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The INKEY List vs ILIA Beauty

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The INKEY List and ILIA Beauty are distinct skincare houses that cater to different complexions through targeted formulations. The INKEY List offers targeted moisturizers, serums, toners, and eye products built around glycerin, suiting sensitive and combination skin best while addressing acne, dark spots, and aging. Meanwhile, ILIA Beauty is widely loved for its thoughtful moisturizers and nourishing formulas that suit dry, normal, and combination skin best with gentle compositions like The Base Face Milk. Both brands refine daily routines, though they differ in their specific ingredient focus and ideal skin types.

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

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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 The INKEY List and ILIA Beauty products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

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The INKEY List vs ILIA Beauty moisturizers

Questions and answers

The INKEY List or ILIA Beauty: which is better?

The INKEY List offers a wide selection of affordable moisturizers, serums, and cleansers that achieve high fit levels for sensitive, combination, and acne-prone skin, whereas ILIA Beauty features only one facial moisturizer on the page with average fit ratings across all skin types.

What is the difference between The INKEY List and ILIA Beauty?

The INKEY List offers a wide variety of affordable skincare products with high fit levels for sensitive, combination, and acne-prone skin, whereas ILIA Beauty features just one moisturizer with average fit levels across all skin types.

The INKEY List or ILIA Beauty: which moisturizer is better?

The INKEY List offers a much wider selection of moisturizers on the products on this page than ILIA Beauty, which only lists a single moisturizer, The Base Face Milk. Reviewers report that The INKEY List provides hydrating, lightweight, and fast-absorbing options at affordable prices.

Which is more affordable, The INKEY List or ILIA Beauty?

The products on this page from The INKEY List feature affordable moisturizers and serums as noted by reviewers, whereas ILIA Beauty offers only one moisturizer on this page and lacks pricing highlights.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The INKEY List or ILIA Beauty?

The products on this page for The INKEY List sometimes have purging and breakouts noted by reviewers, while ILIA Beauty only features The Base Face Milk without specific breakout feedback. Both brands list no fragrance in their products.

Between The INKEY List and ILIA Beauty, which brand was founded earlier and in which country?

ILIA Beauty was founded earlier in 2011 in Canada, while The INKEY List started in 2018 in the United Kingdom.

How do the skin types that The INKEY List best fits compare to ILIA Beauty?

The products on this page for The INKEY List fit sensitive skin, combination skin, and acne-prone skin best, whereas ILIA Beauty does not list any specific skin types that it best fits.

What are the common packaging issues reported by reviewers of The INKEY List?

Reviewers of The INKEY List report that the products on this page have packaging issues.

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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