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Paula's Choice vs MAËLYS

Paula's Choice and MAËLYS are prominent American skincare brands founded in 1995. The former features serums, cleansers, moisturizers, toners, and more built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and vitamin c, suiting oily skin and combination skin best, whereas the latter is loved for targeted serums and advanced formulas that suit all skin types best. While the first brand relies on key ingredients like glycerin to significantly increase skin hydration and restore barrier function, both deliver thoughtful care through specialized solutions.

Paula's Choice is an American skincare brand founded in 1995 and owned by Unilever since 2021.

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

Questions and answers

Paula's Choice or MAËLYS: which is better?

Paula's Choice offers a much wider range of fragrance-free products with Superior and High fit levels across various skin types, whereas MAËLYS products mostly show Low or Caution fit levels on this page. Ingredients like niacinamide and retinol in Paula's Choice formulations help improve skin pigmentation and signs of aging.

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What is the difference between Paula's Choice and MAËLYS?

Paula's Choice offers a wide selection of fragrance-free skincare products with Superior to High Lovi fit levels across multiple skin types, whereas MAËLYS features very few products on this page that mostly show Low fit levels. Paula's Choice relies on proven active ingredients like niacinamide and retinol, which help manage aging and pigmentation.

The British Journal of Dermatology, 2002Archives of Dermatology, 2007

Which is more affordable, Paula's Choice or MAËLYS?

Reviewers on this page mostly mention high prices as a drawback for Paula's Choice, while no pricing information is available for MAËLYS.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Paula's Choice or MAËLYS?

Paula's Choice helps prevent breakouts, as the products on this page achieve a Superior fit for acne-prone skin and include salicylic acid and niacinamide, whereas MAËLYS is mostly unsuited or shows a Low fit for acne-prone skin.

The Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 2013The British Journal of Dermatology, 2002

Which brand was founded earlier in the United States, Paula's Choice or MAËLYS?

Paula's Choice was founded earlier in the United States in 1995, whereas MAËLYS was founded in 2017.

How many products have no fragrance listed across both brands on this page?

Paula's Choice has 33 products on this page and every single one lists no fragrance in its ingredients, while MAËLYS has 1 of its 2 products listing no fragrance.

Which Paula's Choice products are rated as having a Superior fit for dry skin?

Paula's Choice products on this page rated with a Superior fit for dry skin include Skin Recovery Enriched Calming Toner, RESIST Super Antioxidant Concentrate Serum, Advanced Replenishing Toner, and Pro-Collagen Multi-Peptide Booster.

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.

How does it fit your skin?

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