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Paula's Choice vs MAËLYS

Paula's Choice and MAËLYS are established skincare brands offering distinct approaches to everyday care. Paula's Choice features serums, cleansers, moisturizers, and toners built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and vitamin C, making the brand best suited for oily and mature skin. Meanwhile, MAËLYS is loved for targeted serums and advanced formulas that suit all skin types best. They differ primarily in their formulation focus, with the American skincare brand emphasizing barrier restoration and specific exfoliants, while the latter delivers thoughtful care through specialized body and facial solutions.

Paula's Choice is an American skincare brand founded in 1995 and owned by Unilever since 2021.

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

Questions and answers

Paula's Choice or MAËLYS: which is better?

Paula's Choice offers a much wider variety of fragrance-free products that achieve High to Superior Lovi fit levels across most skin types, whereas MAËLYS has lower fit levels and includes fragrance in some items. The products on this page help target common concerns using ingredients like retinol and niacinamide, which may reduce signs of aging and pigmentation.

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What is the difference between Paula's Choice and MAËLYS?

Paula's Choice offers a wide selection of fragrance-free skincare products with a High to Superior fit for oily, mature, and acne-prone skin types, whereas MAËLYS features very few products on this page that mostly show a Low fit across skin types. Additionally, Paula's Choice relies on proven ingredients like niacinamide and retinol to help manage skin aging and pigmentation.

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Which is more affordable, Paula's Choice or MAËLYS?

Reviewers note that Paula's Choice products on this page have a high price, while pricing details are not highlighted for MAËLYS.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Paula's Choice or MAËLYS?

Paula's Choice achieves a Superior or High Lovi fit for acne-prone skin across the products on this page, while MAËLYS is rated Low for acne-prone skin.

Which brand has been around longer, Paula's Choice or MAËLYS?

Paula's Choice has been around longer, having been founded in the United States in 1995, whereas MAËLYS was founded in 2017.

Do any products from Paula's Choice or MAËLYS contain fragrance?

Paula's Choice products on this page list no fragrance in their ingredients. In contrast, MAËLYS includes fragrance in the RE-LURE Tight & Tone Body Serum.

Which skin types does Paula's Choice fit best?

Paula's Choice fits oily skin, mature skin, and oily acne-prone skin best.

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.

How does it fit your skin?

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