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Kiehl's vs Carotone

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Kiehl's and Carotone are established skincare options offering distinct approaches to daily beauty routines. The American brand founded in 1851 features trusted ingredients like glycerin and squalane within moisturizers, serums, toners, and eye products that suit dry skin and skin with dark spots best. Meanwhile, the second line is known for targeted serums and carefully crafted formulas that suit dry, normal, and combination skin best. Ultimately, both brands differ through their unique ingredient profiles, specific product types, and targeted skin type alignments.

Kiehl's is an American skincare brand founded in 1851 and owned by L'Oréal S.A. since 2000.

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This page compares some of the most popular Kiehl's and Carotone products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Popular Kiehl's vs Carotone products

Kiehl's vs Carotone serums and treatments

Questions and answers

Kiehl's or Carotone: which is better?

Kiehl's is generally better as the products on this page offer a wide variety of formulas suited for dry skin, skin with dark spots, and combination skin, whereas Carotone features only a single brightening cream with average fit levels across all skin types.

What is the difference between Kiehl's and Carotone?

Kiehl's offers a wide range of cleansers, toners, and moisturizers that fit dry skin, skin with dark spots, and combination skin, whereas Carotone features a single brightening cream with average fit levels across most skin types. Reviewers frequently note that Kiehl's provides deep hydration and lightweight moisturizers, though some mention a high price point or potential breakouts.

Which is more affordable, Kiehl's or Carotone?

Carotone is more affordable, whereas reviewers often mention a high price point for the products on this page by Kiehl's.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Kiehl's or Carotone?

Carotone products on this page are unlikely to cause breakouts, whereas reviewers of Kiehl's often note breakouts and skin irritation.

Which brand has been around longer, Kiehl's or Carotone?

Kiehl's has been around much longer, having been founded in the United States in 1851, while Carotone was established much later in 2009.

How many products from Kiehl's contain fragrance compared to Carotone?

Kiehl's features 26 products on this page that list no fragrance and two products with fragrance, while Carotone has no fragrance listed across the products on this page.

What are the parent companies of Kiehl's and Carotone?

Kiehl's is owned by L'Oréal S.A., whereas Carotone is owned by Nouvelle Parfumerie Gandour.

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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