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Estée Lauder vs Anessa

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Estée Lauder and Anessa are established beauty labels from America and Japan, respectively. The American brand is beloved for its moisturizers, serums, and cleansers featuring hyaluronic acid and glycerin, suiting mature and oily acne-prone skin best. Conversely, the Japanese brand is widely loved for its advanced sunscreens and sophisticated formulas that suit all skin types. While both offer thoughtful solutions for complexions, they differ in their primary focus, with the former addressing aging and excess sebum, and the latter providing reliable daily protection.

Estée Lauder is an American skincare brand founded in 1946 and owned by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc..

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Anessa is a Japanese skincare brand founded in 1992 and owned by Shiseido Company, Limited.

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

Popular Estée Lauder vs Anessa products

Questions and answers

Estée Lauder or Anessa: which is better?

Both brands offer solid options, but Estée Lauder stands out with a much wider range of products on this page that provide deep hydration and suit mature skin, oily acne-prone skin, and dry skin.

What is the difference between Estée Lauder and Anessa?

Estée Lauder offers a wide range of skincare and makeup products with various Lovi fit levels across skin types, whereas Anessa features only sunscreens that have High or Average Lovi fit levels.

Estée Lauder or Anessa: which sunscreen is better?

When it comes to sunscreens, Estée Lauder DayWear Moisturizer achieves a Superior Lovi fit for dry sensitive skin, dry skin, sensitive skin, and mature skin, while Anessa features options like Perfect UV Sunscreen Skincare Milk with a High fit for oily skin and acne-prone skin.

Which is more affordable, Estée Lauder or Anessa?

The products on this page for Estée Lauder have reviewers mostly mentioning a high price point, whereas Anessa products are not noted for being expensive.

How do the countries of origin and founding years compare between Estée Lauder and Anessa?

Estée Lauder was founded in 1946 in the United States, while Anessa was founded in 1992 in Japan.

Which brand has more products that are completely free of fragrance ingredients?

Estée Lauder has more products that are completely free of fragrance ingredients, with 12 out of 14 products on this page listing no fragrance. In comparison, Anessa has 2 out of 2 products on this page that list no fragrance.

How does the Lovi fit level for dry skin compare between Estée Lauder's DayWear Moisturizer and Anessa's sunscreens?

For dry skin, Estée Lauder's DayWear Moisturizer achieves a Superior Lovi fit level, whereas Anessa's sunscreens reach an Average fit level.

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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