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Kiehl's vs grace & stella

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Kiehl's and grace & stella are two skincare lines offering distinct daily care routines for different complexions. The American brand, established in 1851, provides moisturizers, serums, toners, and eye products featuring glycerin and squalane, which suit dry skin and dark spots best by increasing hydration and counteracting oxidative stress. Meanwhile, the Canadian company, founded in 2016, is celebrated for nourishing eye products and moisturizers that suit all skin types with gentle hydration and restorative care. While the former focuses on targeted barrier function and brightening properties through ingredients like calendula, the latter delivers balanced, everyday maintenance through versatile self-care essentials.

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

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grace & stella is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2016 and owned by Gravitiq since 2022.

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

Popular Kiehl's vs grace & stella products

Questions and answers

Kiehl's or grace & stella: which is better?

Kiehl's offers a much larger selection of products on this page, with superior fits for oily skin and dry skin, while grace & stella features only two options. Key ingredients like hyaluronic acid help provide hydration across both brands.

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What is the difference between Kiehl's and grace & stella?

Kiehl's offers a broad selection of twenty-eight skincare products on this page covering cleansers, toners, serums, and moisturizers that fit dry skin and skin with dark spots best. In contrast, grace & stella provides a very limited selection of only two products on this page consisting of an eye mask and a hyaluronic acid serum. Both brands feature fragrance-free options across the products on this page, though Kiehl's includes a high price point among reviewer concerns.

Kiehl's or grace & stella: which moisturizer is better?

For moisturizers, Kiehl's offers a much wider range of products on this page with varying Lovi fits from Average to Superior depending on the skin type, such as the Hydro-Plumping Serum Concentrate which has a Superior fit for dry skin. In contrast, grace & stella features just one moisturizer, the Hyaluronic Acid Serum, which has a High fit for dry sensitive, dry, sensitive, mature, and skin with dark spots, and an Average fit for oily and combination skin. Topical hyaluronic acid helps improve skin quality and signs of skin aging.

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Which is more affordable, Kiehl's or grace & stella?

Reviewers on this page often mention that Kiehl's has a high price point. The products on this page for grace & stella do not have pricing data mentioned.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Kiehl's or grace & stella?

grace & stella causes fewer breakouts as all products on this page list no fragrance, whereas Kiehl's reviewers often report breakouts and skin irritation.

How do the founding years and countries of origin compare between Kiehl's and grace & stella?

Kiehl's was founded in 1851 in the United States, whereas grace & stella was founded much later in 2016 in Canada.

Which brand offers more fragrance-free products, Kiehl's or grace & stella?

Grace & stella offers fragrance-free options across all the products on this page, whereas Kiehl's includes fragrance in two of its items.

How does the variety of available products differ between Kiehl's and grace & stella based on the page?

Kiehl's offers a much larger selection across multiple skincare categories on this page, while grace & stella features only two products. The products on this page from Kiehl's cover diverse routines for various skin types and concerns.

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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