No7 vs Blume
No7 and Blume are distinct skincare brands founded respectively in Britain in 1935 and in Canada in 2018. The British brand offers serums, eye products, moisturizers, sunscreens, and more built around vitamin c, shea butter, and hyaluronic acid, suiting mature skin and dry skin best through formulations like the Protect & Perfect Intense Advanced Night Cream. Meanwhile, the Canadian brand is widely loved for its nourishing moisturizers and thoughtful formulas featuring the standout Meltdown Gel Cream, which suit sensitive, acne-prone, and dry skin best. While both support a healthy complexion, the brands differ primarily in their heritage, ingredient profiles, and target skin types.
No7 is a British skincare brand founded in 1935 and owned by Sycamore Partners since 2025.
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Blume is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2018.
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This page compares some of the most popular No7 and Blume products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Popular No7 vs Blume products
Questions and answers
No7 or Blume: which is better?
No7 offers a much wider range of products on this page with Superior and High fit levels for mature and dry skin, whereas Blume only features one product called Meltdown Gel Cream. No7 relies on key ingredients like retinol, niacinamide, and vitamin C, which help target signs of aging and pigmentation.
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What is the difference between No7 and Blume?
No7 is an older UK-based brand founded in 1935 with a wide range of products that fit mature, dry, and sensitive skin best, while Blume is a newer independent Canadian brand founded in 2018 with a fragrance-free product selection.
No7 or Blume: which moisturizer is better?
For moisturizers, No7 has a higher Lovi fit of Superior for mature skin with its Protect & Perfect Intense Advanced Night Cream, while Blume offers Meltdown Gel Cream with a High fit for acne-prone skin.
Which is more affordable, No7 or Blume?
The provided page facts and studies do not contain pricing information to compare the affordability of No7 and Blume.
Which causes fewer breakouts, No7 or Blume?
Blume fits acne-prone skin with a High Lovi fit level for its Meltdown Gel Cream, whereas No7 has products like Restore & Renew Serum with a High fit for acne-prone skin and others with Average fit.
How do the founding years and countries of origin compare between No7 and Blume?
No7 was founded in 1935 in the United Kingdom, whereas Blume was founded much later in 2018 in Canada.
Which No7 products contain fragrance compared to Blume having no fragrance across its products?
Among the products on this page, Future Renew Damage Reversal Night Cream, Lift & Luminate Day Cream, and Protect & Perfect Intense Advanced Day Cream contain fragrance, while Blume lists no fragrance in any of its products.
What are some of the key ingredients found across No7 products?
Some of the key ingredients found across No7 products on this page include Vitamin C, shea butter, hyaluronic acid, and niacinamide. Niacinamide helps control skin aging and pigmentation.
Research behind their key ingredients
Molecular basis of retinol anti-ageing properties in naturally aged human skin in vivo
Effects of ascorbic acid on gingival melanin pigmentation in vitro and in vivo
The evaluation of aluminum oxide crystal microdermabrasion for photodamage
Clinical and histologic changes determine optimal treatment regimens for microdermabrasion
Treatment with Ascorbyl Glucoside-Arginine Complex Ameliorates Solar Lentigos
Targeting Circadian Rhythm for the Regulation of Skin Collagen Metabolism
Retrospective Review of Dermal Safety Studies of Organic Sunscreens
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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