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The INKEY List vs ELIDEL

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The INKEY List and ELIDEL are distinct skincare collections that offer targeted support for specific complexions. The British brand is known for moisturizers, serums, toners, and eye products built around glycerin, suiting sensitive, combination, acne-prone, and mature skin best. Meanwhile, the Swiss brand is beloved for gentle moisturizers and soothing formulas with pimecrolimus, suiting sensitive and dry skin best. They differ primarily in their formulation focus, with the former emphasizing diverse active ingredients and the latter prioritizing carefully balanced, soothing compositions.

The INKEY List is a British skincare brand founded in 2018 and owned by Brand Evangelists for Beauty Limited.

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ELIDEL is a Swiss skincare brand founded in 2001 and owned by Viatris Inc. since 2016.

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This page compares some of the most popular The INKEY List and ELIDEL products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Popular The INKEY List vs ELIDEL products

The INKEY List vs ELIDEL moisturizers

Questions and answers

The INKEY List or ELIDEL: which is better?

The INKEY List generally offers a much wider variety of products on this page with better fit levels across most skin types, whereas ELIDEL only features a single moisturizer with mostly average to low fit ratings.

What is the difference between The INKEY List and ELIDEL?

The products on this page from The INKEY List fit sensitive, combination, and acne-prone skin best, whereas ELIDEL features a pimecrolimus moisturizer with average to caution fit levels across various skin types.

The INKEY List or ELIDEL: which moisturizer is better?

The products on this page for The INKEY List include moisturizers with High Lovi fit levels for dry skin like the Polyglutamic Acid Serum, whereas the ELIDEL Pimecrolimus moisturizer has only an Average Lovi fit level for dry skin.

Which is more affordable, The INKEY List or ELIDEL?

The products on this page from The INKEY List feature affordable moisturizers and affordable serums, while ELIDEL does not mention affordability.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The INKEY List or ELIDEL?

The products on this page by The INKEY List fit acne-prone skin with High or Superior Lovi levels for multiple items like the Caffeine Eye Cream and PHA Toner, whereas ELIDEL features Pimecrolimus with a Low fit for acne-prone skin. Purging and breakouts are sometimes noted by reviewers of The INKEY List.

When was The INKEY List founded compared to ELIDEL?

The INKEY List was founded in 2018 in the United Kingdom, whereas ELIDEL was founded earlier in 2001 in Switzerland.

Which brand offers more products for dry skin according to the Lovi fit levels?

The INKEY List offers multiple products for dry skin with High or Superior Lovi fit levels, such as the Oat Cleansing Balm and Polyglutamic Acid Serum, whereas ELIDEL features only one product for dry skin with an Average fit level.

Do any products from The INKEY List or ELIDEL contain fragrance?

Every product on the ELIDEL page and every product on The INKEY List page 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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