Allies of Skin vs Taro
Allies of Skin and Taro are skincare lines that offer targeted daily care. Allies of Skin is loved for its luxurious moisturizers, potent serums, and targeted eye products formulated with powerhouse ingredients like niacinamide, suiting dry and acne-prone skin best. Meanwhile, Taro is warmly embraced for its targeted serums and carefully crafted formulas, suiting sensitive, dry, and combination skin best. The main difference lies in their specific formulations, with both brands providing reliable daily care for modern routines.
This page compares some of the most popular Allies of Skin and Taro products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Popular Allies of Skin vs Taro products
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Copper Tripeptide & Ectoin Advanced Repair Serum
AED 601.29
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Tranexamic & Arbutin Advanced Brightening Serum
AED 650.47
- Retinal & Peptides Repair Night Cream
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Peptides & Omegas Firming Eye Cream
AED 378.00
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Peptides & Antioxidants Firming Daily Treatment
AED 230.55
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Molecular Saviour Probiotics Treatment Mist
AED 349.00
Questions and answers
Allies of Skin or Taro: which is better?
Allies of Skin is better for overall hydration and anti-aging care, fitting dry and acne-prone skin best across the products on this page. Taro offers Tretinoin Cream, which may help with acne-prone and combination skin.
What is the difference between Allies of Skin and Taro?
Allies of Skin is a newer brand founded in 2016 that offers a wide range of serums, moisturizers, and eye products, whereas Taro is a long-standing brand founded in 1950 featuring a tretinoin cream on this page. Niacinamide helps reduce cutaneous pigmentation and suppresses melanosome transfer, while tretinoin restores collagen formation in photodamaged human skin.
The British Journal of Dermatology, 2002The New England Journal of Medicine, 1993
Which is more affordable, Allies of Skin or Taro?
Reviews note a high price point for the products on this page by Allies of Skin, while Taro is not mentioned as having high prices.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Allies of Skin or Taro?
Allies of Skin fits acne-prone skin and oily acne-prone skin at a High level across multiple products on this page, whereas Taro's Tretinoin Cream achieves only an Average fit for oily acne-prone skin and a High fit for acne-prone skin. Tretinoin helps increase cell turnover to address acne, but it may cause initial irritation.
Which brand has been on the market longer, Allies of Skin or Taro?
Taro has been on the market much longer, having been founded in 1950, whereas Allies of Skin was founded in 2016.
How do the skin type fit levels for mature skin compare between Allies of Skin and Taro products?
Allies of Skin products achieve a High to Superior fit for mature skin, whereas Taro's Tretinoin Cream has an Average fit for this skin type. Tretinoin helps restore collagen formation in photodamaged human skin.
Do products from Allies of Skin or Taro contain fragrance in their ingredients?
Every product on this page from both Allies of Skin and Taro lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
Research behind their key ingredients
The effect of niacinamide on reducing cutaneous pigmentation and suppression of melanosome transfer
Restoration of collagen formation in photodamaged human skin by tretinoin (retinoic acid)
Topical tretinoin for treating photoaging: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials
A comparative study of gluconolactone versus benzoyl peroxide in the treatment of acne
Supramolecular collagen nanoparticles for anti-wrinkle, skin whitening, and moisturizing effects
Clinical efficacy of facial masks containing yoghurt and Opuntia humifusa Raf. (F-YOP)
Targeting Circadian Rhythm for the Regulation of Skin Collagen Metabolism
Effects of a Greek Yoghurt-based Complex on the Human Facial Skin Microbiome
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.
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Co-founder, Medical Director
Cosmetic chemist, cosmetologist, aesthetic products developer
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Co-founder, CEO and CTO
PhD in computer science, 3x US patent holder, ex-Google, ex-Yandex
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Dr. Sofía Perea Pérez, MD, MSc
Medical Board
Aesthetic medicine practitioner, MSc in Longevity and Anti-Aging Medicine
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Medical Board
Specialist dermatologist, MBBS, MD, IFAAD
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Medical Board
Cosmetic chemist, SCS, IFSCC member
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Medical Board, Medical Advisor
Dermatology MD
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Elina Nazarenko, MD
Medical Board
Dermatology and diagnostic consultant
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Victoria Derkova, MS
Medical Board
Cosmetic chemist, cosmetic development technologist
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