Biore and Anessa are Japanese skincare brands founded in 1980 and 1992, respectively, offering carefully balanced formulas for daily routines. Biore provides a thoughtful range of sunscreens, cleansers, masks, and makeup removers that suit sensitive skin and dry skin best, while Anessa is widely loved for advanced sunscreens and sophisticated formulas that suit all skin types best. These creations differ because the former brand relies on gentle nature and standout solutions like UV Aqua Rich, Makeup Remover Perfect Oil, and Deep Pore Charcoal Cleanser, whereas the latter brand shields and cares for the complexion with standout products like Perfect UV Sunscreen Skincare Milk and Perfect UV Sunscreen Skincare Gel.
Biore is a Japanese skincare brand founded in 1980 and owned by Kao Corporation.
This page compares some of the most popular Biore and Anessa products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Anessa offers the products on this page with High Lovi fit levels across a wide range of skin types, whereas Biore products on this page mostly show Average or lower fit levels for those same types. Both brands list no fragrance in their ingredients.
What is the difference between Biore and Anessa?
Anessa has a high Lovi fit for oily, acne-prone, and combination skin across the products on this page, whereas Biore products on this page generally have an average or lower fit for those skin types. Biore best fits sensitive, dry, and mature skin through its brand-focused routines.
Biore or Anessa: which sunscreen is better?
Anessa offers the better-rated sunscreens on this page, with Perfect UV Sunscreen Skincare Milk and Skincare Gel both achieving High fit levels across oily, combination, acne-prone, and mature skin types. In comparison, Biore UV Aqua Rich achieves a High fit only for combination skin and an Average fit for most other skin types.
Which is more affordable, Biore or Anessa?
The provided page facts do not mention the prices of Biore or Anessa products, so it is not possible to determine which brand is more affordable.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Biore or Anessa?
For acne-prone skin, Anessa products generally achieve a High fit on Lovi, whereas the products on this page by Biore mostly reach an Average fit.
When was Biore founded compared to Anessa?
Biore was founded earlier in 1980, whereas Anessa was founded later in 1992.
Which company owns Biore and which owns Anessa?
Kao Corporation owns Biore, while Shiseido Company, Limited owns Anessa.
Do any products from Biore or Anessa contain fragrance?
Every product on this page from both Biore and Anessa lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
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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.
