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Avène vs FRE

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Avène and FRE are distinct skincare lines, with the French brand founded in 1990 and owned by Fondation Pierre Fabre offering versatile moisturizers, reliable sunscreens, targeted serums, and gentle cleansers, while the latter is widely known for its targeted product types and nourishing formulas. Both suit acne-prone skin best, though the former also suits oily acne-prone skin through expert formulations featuring nourishing glycerin, which improves skin hydration and restores barrier function, whereas the latter utilizes gentle and effective compositions. They differ in their specific offerings, as the former provides the Tolerance Control Soothing Skin Recovery Balm for acne-prone skin, the Cleanance for skin with dark spots, and the Hyaluron Activ B3 Concentrated Plumping Serum for mature skin, while the latter highlights the Argan Oil for acne-prone skin to gently balance and support the complexion.

Avène is a French skincare brand founded in 1990 and owned by Fondation Pierre Fabre.

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

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Questions and answers

Avène or FRE: which is better?

Avene is better suited for a wider variety of skin types and routines on this page compared to FRE, offering multiple specialized products featuring ingredients like glycerin and thermal water. FRE features only one product on this page, an argan oil that helps improve skin hydration.

International Journal of Nanomedicine, 2014

What is the difference between Avène and FRE?

Avene offers a wide variety of products on this page with different Lovi fit levels across skin types, whereas FRE features only a single argan oil product with a High fit for dry sensitive skin. Avene includes fragrance in nearly half its products, while every product on this page for FRE lists no fragrance.

International Journal of Nanomedicine, 2014

Which is more affordable, Avène or FRE?

FRE is not rated for affordability on this page, while reviewers note that Avène has a price point that is sometimes mentioned. No studies discuss the pricing of these brands.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Avène or FRE?

Avène is better suited for acne-prone skin, with several products achieving a High Lovi fit level for oily acne-prone and acne-prone skin. In contrast, FRE features only an argan oil product on this page, which has an Average fit for acne-prone skin.

How do the founding years and corporate ownership of Avène and FRE compare?

Avène was founded in France in 1990 and is owned by Fondation Pierre Fabre, whereas FRE was founded in 2016 and is independently owned.

Which brand has more fragrance-free options among its listed products?

Avène has more fragrance-free options among the products on this page, with 7 of its 15 products listing no fragrance.

What are the key shared ingredients across Avène products?

The products on this page for Avène share thermal water and glycerin as key ingredients. Glycerin helps provide hydration to the skin.

Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology, 2017

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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