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Paula's Choice vs MAËLYS

Paula's Choice and MAËLYS are distinct skincare brands offering targeted solutions for various complexions. Paula's Choice features serums, cleansers, moisturizers, toners, and more built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and vitamin c, suiting acne-prone skin and oily skin best with ingredients like glycerin that significantly increase skin hydration and restore barrier function. Meanwhile, the brand is loved for targeted serums and advanced formulas that suit all skin types best through specialized solutions. They differ primarily in their core ingredient focus and the breadth of skin types they accommodate, with the former emphasizing foundational barrier health and the latter focusing on specialized 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 products with High and Superior Lovi fit levels across multiple skin types, whereas MAËLYS has mostly Low or Average fit ratings 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 with Superior to High Lovi fit levels across acne-prone, oily, and combination skin types. In contrast, MAËLYS provides very few items on this page, and its products show Low to Caution Lovi fit levels for most skin types.

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

MAËLYS and Paula's Choice are not directly compared for affordability on this page, but Paula's Choice reviewers mention high price as a drawback.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Paula's Choice or MAËLYS?

Paula's Choice is a better option for preventing breakouts, as the products on this page achieve a Superior fit for acne-prone skin, while MAËLYS products are rated Low for that skin type.

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

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

Do any products from Paula's Choice or MAËLYS contain fragrance?

Paula's Choice products on this page list no fragrance in their ingredients. In contrast, MAËLYS includes fragrance in at least one product, specifically the RE-LURE Tight & Tone Body Serum.

Which skin types fit Paula's Choice best according to its brand-focused routines?

Paula's Choice fits acne-prone skin, oily skin, and combination skin best according to its brand-focused routines.

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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