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Kiehl's vs Taro

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Kiehl's and Taro are respected skincare brands offering reliable daily care for modern routines. Kiehl's is widely loved for its thoughtful array of moisturizers, serums, toners, eye products, and more, anchored by nourishing ingredients like glycerin and squalane, while Taro is warmly embraced for its targeted serums and carefully crafted formulas. The former suits skin with dark spots and dry skin best, whereas the latter suits sensitive, dry, and combination skin best. Ultimately, they differ in their foundational formulations and specific target concerns, as the American brand relies on barrier-restoring compounds and botanical extracts like calendula, while the alternative centers its offerings around treatments like Tretinoin Cream.

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

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

Popular Kiehl's vs Taro products

Kiehl's vs Taro serums and treatments

Questions and answers

Kiehl's or Taro: which is better?

Kiehl's offers a wide variety of skincare products on this page that achieve High or Superior Lovi fit levels across multiple skin types, whereas Taro features only one topical product with limited fit. Reviewers often note that Kiehl's provides deep hydration and lightweight moisturizers, though some users report breakouts and irritation.

What is the difference between Kiehl's and Taro?

Kiehl's offers a wide range of products with varying fit levels across multiple skin types, whereas Taro features a single product, Tretinoin Cream, which shows High fit for combination and acne-prone skin. Tretinoin helps restore collagen formation in photodamaged human skin.

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Which is more affordable, Kiehl's or Taro?

This page does not provide pricing information to compare the affordability of Kiehl's and Taro.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Kiehl's or Taro?

Kiehl's has products on this page rated High for acne-prone skin, such as the Calendula Deep Cleansing Foaming Face Wash, whereas Taro offers Tretinoin Cream which has a High fit level for acne-prone skin.

Which brand has been owned by its parent company for a longer period of time, Kiehl's or Taro?

Kiehl's has been owned by its parent company since 2000, while Taro has been owned by its parent company since 2010. Therefore, Kiehl's has been owned by its parent company for a longer period of time.

How many products are listed for Kiehl's compared to Taro on the comparison page?

Kiehl's has twenty-eight products listed on this page, while Taro has only one product listed. This wide selection gives Kiehl's a much larger range of options for different skin types.

Which of the two brands offers products that contain fragrance in their ingredients?

Kiehl's offers products that contain fragrance, as 2 of the 28 products on this page list fragrance in their ingredients. Taro lists no fragrance in the ingredients for every product 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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