aging.

Dermatologic Therapy, 2022

What is the difference between Clarins and ILIA Beauty?

Clarins is an older, French brand with a large range of scented products that Lovi rates best for sensitive, mature, and dry sensitive skin, while ILIA Beauty is a newer, Canadian brand owned by the same parent company with fragrance-free options. The products on this page from Clarins feature key ingredients like hyaluronic acid and vitamin E.

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Clarins or ILIA Beauty: which moisturizer is better?

When choosing between moisturizers from the products on this page, Clarins offers options like Hydra-Essentiel Silky Cream with a High fit level for dry sensitive skin, whereas ILIA Beauty features The Base Face Milk with an Average fit across multiple skin types. Topical hyaluronic acid, found in Clarins moisturizers, helps improve skin quality and signs of aging.

Dermatologic Therapy, 2022

Which is more affordable, Clarins or ILIA Beauty?

Reviewers on this page frequently mention that Clarins has a high price point, whereas ILIA Beauty features products like The Base Face Milk with fewer pricing complaints noted.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Clarins or ILIA Beauty?

ILIA Beauty features a single moisturizer on this page, whereas the products on this page for Clarins range widely in their acne-prone skin fit levels, including low fits and warnings.

Between Clarins and ILIA Beauty, which brand offers a greater variety of products with added fragrance?

Clarins offers a greater variety of products with added fragrance, as 23 out of 24 products on this page list fragrance in their ingredients. In contrast, every ILIA Beauty product on this page lists no fragrance.

How do the founding years and countries of origin compare between Clarins and ILIA Beauty, and who owns them now?

Clarins was founded in 1954 in France, whereas ILIA Beauty was founded in 2011 in Canada. Both brands are currently owned by Famille C.

Which brand has more products rated with a Superior Lovi fit level for mature skin, Clarins or ILIA Beauty?

Clarins has more products on this page rated with a Superior Lovi fit level for mature skin, whereas ILIA Beauty has none.

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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