No7 vs Sand & Sky
No7 and Sand & Sky are well-regarded skincare brands with distinct approaches to daily wellness. The British brand No7 offers serums, eye products, moisturizers, sunscreens, and more built around vitamin C, shea butter, and hyaluronic acid, suiting mature and dry skin best. Meanwhile, the Australian brand Sand & Sky is beloved for its purifying masks and targeted formulas featuring botanical ingredients that gently clarify and balance the complexion for combination, oily, and acne-prone skin. While both labels feature standout products for specific concerns, they differ fundamentally in their formulations and ideal skin types.
No7 is a British skincare brand founded in 1935 and owned by Sycamore Partners since 2025.
cosmeticsbusiness.comen.wikipedia.org
This page compares some of the most popular No7 and Sand & Sky products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Popular No7 vs Sand & Sky products
Questions and answers
No7 or Sand & Sky: which is better?
No7 offers a much wider range of products on this page and achieves Superior and High Lovi fit levels for mature and dry skin types, whereas Sand & Sky features only a single mask that fits acne-prone and oily skin best.
What is the difference between No7 and Sand & Sky?
No7 offers a broad range of products that Lovi rates as having High fit for mature, dry, and dry sensitive skin, whereas Sand & Sky features just one product on this page, the Australian Pink Clay Porefining Face Mask, which Lovi rates as High for acne-prone, oily acne-prone, combination, and oily skin.
Which is more affordable, No7 or Sand & Sky?
This page does not provide pricing information to compare the affordability of No7 and Sand & Sky.
How do the founding years and company ownership compare between No7 and Sand & Sky?
No7 was founded in 1935 in the United Kingdom and has been owned by Sycamore Partners since 2025, whereas Sand & Sky was founded in 2017 and is owned by Excite Foundry Ltd.
Which brand offers products containing fragrance, No7 or Sand & Sky?
Both brands offer products containing fragrance, as No7 includes it in 3 of the products on this page and Sand & Sky includes it in its sole product.
How does the variety of skin types best suited for No7 differ from Sand & Sky?
No7 fits best for mature skin, dry skin, and dry sensitive skin according to its brand-focused routines, whereas Sand & Sky does not list specific skin types it fits best in its brand-focused routines.
Research behind their key ingredients
Molecular basis of retinol anti-ageing properties in naturally aged human skin in vivo
Effects of ascorbic acid on gingival melanin pigmentation in vitro and in vivo
The evaluation of aluminum oxide crystal microdermabrasion for photodamage
Clinical and histologic changes determine optimal treatment regimens for microdermabrasion
Treatment with Ascorbyl Glucoside-Arginine Complex Ameliorates Solar Lentigos
Targeting Circadian Rhythm for the Regulation of Skin Collagen Metabolism
Retrospective Review of Dermal Safety Studies of Organic Sunscreens
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.
-

Co-founder, Medical Director
Cosmetic chemist, cosmetologist, aesthetic products developer
-

Co-founder, CEO and CTO
PhD in computer science, 3x US patent holder, ex-Google, ex-Yandex
-

Dr. Sofía Perea Pérez, MD, MSc
Medical Board
Aesthetic medicine practitioner, MSc in Longevity and Anti-Aging Medicine
-

Medical Board
Specialist dermatologist, MBBS, MD, IFAAD
-

Medical Board
Cosmetic chemist, SCS, IFSCC member
-

Medical Board, Medical Advisor
Dermatology MD
-

Elina Nazarenko, MD
Medical Board
Dermatology and diagnostic consultant
-

Victoria Derkova, MS
Medical Board
Cosmetic chemist, cosmetic development technologist
How does it fit your skin?
Scan your face, then any product: Lovi shows how well it fits you and what fits even better.









