Biore and Sesderma are trusted skincare brands that offer gentle and advanced formulations for daily routines. The Japanese brand is known for its sunscreens, cleansers, masks, and makeup removers, while the Spanish brand is beloved for its advanced serums and meticulously engineered formulas. Both brands suit sensitive skin best, with the first also serving dry skin, and the second additionally addressing hyperpigmented and aging skin. They differ primarily in their origins and product focus, with the first providing balanced everyday essentials and the latter specializing in targeted active compounds.
Biore is a Japanese skincare brand founded in 1980 and owned by Kao Corporation.
This page compares some of the most popular Biore and Sesderma products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Biore is better for sensitive and dry skin, where Lovi rates its Makeup Remover Perfect Oil as High and lists it among the brand's best-fit types, whereas Sesderma's Azelac RU Serum gets a Low fit for dry skin. Sesderma's Azelac RU Serum is better for acne-prone skin and skin with dark spots, with a High Lovi fit for both.
What is the difference between Biore and Sesderma?
Biore products on this page list no fragrance and feature a High Lovi fit for combination and sensitive skin, whereas Sesderma includes fragrance in its serum and gives a High Lovi fit for acne-prone skin, dark spots, and combination skin.
Which is more affordable, Biore or Sesderma?
Neither Biore nor Sesderma is stated as more affordable, as pricing details are not available on this page.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Biore or Sesderma?
Biore and Sesderma both have products on this page that help with breakouts, but Sesderma's Azelac RU Serum has a High fit for acne-prone skin while Biore's products on this page only reach an Average fit.
Which brand offers a sunscreen, Biore or Sesderma?
Biore offers a sunscreen on this page, the UV Aqua Rich, while Sesderma does not feature one. Lovi rates this Biore sunscreen as a High fit for combination skin and Average for several other skin types.
How does the fragrance content differ between Biore and Sesderma products listed on the page?
Every Biore product on this page lists no fragrance in its ingredients, whereas the single Sesderma product listed, Azelac RU Serum, contains fragrance.
Which brand has been around longer and in which country was it founded?
Biore has been around longer, having been founded in Japan in 1980, whereas Sesderma was founded in Spain in 1989.
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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.
