Principia vs Hanhoo
Principia and Hanhoo are thoughtful skincare brands celebrated for their reliable daily care offerings. Principia is widely loved for its thoughtful cleansers and precise formulas that suit balanced to oily skin best, featuring standout products like the Gel de Limpeza GL-01 for acne-prone skin to maintain a healthy, balanced complexion. Hanhoo is widely loved for its targeted serums and carefully balanced formulas that suit sensitive, dry, and combination skin best due to their gentle yet effective nature, featuring standout items like the Blemish Patch for acne-prone skin and the T-Zone Pore Patch for skin with dark spots. While both deliver reliable care, they differ in their core product types and the specific skin types they suit best.
This page compares some of the most popular Principia and Hanhoo products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Questions and answers
Principia or Hanhoo: which is better?
Hanhoo fits acne-prone skin best with its Blemish Patch getting a High Lovi rating, while the products on this page for Principia get Average or lower ratings.
What is the difference between Principia and Hanhoo?
Principia offers a cleanser with an Average Lovi fit across skin types, while Hanhoo features specialized patches including a Blemish Patch that achieves a High Lovi fit for acne-prone, dry, and sensitive skin. Every product from the products on this page for both brands lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
Which is more affordable, Principia or Hanhoo?
Neither brand lists pricing or affordability details for the products on this page.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Principia or Hanhoo?
Hanhoo fits acne-prone skin with a High Lovi rating for its Blemish Patch, whereas Principia's cleanser has a Low fit for acne-prone skin.
Between Principia and Hanhoo, which brand was founded earlier?
Hanhoo was founded earlier, in 2008, while Principia was founded in 2020.
How does the Lovi fit level for dry skin compare between Principia's cleanser and Hanhoo's Blemish Patch?
For dry skin, Principia's cleanser has a Caution Lovi fit level while Hanhoo's Blemish Patch reaches a High Lovi fit level.
Do any products from either Principia or Hanhoo contain fragrance?
Every product on this page from both Principia and Hanhoo lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
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.
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Co-founder, Medical Director
Cosmetic chemist, cosmetologist, aesthetic products developer
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Co-founder, CEO and CTO
PhD in computer science, 3x US patent holder, ex-Google, ex-Yandex
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Dr. Sof铆a Perea P茅rez, MD, MSc
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Aesthetic medicine practitioner, MSc in Longevity and Anti-Aging Medicine
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Specialist dermatologist, MBBS, MD, IFAAD
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Cosmetic chemist, SCS, IFSCC member
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Medical Board, Medical Advisor
Dermatology MD
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Elina Nazarenko, MD
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Dermatology and diagnostic consultant
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Victoria Derkova, MS
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Cosmetic chemist, cosmetic development technologist
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