Bio-Oil vs Environ
Bio-Oil and Environ are two trusted skincare options designed to nourish and support overall skin health. The first brand offers specialized product types and expertly blended formulas that suit dry, mature, and uneven skin types best, featuring a standout Skincare Oil for daily hydration and texture improvement on acne-prone skin. Meanwhile, the second brand provides luxurious masks and advanced formulas that suit sensitive, dry, and mature skin best, with a standout Tri BioBotanical Revival Masque for acne-prone skin. While both deliver gentle, targeted care through carefully crafted treatments, they differ in their specific product ranges and unique ingredient blends.
This page compares some of the most popular Bio-Oil and Environ products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Questions and answers
Bio-Oil or Environ: which is better?
Neither brand is universally better, as Bio-Oil fits dry, mature, and dark-spotted skin at an Average level with its fragranced Skincare Oil, while Environ achieves Average fits for oily and acne-prone skin using fragrance-free products.
What is the difference between Bio-Oil and Environ?
Bio-Oil features a fragranced skincare oil that Lovi rates as average for dry skin and dark spots, whereas Environ offers an unfragranced mask that Lovi rates as average for dark spots, acne-prone, and oily skin.
Which is more affordable, Bio-Oil or Environ?
The page facts do not mention the prices of Bio-Oil or Environ products, so affordability cannot be compared here.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Bio-Oil or Environ?
Environ causes fewer breakouts than Bio-Oil because the products on this page for Environ earn average Lovi fit levels for acne-prone skin, whereas Bio-Oil products receive caution or warning ratings.
Which brand includes fragrance in its skincare products, Bio-Oil or Environ?
Bio-Oil includes fragrance in its products on this page, while every Environ product on this page lists no fragrance.
How do the Lovi fit levels for acne-prone skin compare between Bio-Oil and Environ?
Environ earns an Average Lovi fit level for acne-prone skin with the products on this page, whereas Bio-Oil receives a Caution fit level. Environ avoids fragrance in its products, which helps sensitive and breakout-prone skin.
When were the parent companies of Bio-Oil and Environ founded?
Bio-Oil was founded in 1987 and Environ was founded in 1990.
Research behind their key ingredients
Chemical peels for acne vulgaris: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials
Comedogenicity in rabbit: some cosmetic ingredients/vehicles
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.
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Co-founder, Medical Director
Cosmetic chemist, cosmetologist, aesthetic products developer
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Co-founder, CEO and CTO
PhD in computer science, 3x US patent holder, ex-Google, ex-Yandex
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Dr. Sof铆a Perea P茅rez, MD, MSc
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Aesthetic medicine practitioner, MSc in Longevity and Anti-Aging Medicine
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Specialist dermatologist, MBBS, MD, IFAAD
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Cosmetic chemist, SCS, IFSCC member
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Dermatology MD
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Elina Nazarenko, MD
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Dermatology and diagnostic consultant
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Victoria Derkova, MS
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Cosmetic chemist, cosmetic development technologist
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