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Dermalogica vs Taro

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Dermalogica and Taro are distinguished skincare brands that offer targeted serums, nourishing moisturizers, gentle cleansers, purifying masks, and carefully crafted formulas. The American skincare brand founded in 1986 and owned by Unilever since 2015 is known for star ingredients like hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and salicylic acid, while the latter is warmly embraced for its reliable daily care. Both suit dry skin best, though the former also suits oily acne-prone skin, and the latter additionally suits sensitive and combination skin. They differ in their specific formulations, with the former featuring products like Daily Microfoliant, Precleanse, and Phyto Nature Lifting Eye Cream, and the latter featuring standout solutions such as Tretinoin Cream.

Dermalogica is an American skincare brand founded in 1986 and owned by Unilever since 2015.

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

Popular Dermalogica vs Taro products

Dermalogica vs Taro serums and treatments

Questions and answers

Dermalogica or Taro: which is better?

Dermalogica offers a wide range of fragrance-free cleansers, exfoliants, and moisturizers that fit dry and combination skin with high ratings. Taro features a single topical treatment, Tretinoin Cream, which is rated high for acne-prone and combination skin.

What is the difference between Dermalogica and Taro?

Dermalogica offers a wide range of fragrance-free cleansers, moisturizers, and treatments that fit dry, oily acne-prone, and combination skin best, while Taro features a single product on this page, Tretinoin Cream, which is aimed at combination and acne-prone skin.

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Which is more affordable, Dermalogica or Taro?

Reviewers note that Dermalogica products have a high price point. The page facts do not mention the price of Taro products.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Dermalogica or Taro?

Dermalogica offers a wide range of products with high fit levels for acne-prone skin, whereas Taro features just one prescription-strength treatment, Tretinoin Cream, which is known to cause initial purging or breakouts.

The New England Journal of Medicine, 1993

How do the founding years and corporate ownerships of Dermalogica and Taro compare?

Dermalogica was founded in the United States in 1986 and has been owned by Unilever since 2015, whereas Taro was founded in 1950 and is owned by Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited since 2010.

Which brand offers a wider range of products for dry skin, and what are their fit levels?

Dermalogica offers a much wider range of products for dry skin, with fit levels ranging from Superior to Average, and a few Cautions. For example, the Stabilizing Repair Cream and Circular Hydration Serum have a Superior fit, while most other moisturizers and cleansers have High or Average fits on the products on this page.

What key ingredients are found across the products of Dermalogica and Taro?

Dermalogica features key ingredients across its products such as hyaluronic acid, glycerin, salicylic acid, oat, vitamin E, and lactic acid, while Taro's ingredient list is not detailed on this page beyond its tretinoin cream.

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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.

  • 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. Sofía Perea Pérez, MD, MSc

    Dr. Sofía Perea Pérez, 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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