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Taro vs Sand & Sky

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Taro and Sand & Sky are skincare collections known for their targeted formulas. Taro offers carefully crafted formulas and targeted serums featuring standout items like Tretinoin Cream, best suiting sensitive, dry, and combination skin. Conversely, Sand & Sky is celebrated for its purifying masks and targeted formulas, including the Australian Pink Clay Porefining Face Mask, which best suits combination, oily, and acne-prone skin. While the first brand provides reliable daily care for modern routines, the second utilizes botanical ingredients to gently clarify and balance the complexion.

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

Popular Taro vs Sand & Sky products

Questions and answers

Taro or Sand & Sky: which is better?

Taro gets a High Lovi fit for acne-prone skin with its fragrance-free Tretinoin Cream, whereas Sand & Sky achieves a High fit for acne-prone and oily skin types using its Australian Pink Clay Porefining Face Mask, which contains fragrance.

The New England Journal of Medicine, 1993Archives of Dermatological Research, 2022

What is the difference between Taro and Sand & Sky?

Taro has a high Lovi fit for combination and acne-prone skin, while Sand & Sky also rates high for oily and combination skin but includes fragrance. Taro lists no fragrance in any products on this page.

Which is more affordable, Taro or Sand & Sky?

Neither Taro nor Sand & Sky has pricing information listed on this page, so affordability cannot be compared.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Taro or Sand & Sky?

Both Taro and Sand & Sky achieve a High fit on acne-prone skin and oily acne-prone skin according to Lovi. Taro uses Tretinoin, which helps treat acne, while Sand & Sky uses Bentonite and Australian pink clay.

Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology, 2020Archives of Dermatological Research, 2022

Which brand includes fragrance in its products, Taro or Sand & Sky?

Sand & Sky includes fragrance in the products on this page, whereas every Taro product on this page lists no fragrance in its ingredients.

When were Taro and Sand & Sky founded?

Taro was founded in 1950, while Sand & Sky was founded more recently in 2017.

Who currently owns Taro and Sand & Sky?

Taro is owned by Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, while Sand & Sky is owned by Excite Foundry Ltd.

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. Sof铆a Perea P茅rez, MD, MSc

    Dr. Sof铆a Perea P茅rez, 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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