🇦🇪United Arab Emirates

Paula's Choice vs Taro

Paula's Choice and Taro are established skincare names offering diverse daily care options for modern routines. Paula's Choice is an American brand founded in 1995 and owned by Unilever since 2021, known for serums, cleansers, moisturizers, toners, and more built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and vitamin c. Taro is warmly embraced for its targeted serums and carefully crafted formulas. Both differ as the first fits oily and combination skin best with key ingredients like glycerin to significantly increase skin hydration and restore barrier function, whereas the second suits sensitive, dry, and combination skin best.

Paula's Choice is an American skincare brand founded in 1995 and owned by Unilever since 2021.

unilever.comtracxn.com

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

Questions and answers

Paula's Choice or Taro: which is better?

Paula's Choice offers a much wider variety of fragrance-free products on this page that fit oily, combination, and acne-prone skin best, whereas Taro features only one medicated option, Tretinoin Cream. Paula's Choice helps with anti-aging and hydration using ingredients like retinol and hyaluronic acid, which may stimulate collagen and improve skin quality.

The Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 2000Dermatologic Therapy, 2022

What is the difference between Paula's Choice and Taro?

Paula's Choice offers a broad range of products with Lovi fit levels ranging from Superior to Caution across multiple skin types, whereas Taro features only a Tretinoin Cream that has High to Low fits. Paula's Choice products on this page list no fragrance and utilize key ingredients like hyaluronic acid and niacinamide, which may help improve skin quality and reduce pigmentation.

Dermatologic Therapy, 2022The British Journal of Dermatology, 2002

Which is more affordable, Paula's Choice or Taro?

The products on this page for Paula's Choice have reviewers mostly mentioning a high price, while Taro's pricing is not detailed here.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Paula's Choice or Taro?

Paula's Choice offers multiple products on this page rated with a Superior Lovi fit level for acne-prone skin, whereas Taro features only one treatment with a High fit level for this skin type.

How does the founding year and parent company of Paula's Choice compare to Taro?

Paula's Choice was founded in 1995 in the United States and has been owned by Unilever since 2021. In comparison, Taro was founded in 1950 and has been owned by Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited since 2010.

Which brand offers fragrance-free products, Paula's Choice, Taro, or both?

Both Paula's Choice and Taro offer fragrance-free options, as every product listed on this page for both brands contains no fragrance in its ingredients.

What key ingredients are found across Paula's Choice products?

Paula's Choice products feature key ingredients such as hyaluronic acid, glycerin, vitamin c, licorice root, niacinamide, salicylic acid, green tea, and vitamin e.

Drug Delivery, 2017Carcinogenesis, 2001

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.