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No7 vs Carotone

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No7 and Carotone are established skincare options with distinct formulations tailored for daily routines. The British brand founded in 1935 offers serums, eye products, moisturizers, sunscreens, and more built around vitamin c, shea butter, and hyaluronic acid, while the second option is loved for its targeted serums and carefully crafted formulas. No7 fits dry skin and mature skin best, and its products like the Future Renew Damage Reversal Eye Serum, Pure Retinol Eye Cream, and Protect & Perfect Intense Advanced Night Cream address specific concerns, whereas the other brand suits dry, normal, and combination skin best with standout items like the Brightening Cream for acne-prone skin. Both differ primarily in their ingredient profiles and optimal skin matches, as shea butter protects diapered skin and mitigates erythema in the first line, and regular use supports a radiant and even complexion with the second.

No7 is a British skincare brand founded in 1935 and owned by Sycamore Partners since 2025.

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This page compares some of the most popular No7 and Carotone products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

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No7 vs Carotone serums and treatments

Questions and answers

No7 or Carotone: which is better?

No7 offers a much wider range of thirteen products compared to Carotone and fits dry, mature, and sensitive skin best. The products on this page feature key ingredients like niacinamide, which helps reduce pigmentation, and retinol, which stimulates collagen accumulation in aging skin.

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What is the difference between No7 and Carotone?

No7 offers a wide range of products including serums, eye creams, and moisturizers featuring key ingredients like vitamin C and retinol, whereas Carotone has a single brightening cream listed on this page. No7 products fit dry, mature, and sensitive skin best, while Carotone's brightening cream shows average Lovi fit levels across skin types.

Which is more affordable, No7 or Carotone?

This page does not contain pricing information, so a comparison of affordability between No7 and Carotone cannot be made.

Which causes fewer breakouts, No7 or Carotone?

Both No7 and Carotone are not explicitly rated as causing fewer breakouts on this page, but No7 offers products like Restore & Renew Serum which has a High fit level for acne-prone skin.

How do the founding years and corporate ownerships of No7 and Carotone compare?

No7 was founded in 1935 in the United Kingdom and has been owned by Sycamore Partners since 2025, whereas Carotone was founded in 2009 and is owned by Nouvelle Parfumerie Gandour with its founding country not specified.

Which of the two brands offers products with fragrance, No7 or Carotone?

No7 offers products with fragrance, whereas Carotone lists no fragrance in the ingredients of any product on this page. Specifically, ten of No7 products list no fragrance, while Future Renew Damage Reversal Night Cream, Lift & Luminate Day Cream, and Protect & Perfect Intense Advanced Day Cream contain it.

What key ingredients are found across the products offered by No7?

The key ingredients found across the products on this page for No7 include vitamin C, shea butter, hyaluronic acid, and niacinamide.

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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