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Simple vs Taro

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Simple and Taro are established skincare lines offering thoughtful daily care for modern routines. The British brand is known for gentle moisturizers, makeup removers, cleansers, and toners featuring niacinamide and glycerin, which suit oily and acne-prone skin best. Meanwhile, Taro is warmly embraced for targeted serums and carefully crafted formulas that suit sensitive, dry, and combination skin best. They differ primarily in their standout formulations, as the former relies on glycerin and niacinamide for hydration and hyperpigmentation, while the latter features specialized options like the Tretinoin Cream.

Simple is a British skincare brand founded in 1960 and owned by Unilever PLC since 2011.

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

Popular Simple vs Taro products

Questions and answers

Simple or Taro: which is better?

Simple is a better choice for everyday hydration and gentle makeup removal, featuring fragrance-free options like the Kind to Skin Soothing Facial Toner that Lovi rates High for sensitive skin. Niacinamide in Simple products also helps reduce skin pigmentation. On the other hand, Taro offers Tretinoin Cream, which may help restore collagen formation in photodamaged skin.

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What is the difference between Simple and Taro?

Simple offers a broad range of fragrance-free cleansers, toners, and moisturizers featuring niacinamide and glycerin that fit sensitive and oily skin well, whereas Taro offers a single tretinoin cream that has a high fit for acne-prone and combination skin.

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Which is more affordable, Simple or Taro?

Simple offers lightweight, value-friendly moisturizers on this page.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or Taro?

Simple may cause fewer breakouts for some shoppers, as reviewers often mention that the products on this page cause breakouts or irritations. Taro offers Tretinoin Cream, which has a High Lovi fit for acne-prone skin.

Which brand was founded earlier, Simple or Taro?

Taro was founded earlier in 1950, while Simple was founded in 1960.

How do the skin type fit levels compare between Simple's Micellar Cleansing Water and Taro's Tretinoin Cream for sensitive skin?

Simple's Micellar Cleansing Water has a High fit level for sensitive skin, whereas Taro's Tretinoin Cream has a Low fit level for sensitive skin.

What are the key ingredients found across Simple products?

Simple features key ingredients such as niacinamide and glycerin across the products on this page. Niacinamide helps reduce cutaneous pigmentation, while glycerin supports skin hydration.

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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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