SK-II and Taro are distinct skincare brands designed for modern routines. SK-II is a Japanese brand founded in 1980 and owned by The Procter & Gamble Company since 1991, known for luxurious moisturizers, potent serums, rejuvenating masks, clarifying toners, and other meticulously crafted formulas powered by its signature ingredient, pitera. Taro is warmly embraced for its targeted serums and carefully crafted formulas, offering reliable daily care. While the first brand suits combination, oily, normal, and dry skin best, the second suits sensitive, dry, and combination skin best.
SK-II is a Japanese skincare brand founded in 1980 and owned by The Procter & Gamble Company since 1991.
This page compares some of the most popular SK-II and Taro products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
SK-II has a High Lovi fit for many skin types across the products on this page, whereas Taro features Tretinoin Cream which helps with combination and acne-prone skin.
SK-II offers a broad range of products featuring Pitera, such as the Facial Treatment Essence which achieves a High fit across many skin types, while Taro provides a single product, Tretinoin Cream, which helps acne-prone and combination skin at a High fit level.
The provided page facts do not contain pricing information, so it is not possible to compare the affordability of SK-II and Taro.
Which causes fewer breakouts, SK-II or Taro?
Both SK-II and Taro offer products on this page that help with acne-prone skin, such as the Genoptics Ultraura Essence and Tretinoin Cream which have a High or Superior fit level according to Lovi.
When were SK-II and Taro founded and who owns them?
SK-II was founded in Japan in 1980 and has been owned by The Procter & Gamble Company since 1991, while Taro was founded in 1950 and has been owned by Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited since 2010.
Do SK-II and Taro products contain fragrance?
Every product on this page for both SK-II and Taro lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
What is the key ingredient used across SK-II products?
The key ingredient across the products on this page for SK-II is Pitera.
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.
