Hada Labo vs Blume
Hada Labo and Blume are two distinct skincare lines offering nourishing moisturizers and thoughtful formulas. The Japanese brand is known for hydrating toners, gentle makeup removers, and targeted lotions featuring ingredients like hyaluronic acid, while the Canadian brand focuses on soothing essentials like its Meltdown Gel Cream. Both labels suit dry and acne-prone skin best, though the former also caters to mature and uneven complexions. They differ primarily in their cultural origins and the broader range of specialised lotions available from the older company.
Hada Labo is a Japanese skincare brand founded in 2004 and owned by Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd..
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Blume is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2018.
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This page compares some of the most popular Hada Labo and Blume products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Popular Hada Labo vs Blume products
Questions and answers
Hada Labo or Blume: which is better?
Hada Labo is a better fit for dry skin, achieving a Superior rating, whereas Blume offers a High fit for dry skin with its Meltdown Gel Cream. Hyaluronic acid helps provide deep hydration across the products on this page.
What is the difference between Hada Labo and Blume?
Hada Labo is a Japanese brand founded in 2004 that offers a wide range of fragrance-free toners, cleansers, and gels featuring hyaluronic acid, with dry and acne-prone skin receiving a Superior fit from Lovi. In contrast, Blume is an independent Canadian brand founded in 2018 with a single fragrance-free moisturizer on this page, Meltdown Gel Cream, which provides a High fit for acne-prone, oily, and dry skin.
Hada Labo or Blume: which moisturizer is better?
Hada Labo Gokujyun Perfect Gel has a High Lovi fit for dry and dry sensitive skin, while Blume Meltdown Gel Cream has a High fit for acne-prone, oily acne-prone, oily, dry, sensitive, and combination skin. Both brands offer fragrance-free formulas, and topical hyaluronic acid helps improve skin hydration and signs of aging.
Which is more affordable, Hada Labo or Blume?
Hada Labo offers value and versatility as noted by reviewers on this page, while Blume has no pricing information available here.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Hada Labo or Blume?
Blume features Meltdown Gel Cream, which has a high Lovi fit for acne-prone skin and is not associated with clogged pores on this page. Hada Labo fits acne-prone skin well too, but reviewers on the page mention breakouts and clogged pores as a drawback for the products on this page.
Which brand was founded earlier and in which country?
Hada Labo was founded earlier in 2004 in Japan, whereas Blume was founded in 2018 in Canada.
Do either Hada Labo or Blume products contain fragrance?
Every product from Hada Labo and Blume on this page lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
Which skin types does Hada Labo fit best according to its brand-focused routines?
According to its brand-focused routines, Hada Labo fits dry skin, acne-prone skin, and oily acne-prone skin best.
Research behind their key ingredients
The effect of niacinamide on reducing cutaneous pigmentation and suppression of melanosome transfer
Preparation and characterization of a lecithin nanoemulsion as a topical delivery system
The anti-wrinkles properties of sodium acetylated hyaluronate
Moisturizing Effects of Diglycerol Combined with Glycerol on Human Stratum Corneum
Nanocomplex of quaternized cyclodextrin grafted chitosan and hyaluronic acid for a skin delivery
Combined Effect of Silybin and Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate on UV-Induced Photoaging
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.
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