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Paula's Choice vs MAËLYS

Paula's Choice and MAËLYS are skincare brands offering thoughtful care through specialized solutions. Paula's Choice is an American brand founded in 1995 and owned by Unilever since 2021, known for serums, cleansers, moisturizers, toners, and more built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and vitamin c, which fit oily skin and acne-prone skin best. MAËLYS is loved for targeted serums and advanced formulas that suit all skin types best. The brands differ in their formulations and ideal skin types, as glycerin significantly increased skin hydration and restored barrier function for the first brand, while both deliver distinct standout products for particular concerns.

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

Questions and answers

Paula's Choice or MAËLYS: which is better?

Paula's Choice offers a much wider range of fragrance-free skincare products with High to Superior Lovi fit levels across multiple skin types, whereas MAËLYS has mostly Low fit levels on this page.

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

Paula's Choice offers a wide selection of fragrance-free skincare products that achieve Superior and High fit levels across multiple skin types, whereas MAËLYS features far fewer products on this page with mostly Low or Average fit levels. Paula's Choice is best suited for oily, acne-prone, and mature skin, while MAËLYS includes added fragrance in some of its formulas.

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

Reviewers note that Paula's Choice has a high price, but MAËLYS is not compared for affordability on the page.

Which brand has been around longer, Paula's Choice or MAËLYS?

Paula's Choice has been around longer, having been founded in the United States in 1995, whereas MAËLYS was founded in 2017.

Do either of these brands include fragrance in their products?

Paula's Choice includes no fragrance in any of the products on this page, whereas MAËLYS includes fragrance in at least one product.

What skin types do Paula's Choice brand-focused routines fit best?

Paula's Choice brand-focused routines fit oily skin, acne-prone skin, and mature skin best. Lovi gives many of the brand's exfoliants and cleansers a Superior fit for these skin types.

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.

How does it fit your skin?

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