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Elemis vs Luna Nectar

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Elemis and Luna Nectar are prominent skincare brands celebrated for their nourishing serums, rich moisturizers, gentle cleansers, refining toners, and meticulously blended formulas. Elemis suits dry and mature skin best with formulations weaving together glycerin and shea, while Luna Nectar suits sensitive, dry, and mature skin best. Both brands differ in their standout solutions, with the British brand offering the Pro-Collagen Advanced Eye Treatment, Pro-Collagen Tri-Acid Peel, and Pro-Collagen Marine Cream, and the Canadian brand offering the Moon Boost Lash & Brow Enhancer and Futurize. The former relies on glycerin to increase hydration and improve barrier function and shea butter to reduce inflammation and relieve pruritus, while the latter leaves the complexion balanced, calm, and deeply nourished.

Elemis is a British skincare brand founded in 1989 and owned by L'Occitane Group since 2019.

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Luna Nectar is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2017 and owned by Luna Nectar Organics Inc..

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This page compares some of the most popular Elemis and Luna Nectar products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Popular Elemis vs Luna Nectar products

Elemis vs Luna Nectar serums and treatments

Questions and answers

Elemis or Luna Nectar: which is better?

Elemis is a better fit for shoppers seeking a wide range of options, as the products on this page best suit dry and mature skin, while Luna Nectar offers only a single serum. Reviewers frequently mention Elemis for its hydrating moisturizers and smoother skin texture, though some note a high price point.

What is the difference between Elemis and Luna Nectar?

Elemis is a larger UK-based brand founded in 1989 with a wide product range featuring options like hydrating moisturizers and many fragranced items, whereas Luna Nectar is a smaller Canadian brand founded in 2017 whose products on this page list no fragrance.

Which is more affordable, Elemis or Luna Nectar?

Reviews note that Elemis has a high price point.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Elemis or Luna Nectar?

Luna Nectar lists no fragrance in its products, whereas most Elemis products contain fragrance and reviewers sometimes note skin irritation, though Elemis fit levels for acne-prone skin vary across the products on this page.

Which brand has been around longer, Elemis or Luna Nectar?

Elemis has been around longer than Luna Nectar, having been founded in the United Kingdom in 1989, while Luna Nectar was founded in Canada in 2017.

How many Elemis products contain fragrance compared to Luna Nectar?

Out of the 22 products on the page for Elemis, 18 of them contain fragrance, whereas every Luna Nectar product on this page lists no fragrance.

Which brand offers a wider range of products on the comparison page?

Elemis offers a much wider range of products on this page, featuring twenty-two different skincare items compared to Luna Nectar's single product.

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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