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Avène vs Rilastil

Rated by Lovi · Unbiased, science-based skincare AI trained on real user outcomes · How the Fit score works

Avène and Rilastil are skincare lines known for gentle compositions that restore daily comfort and enhance natural resilience. The French brand, founded in 1990 and owned by Fondation Pierre Fabre, is universally loved for versatile moisturizers, reliable sunscreens, targeted serums, and gentle cleansers formulated with nourishing glycerin, while Rilastil is warmly loved for its targeted serums and meticulously balanced formulas. Products by the first brand suit acne-prone skin and oily acne-prone skin best, offering profound relief without heaviness through items such as the Tolerance Control Soothing Skin Recovery Balm, the Cleanance, and the Hyaluron Activ B3 Concentrated Plumping Serum, whereas the second brand suits sensitive, dry, and mature skin types best, featuring the standout Acnestil for acne-prone skin. They differ because glycerin improves skin hydration and restores barrier function in the former's expert formulations, while the latter employs a gentle yet deeply nourishing approach.

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 Rilastil 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 Rilastil: which is better?

Avène is better on this page for most shoppers, offering fifteen products with strong Lovi fit levels across skin types like dry, sensitive, and acne-prone skin, compared to just one product from Rilastil. Avène also provides reliable hydration and soothing benefits using key ingredients like glycerin and thermal water.

Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology, 2017

What is the difference between Avène and Rilastil?

Avène offers a wide variety of products on this page across multiple skin types with varying fit levels, whereas Rilastil features only a single product, Acnestil, which has an average fit for oily and acne-prone skin. Furthermore, while many Avène products contain fragrance, every Rilastil product on this page lists no fragrance.

Which is more affordable, Avène or Rilastil?

Reviewers of Avène note that its price point is a consideration, whereas no pricing details are available for Rilastil on this page.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Avène or Rilastil?

Avène and Rilastil both offer products with average Lovi fit levels for acne-prone skin, such as Avène Cleanance Comedomed Anti-Blemish Concentrate and Rilastil Acnestil.

Which brand has been around longer and where was it founded?

Rilastil was founded earlier in 1972, while Avène was founded in 1990 in France.

How many products from Avène list no fragrance compared to Rilastil?

Seven of the fifteen products on this page from Avène list no fragrance, while every Rilastil product on this page lists no fragrance.

What are the shared key ingredients found across Avène products?

The shared key ingredients found across Avène products on this page are thermal water and glycerin. 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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