Biore and Anessa are Japanese skincare brands known for their thoughtful sunscreens, cleansers, masks, and sophisticated formulas. The first brand is beloved for gentle and clarifying formulations that suit sensitive and oily skin best, featuring standout choices like the UV Aqua Rich and the Makeup Remover Perfect Oil. The second brand is widely loved for advanced sunscreens that suit all skin types best, offering reliable daily protection through options like the Perfect UV Sunscreen Skincare Milk. While both brands work steadily to shield and care for the complexion, they differ in their foundational ingredients and targeted skin suitability.
Biore is a Japanese skincare brand founded in 1980 and owned by Kao Corporation.
This page compares some of the most popular Biore and Anessa products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Anessa is better for broad skin types, as Lovi rates its sunscreens High for oily, combination, mature, and acne-prone skin, while Biore products on this page mostly achieve High or Average fits only selectively.
What is the difference between Biore and Anessa?
Anessa fits sensitive, mature, skin with dark spots, oily, combination, acne-prone, and oily acne-prone skin with a High level in the products on this page, whereas Biore has varying levels up to High for sensitive, oily, and combination skin types. Both brands offer products with no fragrance listed in their ingredients.
Biore or Anessa: which sunscreen is better?
Anessa has a High Lovi fit across almost all skin types for its sunscreens on this page, whereas Biore's UV Aqua Rich sunscreen has a High fit for combination skin and an Average fit for most other skin types.
Which is more affordable, Biore or Anessa?
Neither Biore nor Anessa provides pricing information on this page.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Biore or Anessa?
Anessa sunscreens on this page have a High Lovi fit for acne-prone skin, whereas Biore products on this page generally have an Average fit or lower for acne-prone skin.
When was each brand founded and which companies own them?
Biore was founded in 1980 in Japan and is owned by Kao Corporation. Anessa was founded in 1992 in Japan and is owned by Shiseido Company, Limited.
Do any of the products from Biore or Anessa contain fragrance?
No, every product from both Biore and Anessa on this page lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
Which Biore products are best suited for sensitive skin?
Among the products on this page, Biore Makeup Remover Perfect Oil has a High Lovi fit for sensitive skin, while UV Aqua Rich sunscreen has an Average fit. Other items like the pore strips and charcoal cleanser have a Low fit for sensitive skin.
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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.
