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The INKEY List vs NIOD

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The INKEY List and NIOD are British and Canadian skincare brands offering distinct approaches to daily care. The INKEY List focuses on moisturizers, serums, toners, and eye products built around glycerin, making its collection best suited for dry and dry sensitive skin. Meanwhile, the Canadian brand is widely loved for advanced serums and balancing toners that feature sophisticated formulas suited for mature, sensitive, and dry skin types. While both provide targeted solutions for concerns like acne-prone skin and dark spots, they differ through the former brand's direct ingredient focus and the latter brand's scientifically rigorous development.

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

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NIOD is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2015 and owned by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. since 2021.

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

Popular The INKEY List vs NIOD products

Questions and answers

The INKEY List or NIOD: which is better?

The INKEY List offers far more choices on this page with various fit levels, such as a Superior fit for dry skin with its Polyglutamic Acid Serum, whereas NIOD features only two products. Reviewers often mention that The INKEY List provides affordable and hydrating moisturizers, though some note packaging issues.

What is the difference between The INKEY List and NIOD?

The INKEY List offers a much wider range of sixteen affordable products on this page compared to just two from NIOD. The products on this page from both brands list no fragrance in their ingredients.

Which is more affordable, The INKEY List or NIOD?

The INKEY List offers affordable moisturizers and serums, while NIOD has no products on this page noted for affordability.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The INKEY List or NIOD?

The products on this page for The INKEY List sometimes note purging and breakouts as a side effect, whereas NIOD products have no such reviews on this page, though neither brand has published clinical studies proving one causes fewer breakouts than the other.

When were The INKEY List and NIOD founded, and which countries are they from?

The INKEY List was founded in 2018 in the United Kingdom, while NIOD was founded in 2015 in Canada.

How do the Lovi fit levels for dry skin compare between The INKEY List's Caffeine Eye Cream and NIOD's Modulating Glucosides?

For dry skin, The INKEY List's Caffeine Eye Cream has a Superior Lovi fit level, whereas NIOD's Modulating Glucosides has a High Lovi fit level.

Do any products from either The INKEY List or NIOD contain fragrance in their ingredients?

Every product on this page from both The INKEY List and NIOD 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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