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Taro vs Blume

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Taro and Blume are two skincare lines valued for their thoughtful formulas and reliable daily care. Taro offers targeted serums suited best for sensitive, dry, and combination skin, with standout options like the Tretinoin Cream for acne-prone skin. Meanwhile, the Canadian brand Blume is known for its nourishing moisturizers that suit sensitive, acne-prone, and dry skin best, featuring standout products like the Meltdown Gel Cream. While both brands support a balanced and healthy complexion, they differ in their core product types and specific formulation focuses.

Blume is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2018.

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

Popular Taro vs Blume products

Questions and answers

Taro or Blume: which is better?

Blume has a high Lovi fit across acne-prone, sensitive, and dry skin types with its Meltdown Gel Cream, whereas Taro achieves a high fit only for combination and acne-prone skin with its Tretinoin Cream. Tretinoin helps restore collagen formation in photodamaged skin.

The New England Journal of Medicine, 1993

What is the difference between Taro and Blume?

Blume has a High Lovi fit for dry, sensitive, and oily skin with its Meltdown Gel Cream, whereas Taro's Tretinoin Cream has a High fit for combination and acne-prone skin. Both brands offer products on this page that list no fragrance in their ingredients.

The New England Journal of Medicine, 1993

Which is more affordable, Taro or Blume?

This page does not provide pricing or affordability information for either Taro or Blume.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Taro or Blume?

Blume has a High Lovi fit for acne-prone skin with Meltdown Gel Cream, whereas Taro has a High fit for acne-prone skin with Tretinoin Cream. Both brands offer products on this page that are fragrance-free.

The New England Journal of Medicine, 1993Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology, 2020

When were Taro and Blume founded?

Taro was founded in 1950, and Blume was founded in 2018 in Canada.

Do Taro and Blume products contain fragrance?

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

Which company owns Taro?

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited has owned Taro since 2010.

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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