🇸🇬Singapore

Kiehl's vs ILIA Beauty

Kiehl's and ILIA Beauty are established skincare houses recognized for thoughtful moisturizers and nourishing formulations. The American heritage label relies on glycerin and squalane to support dry and mature skin through targeted serums, soothing toners, and gentle eye products, while the Canadian brand utilizes gentle, hydrating compositions to suit dry, normal, and combination skin. Although both offer reliable care for dry complexions, the first focuses heavily on barrier resilience and moisture loss, whereas the second champions clean, conscious beauty for daily routines.

Kiehl's is an American skincare brand founded in 1851 and owned by L'Oréal S.A. since 2000.

loreal.comen.wikipedia.org

ILIA Beauty is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2011 and owned by Famille C since 2022.

tracxn.comcosmeticsbusiness.com

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

Questions and answers

Kiehl's or ILIA Beauty: which is better?

Kiehl's offers a much larger selection of products on this page compared to ILIA Beauty, which features only a single moisturizer. Kiehl's products on this page frequently fit dry skin, mature skin, and oily acne-prone skin well.

What is the difference between Kiehl's and ILIA Beauty?

Kiehl's offers a wide range of 28 skincare products with varied Lovi fit levels across skin types, whereas ILIA Beauty features just one product on this page, The Base Face Milk, with average Lovi fit across all skin types.

Kiehl's or ILIA Beauty: which moisturizer is better?

When choosing between moisturizers from the products on this page, Kiehl's offers a wide selection with options like Hydro-Plumping Serum Concentrate achieving a Superior fit for dry skin, whereas ILIA Beauty provides only one moisturizer option, The Base Face Milk, which has an Average fit across skin types.

Which is more affordable, Kiehl's or ILIA Beauty?

Reviews on the Kiehl's page frequently note its high price point as a drawback, while the page for ILIA Beauty does not feature pricing complaints or specific price comparisons against Kiehl's.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Kiehl's or ILIA Beauty?

ILIA Beauty lists only one product on this page, while reviewers of Kiehl's mention that some products may cause breakouts and skin irritation.

When were Kiehl's and ILIA Beauty founded, and who currently owns them?

Kiehl's was founded in 1851 in the United States and has been owned by L'Oréal S.A. since 2000, while ILIA Beauty was founded in 2011 in Canada and is owned by Famille C since 2022.

Which Kiehl's products contain fragrance, and does ILIA Beauty include fragrance in its products?

Age Defender Moisturizer and Facial Fuel Energizing Moisture Treatment for Men are the Kiehl's products on this page that list fragrance. Every product on this page from ILIA Beauty lists no fragrance in its ingredients.

What are the key ingredients featured across Kiehl's products?

The products on this page for Kiehl's feature key ingredients such as glycerin, vitamin C, squalane, shea butter, and vitamin E.

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?

Scan your face, then any product: Lovi shows how well it fits you and what fits even better.