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Dr. Althea vs ILIA Beauty

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

Dr. Althea and ILIA Beauty are thoughtful beauty brands known for their nourishing moisturizers and gentle, skin-soothing formulas. Dr. Althea is widely beloved for gentle cleansers, effective makeup removers, and soothing serums featuring key ingredients, suiting dry and acne-prone skin best with standalone items like the Amino Acid Gentle Bubble Cleanser, 345 Relief Cream, and Vitamin C Boosting Serum. ILIA Beauty is widely loved for its conscious compositions, suiting dry, normal, and combination skin best with standout products like The Base Face Milk for acne-prone skin. While both offer reliable daily routines, the brands differ in their specific product ranges, geographic origins, and targeted skin types.

Dr. Althea is a Korean skincare brand founded in 2014 and owned by The Pure Lab Co., Ltd..

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ILIA Beauty is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2011 and owned by Famille C since 2022.

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

Popular Dr. Althea vs ILIA Beauty products

Questions and answers

Dr. Althea or ILIA Beauty: which is better?

Dr. Althea is a better choice for shoppers seeking specialized options, as the products on this page achieve a Superior Lovi fit for acne-prone skin, whereas ILIA Beauty only offers an Average fit across all skin types.

What is the difference between Dr. Althea and ILIA Beauty?

Dr. Althea offers a wide range of cleansers, moisturizers, serums, and makeup removers with fit levels ranging from Superior to Low depending on the skin type, whereas ILIA Beauty features only a single moisturizer on this page with an Average fit across all skin types.

Dr. Althea or ILIA Beauty: which moisturizer is better?

Dr. Althea provides a better moisturizer option because its 345 Relief Cream achieves a Superior fit for acne-prone skin and a High fit for dry and mature skin, whereas ILIA Beauty's The Base Face Milk achieves only an Average fit across those skin types.

Which is more affordable, Dr. Althea or ILIA Beauty?

The products on this page for Dr. Althea and ILIA Beauty do not include pricing information, so affordability cannot be compared here.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Dr. Althea or ILIA Beauty?

Dr. Althea has a High to Superior Lovi fit for acne-prone skin with products like its 345 Relief Cream and Amino Acid Gentle Bubble Cleanser, whereas ILIA Beauty only offers The Base Face Milk with an Average fit. Reviewers sometimes note breakouts from Dr. Althea, though the products on this page list no fragrance.

Between Dr. Althea and ILIA Beauty, which brand was founded earlier and in which country?

ILIA Beauty was founded earlier in 2011 in Canada, whereas Dr. Althea was founded in 2014 in South Korea.

How do the Lovi fit levels for moisturizers compare between Dr. Althea's 345 Relief Cream and ILIA Beauty's The Base Face Milk?

Dr. Althea's 345 Relief Cream achieves Superior fit levels for acne-prone and oily acne-prone skin and High fit levels for dry, combination, mature, and sensitive skin types, whereas ILIA Beauty's The Base Face Milk reaches only Average fit levels across all of those same skin types.

What are the main fragrance properties of the products listed for both Dr. Althea and ILIA Beauty?

Every product on this page for both Dr. Althea and ILIA Beauty lists no fragrance in its ingredients.

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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