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Elemis vs Carotone

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Elemis and Carotone are distinct skincare lines recognized for their specialized product offerings and ingredient profiles. The British brand, founded in 1989 and owned by L'Occitane Group since 2019, offers expertly formulated serums, moisturizers, cleansers, toners, and more enriched with glycerin and shea to suit dry, balanced, and sensitive skin best. Meanwhile, the second brand is loved for its targeted serums and carefully crafted formulas that suit dry, normal, and combination skin best. While both feature standout products like brightening or hydrating creams for acne-prone skin, dark spots, and mature skin, they differ in their overarching formulations, with the former emphasizing deeply hydrating ingredients like glycerin and shea butter for gentle care.

Elemis is a British skincare brand founded in 1989 and owned by L'Occitane Group since 2019.

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

Popular Elemis vs Carotone products

Elemis vs Carotone serums and treatments

Questions and answers

Elemis or Carotone: which is better?

Elemis is a better fit for shoppers seeking a wide range of options, offering numerous products on this page like the Pro-Collagen Marine Cream that achieves a Superior fit for mature skin. In contrast, Carotone features only a single product on this page, the Brightening Cream, which has an Average fit across skin types.

What is the difference between Elemis and Carotone?

Elemis is a larger, older brand owned by L'Occitane Group with twenty-two different skincare products on this page, whereas Carotone is a newer brand owned by Nouvelle Parfumerie Gandour featuring just one brightening cream.

Which is more affordable, Elemis or Carotone?

Reviews mostly mention that Elemis has a high price point. Carotone is an alternative brand found on this page.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Elemis or Carotone?

Carotone may cause fewer breakouts than Elemis because the products on this page for Carotone have no fragrance listed, whereas most Elemis products contain fragrance, which sometimes causes skin irritation.

Which brand has been on the market longer, Elemis or Carotone?

Elemis has been on the market longer, having been founded in the United Kingdom in 1989, whereas Carotone was founded in 2009.

Do Elemis products or Carotone products contain fragrance?

Elemis products on this page often contain fragrance, with only 4 out of 22 listing no fragrance in their ingredients. In contrast, Carotone products on this page do not contain fragrance, as every product lists no fragrance.

Which company owns Elemis and which company owns Carotone?

Elemis is owned by the L'Occitane Group, while Carotone is owned by Nouvelle Parfumerie Gandour.

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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