Lancôme vs MAËLYS
Lancôme and MAËLYS are distinct skincare brands offering specialized approaches to personal care. The French heritage brand, founded in 1935, is celebrated for its sophisticated moisturizers, eye products, serums, and toners enriched with glycerin, hyaluronic acid, and adenosine to support dry, mature, acne-prone, and uneven skin with hydrating, smoothing, and restorative properties. Conversely, the second brand is loved for targeted serums and advanced formulas that deliver thoughtful care and suit all skin types best. While both provide effective standouts like targeted acne solutions and treatments for dark spots, the historic house focuses on comprehensive facial longevity and barrier function through proven compounds.
Lancôme is a French skincare brand founded in 1935 and owned by L'Oréal S.A. since 1964.
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This page compares some of the most popular Lancôme and MAËLYS products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Questions and answers
Lancôme or MAËLYS: which is better?
What is the difference between Lancôme and MAËLYS?
Lancôme offers a wide range of skincare products that achieve High fits for specific skin types like sensitive or dry skin, whereas the products on this page for MAËLYS generally show Low or Average fits. Lancôme features key ingredients such as glycerin and hyaluronic acid, which helps improve skin hydration.
Which is more affordable, Lancôme or MAËLYS?
Reviewers of Lancôme products on this page note a high price point. The page facts do not provide pricing information for MAËLYS to compare affordability.
Which brand was founded earlier, Lancôme or MAËLYS?
Lancome was founded earlier, in 1935 in France, whereas MAELYS was founded in 2017.
How many Lancôme products contain fragrance compared to MAËLYS?
On the Lovi page, 3 of 14 Lancôme products list no fragrance while the rest contain it, compared to 1 of 2 MAËLYS products. Glycerin helps improve hydration across the products on this page.
What are the key ingredients shared across Lancôme products?
The products on this page for Lancôme share glycerin, hyaluronic acid, and adenosine as key ingredients. Glycerin and hyaluronic acid help improve skin hydration.
Research behind their key ingredients
Spent Yeast Waste Streams as a Sustainable Source of Bioactive Peptides for Skin Applications
A Rose Extract Protects the Skin against Stress Mediators: A Potential Role of Olfactory Receptors
Design and in vivo evaluation of emulgel formulations including green tea extract and rose oil
Safety of a preservative system containing 1,2-hexanediol and caprylyl glycol
Histometric assessment of the age-related skin response to 2-hydroxy-5-octanoyl benzoic acid
Evaluation of a retinol containing topical treatment to improve signs of neck aging
Nanocomplex of quaternized cyclodextrin grafted chitosan and hyaluronic acid for a skin delivery
Treatment with Ascorbyl Glucoside-Arginine Complex Ameliorates Solar Lentigos
Skin moisturization by hydrogenated polyisobutene--quantitative and visual evaluation
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. Sofía Perea Pérez, MD, MSc
Medical Board
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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Medical Board, Medical Advisor
Dermatology MD
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Elina Nazarenko, MD
Medical Board
Dermatology and diagnostic consultant
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Victoria Derkova, MS
Medical Board
Cosmetic chemist, cosmetic development technologist
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