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Kiehl's vs Blume

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Kiehl's and Blume are distinct skincare brands offering a range of targeted solutions for different complexions. The heritage American line features nourishing moisturizers, targeted serums, soothing toners, and revitalizing eye products utilizing glycerin and squalane to suit mature and combination skin best. Conversely, the newer Canadian label focuses on nourishing moisturizers and thoughtful formulas that suit sensitive, acne-prone, and dry skin best. While both brands support a healthy complexion, they differ significantly in their founding eras, ingredient profiles, and ideal skin types.

Kiehl's is an American skincare brand founded in 1851 and owned by L'Oréal S.A. since 2000.

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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 Kiehl's and Blume products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Popular Kiehl's vs Blume products

Kiehl's vs Blume moisturizers

Questions and answers

Kiehl's or Blume: which is better?

Kiehl's offers a much wider variety of products across many skincare categories than Blume, which currently features only a single gel cream on this page. Kiehl's fits mature skin, combination skin, and skin with dark spots best, though reviewers note that some of its products may cause breakouts and irritation.

What is the difference between Kiehl's and Blume?

Kiehl's is a long-standing American brand owned by L'Oreal with a wide variety of skincare products on this page, while Blume is a newer independent Canadian brand featuring just one moisturizer.

Kiehl's or Blume: which moisturizer is better?

When comparing Kiehl's and Blume moisturizers, the products on this page offer a wide range of options tailored to different skin types, with Kiehl's achieving a Superior fit for dry skin using Hydro-Plumping Serum Concentrate. Blume features Meltdown Gel Cream, which has a High fit across acne-prone, oily, and dry skin.

Which is more affordable, Kiehl's or Blume?

Reviewers often mention that Kiehl's products have a high price point, whereas Blume is an independent brand founded in Canada.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Kiehl's or Blume?

Blume is a smaller independent brand whose only featured product, Meltdown Gel Cream, has a High Lovi fit for acne-prone skin. In contrast, Kiehl's offers a wide range of products on this page where reviewers often note that breakouts and skin irritation can occur.

Which brand has been around longer and in which country was each founded?

Kiehl's has been around longer, having been founded in the United States in 1851, whereas Blume was founded in Canada in 2018.

How many products does Kiehl's offer that contain fragrance compared to Blume?

Kiehl's offers 26 fragrance-free products and 2 products with fragrance among the items on this page. Blume has no fragrance listed in any of its products on the page.

What are the specific Lovi fit levels for Blume's Meltdown Gel Cream across different skin types?

For Blume's Meltdown Gel Cream, Lovi rates the fit as High for acne-prone skin, oily acne-prone skin, oily skin, dry skin, sensitive skin, and combination skin, and Average for skin with dark spots, dry sensitive skin, and mature skin.

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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