Allies of Skin vs Taro
Allies of Skin and Taro are skincare lines that offer targeted daily care. Allies of Skin is loved for its luxurious moisturizers, potent serums, and targeted eye products formulated with powerhouse ingredients like niacinamide, suiting dry and acne-prone skin best. Meanwhile, Taro is warmly embraced for its targeted serums and carefully crafted formulas, suiting sensitive, dry, and combination skin best. The main difference lies in their specific formulations, with both brands providing reliable daily care for modern routines.
This page compares some of the most popular Allies of Skin and Taro products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Popular Allies of Skin vs Taro products
Questions and answers
Allies of Skin or Taro: which is better?
Allies of Skin is generally better for dry, acne-prone, and dry sensitive skin, offering a wider range of products with High and Superior Lovi fit levels across multiple skin types. Taro features just one product, Tretinoin Cream, which has a High fit for combination and acne-prone skin but low fit levels for dry, sensitive, and skin with dark spots.
What is the difference between Allies of Skin and Taro?
Allies of Skin offers a wide range of fragrance-free serums, moisturizers, and eye creams featuring ingredients like niacinamide and probiotics that help hydrate the skin and reduce dark spots, whereas Taro features just one fragrance-free Tretinoin Cream serum that helps restore collagen in photodamaged skin.
The British Journal of Dermatology, 2002International Journal of Medical Sciences, 2021
Which is more affordable, Allies of Skin or Taro?
The provided page facts do not mention the price of Taro products, but reviewers note that Allies of Skin has a high price point.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Allies of Skin or Taro?
Allies of Skin fits acne-prone skin with High or Superior Lovi levels across several products on this page, whereas Taro's Tretinoin Cream has an Average fit for oily acne-prone skin.
Which brand has more products listed on the comparison page, Allies of Skin or Taro?
Allies of Skin has more products listed on the comparison page than Taro, offering six different skincare items compared to Taro's single product.
Do any products from Allies of Skin or Taro contain fragrance?
Every product on this page from both Allies of Skin and Taro lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
How does the founding year of Allies of Skin compare to that of Taro?
Allies of Skin was founded in 2016, whereas Taro was founded earlier in 1950.
Research behind their key ingredients
The effect of niacinamide on reducing cutaneous pigmentation and suppression of melanosome transfer
Restoration of collagen formation in photodamaged human skin by tretinoin (retinoic acid)
Topical tretinoin for treating photoaging: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials
A comparative study of gluconolactone versus benzoyl peroxide in the treatment of acne
Supramolecular collagen nanoparticles for anti-wrinkle, skin whitening, and moisturizing effects
Clinical efficacy of facial masks containing yoghurt and Opuntia humifusa Raf. (F-YOP)
Targeting Circadian Rhythm for the Regulation of Skin Collagen Metabolism
Effects of a Greek Yoghurt-based Complex on the Human Facial Skin Microbiome
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.
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Co-founder, Medical Director
Cosmetic chemist, cosmetologist, aesthetic products developer
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Co-founder, CEO and CTO
PhD in computer science, 3x US patent holder, ex-Google, ex-Yandex
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Dr. Sofía Perea Pérez, MD, MSc
Medical Board
Aesthetic medicine practitioner, MSc in Longevity and Anti-Aging Medicine
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Medical Board
Specialist dermatologist, MBBS, MD, IFAAD
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Medical Board
Cosmetic chemist, SCS, IFSCC member
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Medical Board, Medical Advisor
Dermatology MD
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Elina Nazarenko, MD
Medical Board
Dermatology and diagnostic consultant
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Victoria Derkova, MS
Medical Board
Cosmetic chemist, cosmetic development technologist
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