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The INKEY List vs Catrice

Rated by Lovi · Unbiased, science-based skincare AI trained on real user outcomes · How the Fit score works

The INKEY List and Catrice are accessible beauty brands offering targeted daily care through thoughtful formulations. The British skincare brand is known for moisturizers, serums, toners, and eye products built around glycerin, which significantly increases skin hydration and restores barrier function, suiting combination and sensitive skin best. Meanwhile, the German skincare brand is beloved for refined eye products, suiting combination, oily, and normal skin. While both deliver reliable daily performance, they differ in their specific product lineups and key ingredient focuses.

The INKEY List is a British skincare brand founded in 2018 and owned by Brand Evangelists for Beauty Limited.

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Catrice is a German skincare brand founded in 2004 and owned by cosnova.

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This page compares some of the most popular The INKEY List and Catrice products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Popular The INKEY List vs Catrice products

Questions and answers

The INKEY List or Catrice: which is better?

The INKEY List offers a much wider selection of skincare products on this page across multiple categories like cleansers, serums, and toners compared to Catrice, which only features a single eye product. Reviewers frequently mention that The INKEY List provides affordable and lightweight moisturizers.

What is the difference between The INKEY List and Catrice?

The INKEY List offers a wide variety of 16 skincare products on this page spanning cleansers, serums, toners, and moisturizers that fit combination, sensitive, and oily acne-prone skin best. In contrast, Catrice features only a single Under Eye Brightener on this page, which has a High fit level for dry and sensitive skin.

Which is more affordable, The INKEY List or Catrice?

The INKEY List features affordable moisturizers and serums, while the Catrice products on this page do not mention affordability.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The INKEY List or Catrice?

The INKEY List offers a wide range of products including cleansers and toners for acne-prone skin, whereas Catrice only features an eye product on this page. Reviewers note that The INKEY List products sometimes mention purging and breakouts, but Lovi rates several of their items as having a Superior or High fit for acne-prone skin.

When and where were The INKEY List and Catrice founded?

The INKEY List was founded in the United Kingdom in 2018, while Catrice was founded in Germany in 2004.

How many products are listed for Catrice compared to The INKEY List on the page?

Catrice has 1 product listed on the page, while The INKEY List features 16 products.

Do any products from The INKEY List or Catrice contain fragrance?

Every product from The INKEY List and Catrice on this page lists no fragrance in its ingredients.

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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