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Elemis vs VR

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Elemis and VR are skincare lines that balance careful formulation with daily efficacy. Elemis is a British brand celebrated for nourishing serums, rich moisturizers, gentle cleansers, and refining toners featuring glycerin and shea, while the other is appreciated for the sensory pleasure of its moisturizers and the considered design of its formulas. The British brand suits dry skin and mature skin best thanks to deeply restorative qualities, whereas both brands accommodate combination, sensitive, and dry skin. They differ in their specific offerings, as the first provides the Pro-Collagen Advanced Eye Treatment, the Pro-Collagen Tri-Acid Peel, and the Pro-Collagen Marine Cream, while the other features the PDRN CREAM for acne-prone skin.

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 VR products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Popular Elemis vs VR products

Elemis vs VR moisturizers

Questions and answers

Elemis or VR: which is better?

Elemis is generally better for dry and mature skin types, offering a wide range of hydrating moisturizers and targeted treatments on this page. However, VR may be preferred by those seeking fragrance-free formulas, as its products on this page list no fragrance.

What is the difference between Elemis and VR?

Elemis is a larger, established brand offering a wide range of 22 products that best fit dry, mature, and dry sensitive skin, though most products on this page contain fragrance. In contrast, VR is an independent brand featuring only one fragrance-free product on this page, which has a High Lovi fit level for sensitive skin.

Elemis or VR: which moisturizer is better?

Elemis offers a wider range of moisturizers with superior and high Lovi fit levels for dry and mature skin, whereas the VR PDRN CREAM has an average fit for dry and mature skin. Reviewers mostly mention that Elemis moisturizers provide hydrating benefits, though some note a strong fragrance.

Which is more affordable, Elemis or VR?

Reviewers of Elemis note a high price point for the products on this page, while no pricing or affordability details are available for VR.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Elemis or VR?

VR has only one product on this page, which has an average or low Lovi fit level for acne-prone skin, while Elemis has many products on this page with varying fit levels for acne-prone skin.

How does the country of origin and founding year compare between Elemis and VR?

Elemis was founded in the United Kingdom in 1989, whereas VR was founded in 2018 with no country of origin listed on the page.

Which brand offers a greater variety of products with fragrance-free formulations, Elemis or VR?

VR offers a greater variety of products with fragrance-free formulations, as every product on its page lists no fragrance, whereas only 4 of the 22 products on the Elemis page list no fragrance.

How do the skin types that Elemis and VR fit best differ from one another?

Elemis fits dry skin, mature skin, and dry sensitive skin best according to its brand-focused routines, whereas VR does not list any best-fit skin types on this page.

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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