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Clarins vs Sand & Sky

Rated by Lovi · Unbiased, science-based skincare AI trained on real user outcomes · How the Fit score works

Clarins and Sand & Sky are skincare brands that offer distinct approaches to complexion care. Clarins is a French skincare brand founded in 1954 and owned by Famille C, which is loved for its luxurious moisturizers, potent serums, soothing eye products, and gentle toners enriched with nourishing shea and hydrating squalane. Sand & Sky is beloved for its purifying masks and targeted formulas featuring botanical ingredients that gently clarify and balance the complexion. The former suits sensitive and dry sensitive skin best with its gentle formulations, including the Double Serum Light Texture for acne-prone skin, the Extra-Firming Day Cream for skin with dark spots, and the Super Restorative Night Cream for mature skin, while the latter suits combination, oily, and acne-prone skin best, featuring the Australian Pink Clay Porefining Face Mask for acne-prone skin. Both differ through their key offerings, as the French brand utilizes shea butter to reduce redness and protect the skin and squalane to increase collagen and fight skin damage, whereas the latter relies on botanical ingredients.

Clarins is a French skincare brand founded in 1954 and owned by Famille C (Groupe Clarins).

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This page compares some of the most popular Clarins and Sand & Sky products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

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Questions and answers

Clarins or Sand & Sky: which is better?

Clarins offers a much wider range of products that Lovi rates as a High fit for sensitive, dry sensitive, and mature skin compared to Sand & Sky. The products on this page feature key ingredients like hyaluronic acid, which helps improve skin hydration and signs of aging.

Dermatologic Therapy, 2022

What is the difference between Clarins and Sand & Sky?

Clarins offers a broad range of products on this page with high or superior fit levels for sensitive, dry sensitive, and mature skin, whereas Sand & Sky features only a single mask geared toward acne-prone, oily, and combination skin. Lovi rates the Australian Pink Clay Porefining Face Mask as a High fit for oily skin, while Clarins products on this page include various moisturizers and cleansers featuring ingredients like hyaluronic acid that may help improve skin hydration.

Dermatologic Therapy, 2022

Which is more affordable, Clarins or Sand & Sky?

Reviewers note that Clarins has a high price point, whereas the products on this page for Sand & Sky do not have enough pricing feedback to compare directly.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Clarins or Sand & Sky?

Clarins fits acne-prone skin at an Average level across the products on this page, whereas the Australian Pink Clay Porefining Face Mask from Sand & Sky has a High fit for acne-prone skin.

How do the founding years and origins of Clarins and Sand & Sky compare?

Clarins was founded in 1954 in France, whereas Sand & Sky was founded in 2017 with its origin not specified on the page.

Which brand offers more products with fragrance listed, Clarins or Sand & Sky?

Clarins offers significantly more products with fragrance listed compared to Sand and Sky, as 23 of its 24 products on the products on this page include fragrance. In contrast, Sand and Sky lists fragrance in its only product on the products on this page.

What are some of the key ingredients shared across Clarins products?

Some of the key ingredients shared across the products on this page for Clarins include shea butter, squalane, oat, hyaluronic acid, vitamin E, and glycerin. Topical hyaluronic acid helps improve skin quality and signs of skin aging, while vitamin E may help provide anti-aging and brightening effects.

Dermatologic Therapy, 2022Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, 2020

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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