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Kiehl's vs ILIA Beauty

Kiehl's and ILIA Beauty are respected beauty brands that offer thoughtful moisturizers, targeted serums, soothing toners, and revitalizing eye products. The American brand is formulated with glycerin and squalane, suiting mature and combination skin best with moisture-retention and barrier-supporting properties, while the Canadian brand features gentle, hydrating compositions that suit dry, normal, and combination skin. Ultimately, the two differ in their founding eras, ownership, and specific botanical focuses, such as Kiehl's inclusion of calendula extracts for acne and dark spots versus ILIA Beauty's emphasis on clean, conscious beauty.

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

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ILIA Beauty is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2011 and owned by Famille C since 2022.

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This page compares some of the most popular Kiehl's and ILIA Beauty products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Questions and answers

Kiehl's or ILIA Beauty: which is better?

Kiehl's offers a much wider selection of skincare products across categories like cleansers, toners, serums, and moisturizers, whereas ILIA Beauty features only a single moisturizer on this page. Lovi rates Kiehl's best for mature skin, combination skin, and skin with dark spots.

What is the difference between Kiehl's and ILIA Beauty?

Kiehl's offers a wide range of skincare products on this page featuring various active ingredients, whereas ILIA Beauty is represented by just one moisturizer.

Kiehl's or ILIA Beauty: which moisturizer is better?

Kiehl's offers a wide range of moisturizers with specialized fit levels for different skin types, whereas ILIA Beauty features only a single moisturizer on the products on this page. Kiehl's moisturizers provide targeted options like the Hydro-Plumping Serum Concentrate, which has a superior fit for dry skin.

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Which is more affordable, Kiehl's or ILIA Beauty?

Reviews on this page often mention that Kiehl's has a high price point, whereas affordability details for ILIA Beauty are not featured among the products on this page.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Kiehl's or ILIA Beauty?

ILIA Beauty lists no products on this page noted for causing breakouts, whereas the products on this page from Kiehl's have reviewers sometimes noting that they cause breakouts and skin irritation.

When was Kiehl's founded compared to ILIA Beauty?

Kiehl's was founded much earlier in 1851 in the United States, whereas ILIA Beauty was established later in 2011 in Canada.

How many products contain fragrance in Kiehl's versus ILIA Beauty?

Among the products on this page, Kiehl's includes fragrance in two items, while ILIA Beauty has no fragrance listed in any of its products.

Which brand offers a wider variety of products on the page?

Kiehl's offers a wider variety of products on this page, featuring multiple cleansers, toners, serums, and moisturizers.

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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