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Paula's Choice vs Trilogy

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Paula's Choice and Trilogy are established skincare labels offering thoughtful moisturizers, gentle cleansers, serums, and toners built around ingredients like hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and vitamin c. The American brand founded in 1995 suits oily skin and mature skin best, while its counterpart favors dry, balanced, and sensitive skin types. Both brands differ in their specific formulations, with the former emphasizing targeted treatments such as its BHA liquid exfoliant and the latter celebrated for high-performing, rosehip-infused creations.

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 Trilogy products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Popular Paula's Choice vs Trilogy products

People Say

Paula's ChoiceTrilogy
  • Hydrating formula Not notedMostly Mentioned
    • “Keeps skin moisturized — Trilogy Vitamin C Ceramide Night Cream”
    • “Leaves skin thoroughly moisturised — Trilogy Line Smoothing Day Cream”
    • “Feels moisturizing — Trilogy Rosehip Cream Cleanser”
  • Non-irritating and gentle Often MentionedMostly Mentioned
    • “Doesn't irritate my sensitive skin — Trilogy Rosehip Cream Cleanser”
    • “Nothing irritated my skin — Trilogy Line Smoothing Day Cream”
    • “Finally a vitamin C product I can use — Paula's Choice 25% Vitamin C + Glutathione Clinical Serum”
  • Glow, radiance, and even skin tone Mostly MentionedOften Mentioned
    • “visible glow — Paula's Choice C15 Super Booster”
    • “acne scars faded — Paula's Choice 10% Azelaic Acid Booster”
    • “Discoloration almost gone — Paula's Choice 25% Vitamin C + Glutathione Clinical Serum”
    • “Wake to a glowing complexion — Trilogy Vitamin C Ceramide Night Cream”
  • Pleasant gel or cream texture Rarely NotedMostly Mentioned
    • “Silky cream consistency — Trilogy Rosehip Cream Cleanser”
    • “Luxuriously rich — Trilogy Vitamin C Ceramide Night Cream”
    • “Silky gel feel — Paula's Choice CLEAR Pore Normalizing Cleanser”
  • Texture smoothing and softening Mostly MentionedNot noted
    • “skin becomes very smooth — Paula's Choice 1% Retinol Treatment”
    • “bumps be gone — Paula's Choice Weightless Body Treatment 2% BHA”
    • “skin is insanely soft — Paula's Choice Weightless Body Treatment 2% BHA”
  • Lightweight and fast absorption Mostly MentionedNot noted
    • “Absorbs quickly and leaves no greasy residue behind. — Paula's Choice Clear Oil-Free Moisturizer”
    • “absorbs instantly — Paula's Choice C15 Super Booster”
    • “watery consistency — Paula's Choice 10% Niacinamide Booster”
  • High price and value concerns Mostly MentionedRarely Noted
    • “Price to be high relative to performance — Trilogy Rosehip Cream Cleanser”
    • “tiny tube — Paula's Choice 10% Azelaic Acid Booster”
  • Unpleasant smell and scent issues Often MentionedSometimes Noted
    • “If you are sensitive to fragrances, you might find it irritating — Trilogy Rosehip Cream Cleanser”
    • “Scent is awful — Trilogy Line Smoothing Day Cream”
    • “smells like grain — Paula's Choice 10% Azelaic Acid Booster”
  • Heavy for oily skin Rarely NotedOften Mentioned
    • “Extremely greasy — Paula's Choice 25% Vitamin C + Glutathione Clinical Serum”
    • “A little bit too thick — Trilogy Vitamin C Ceramide Night Cream”

Questions and answers

Paula's Choice or Trilogy: which is better?

Paula's Choice helps deliver superior options for anti-aging and texture smoothing, whereas Trilogy tends to offer better hydrating formulas and gentle, non-irritating care. For the products on this page, Paula's Choice fits best for oily, mature, and oily acne-prone skin types.

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

Paula's Choice offers a wider range of fragrance-free products that help with glow and texture smoothing, while Trilogy features more hydrating and gentle formulas with some scented options. Paula's Choice fits best for oily, mature, and oily acne-prone skin types.

Paula's Choice or Trilogy: which cleanser is better?

Paula's Choice offers a wider range of cleansers with a Superior Lovi fit for oily and acne-prone skin types, while Trilogy provides options with a High fit for dry and sensitive skin. Lovi rates the products on this page for Paula's Choice as fragrance-free, whereas two of Trilogy's three products contain fragrance.

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

Reviews mostly mention high prices and value concerns for Trilogy, and high prices for Paula's Choice.

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

Paula's Choice helps prevent breakouts better because the products on this page include oil-fighting ingredients like salicylic acid, whereas Trilogy offers fewer options for acne-prone skin.

Paula's Choice or Trilogy: which brand has no fragrance in all its products?

Paula's Choice has no fragrance in all the products on this page, whereas Trilogy includes fragrance in some of its formulas.

Which brand was founded earlier, Paula's Choice or Trilogy?

Paula's Choice was founded earlier, in 1995 in the United States, whereas Trilogy was founded in 2002.

Paula's Choice or Trilogy: which brand offers better texture smoothing and softening?

Paula's Choice does better for texture smoothing and softening among the products on this page, while Trilogy is noted for hydrating formulas. Retinol helps improve skin texture and stimulate collagen accumulation in naturally aged skin.

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Paula's Choice or Trilogy: which moisturizer is better?

Paula's Choice offers a wider range of moisturizers with fragrance-free formulas, while Trilogy provides hydrating formulas that reviewers mostly mention for being effective. Lovi rates the products on this page as having average to high fit levels for various skin types across both brands.

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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