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The Ordinary vs Taro

The Ordinary and Taro are accessible skincare brands offering daily care for modern routines through carefully crafted formulas. The Ordinary is known for serums, moisturizers, cleansers, toners, and more built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane, while Taro is warmly embraced for its targeted serums. Both brands suit dry skin and dry sensitive skin best, though the latter also suits combination skin, and their standout products address acne, dark spots, and mature skin. They differ primarily in ownership and origin, as the Canadian brand founded in 2016 is owned by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. since 2021.

The Ordinary is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2016 and owned by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. since 2021.

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

Questions and answers

The Ordinary or Taro: which is better?

The Ordinary offers a much wider range of products that Lovi rates as a High or Superior fit for dry, sensitive, and combination skin, while Taro features only a single cream. Tretinoin helps restore collagen formation in photodamaged human skin.

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What is the difference between The Ordinary and Taro?

The Ordinary offers a large range of fragrance-free skincare products on this page that fit dry and combination skin best, whereas Taro features just one product, Tretinoin Cream, which may help with combination and acne-prone skin.

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Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or Taro?

The Ordinary offers affordable and great value serums on the products on this page, whereas Taro features a specialized medical-grade option without a focus on affordability.

How do the skin type fit levels differ between The Ordinary and Taro for combination skin?

For combination skin, the products on this page from The Ordinary achieve fit levels ranging from Low to Superior, while Taro features a High fit level for its Tretinoin Cream.

Which brand was founded earlier, The Ordinary or Taro?

Taro was founded earlier in 1950, while The Ordinary was founded later in 2016.

Do any products from either The Ordinary or Taro contain fragrance?

Every product on this page from both The Ordinary and Taro lists no fragrance in its ingredients.

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?

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