The INKEY List vs Catrice
The INKEY List and Catrice are accessible beauty brands offering targeted daily care through distinct formulations. The British skincare brand centers its moisturizers, serums, toners, and eye products around glycerin, suiting sensitive and combination skin best while addressing concerns like acne, dark spots, and aging. Meanwhile, the German skincare brand is beloved for refined eye products and advanced formulas that suit combination, oily, and normal skin. While both deliver reliable performance, they differ in their foundational ingredients and specific skin type strengths.
The INKEY List is a British skincare brand founded in 2018 and owned by Brand Evangelists for Beauty Limited.
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Catrice is a German skincare brand founded in 2004 and owned by cosnova.
This page compares some of the most popular The INKEY List and Catrice products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Popular The INKEY List vs Catrice products
Questions and answers
The INKEY List or Catrice: which is better?
The INKEY List offers a much wider range of skincare products across various categories like cleansers, serums, and toners with high Lovi fit levels for skin types such as sensitive, combination, and oily skin, whereas Catrice only features a single eye product on this page. Reviewers note that The INKEY List provides affordable and hydrating options, although packaging issues and a sticky finish are sometimes noted.
What is the difference between The INKEY List and Catrice?
The INKEY List offers a wide range of sixteen affordable skincare products featuring no fragrance, while Catrice features only a single under-eye brightener on this page. Reviewers note that The INKEY List products help deliver hydrating and lightweight moisturizers.
Which is more affordable, The INKEY List or Catrice?
The INKEY List features affordable moisturizers and serums among the products on this page, while Catrice has too few products listed to make a comparison.
Which causes fewer breakouts, The INKEY List or Catrice?
The INKEY List offers a wide range of products including cleansers and toners for acne-prone skin, whereas Catrice only features an under eye brightener on this page, making a direct comparison for breakouts unfeasible. Reviewers sometimes note purging and breakouts as a drawback for the products on this page by The INKEY List.
When and where were The INKEY List and Catrice founded?
The INKEY List was founded in 2018 in the United Kingdom, while Catrice was founded in 2004 in Germany.
Which brand has more products listed on the page?
The INKEY List has more products listed on the page with sixteen items, whereas Catrice has only one product.
Do any of the products from The INKEY List or Catrice contain fragrance?
Every product from The INKEY List and Catrice on this page lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
Research behind their key ingredients
The Effect of Aloe Vera Clinical Trials on Prevention and Healing of Skin Wound: A Systematic Review
Molecular basis of retinol anti-ageing properties in naturally aged human skin in vivo
Effects of ascorbic acid on gingival melanin pigmentation in vitro and in vivo
The moisturizing effects of glycolipid biosurfactants, mannosylerythritol lipids, on human skin
A comparative study of gluconolactone versus benzoyl peroxide in the treatment of acne
Chemical peels for acne vulgaris: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials
Topical Almond Oil for Prevention of Pressure Injuries: A Single-Blinded Comparison Study
The anti wrinkle efficacy of synthetic hexapeptide (Argireline) in Chinese Subjects
Darutoside promotes skin wound healing via regulating macrophage polarization
Treatment with Ascorbyl Glucoside-Arginine Complex Ameliorates Solar Lentigos
Targeting Circadian Rhythm for the Regulation of Skin Collagen Metabolism
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. Sofía Perea Pérez, MD, MSc
Medical Board
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
Medical Board
Dermatology and diagnostic consultant
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Victoria Derkova, MS
Medical Board
Cosmetic chemist, cosmetic development technologist
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