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Paula's Choice vs MAËLYS

Paula's Choice and MAËLYS are skincare brands offering thoughtful care through specialized solutions. 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, which fit oily skin and acne-prone skin best. MAËLYS is loved for targeted serums and advanced formulas that suit all skin types best. The brands differ in their formulations and ideal skin types, as glycerin significantly increased skin hydration and restored barrier function for the first brand, while both deliver distinct standout products for particular concerns.

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

Questions and answers

Paula's Choice or MAËLYS: which is better?

Paula's Choice is the better choice on this page, as its wide range of fragrance-free products achieves Superior and High Lovi fit levels across most skin types. MAËLYS offers very few products here, which mostly show Low fit levels. Ingredients like niacinamide help improve skin pigmentation and texture.

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

Paula's Choice offers a wide range of fragrance-free skincare products with Superior to High Lovi fit levels for oily and acne-prone skin, whereas MAËLYS provides body and targeted serums that mostly show Low or Average fit levels across skin types on this page.

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

Reviewers note that Paula's Choice products have a high price, while pricing details for MAËLYS are not provided on this page.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Paula's Choice or MAËLYS?

Paula's Choice offers a Superior Lovi fit for acne-prone and oily acne-prone skin across multiple products on this page, whereas MAËLYS rates Low for acne-prone skin, meaning Paula's Choice is much better suited to help prevent breakouts.

Between Paula's Choice and MAËLYS, which brand offers more fragrance-free products according to the page?

Paula's Choice offers more fragrance-free products on this page, as every single product lists no fragrance in its ingredients, whereas MAËLYS includes fragrance in one of its two products.

How do the founding years and corporate ownership compare between Paula's Choice and MAËLYS?

Paula's Choice was founded in 1995 in the United States and has been owned by Unilever since 2021, whereas MAËLYS was founded in 2017 and is owned by the Barinboim Group.

Which specific skin types do Paula's Choice brand-focused routines fit best?

Paula's Choice brand-focused routines fit oily skin, acne-prone skin, and oily acne-prone skin best.

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.

How does it fit your skin?

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