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Kiehl's vs Taro

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Kiehl's and Taro are skincare brands that offer nourishing moisturizers, targeted serums, soothing toners, gentle eye products, and other formulations. The American brand is loved for its glycerin and squalane ingredients which suit dry and mature skin best, while the latter is warmly embraced for its careful formulas that suit sensitive, dry, and combination skin. Although both provide reliable daily care, they differ in their specific standout products and the particular skin concerns they address.

Kiehl's is an American skincare brand founded in 1851 and owned by L'Oréal S.A. since 2000.

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

Popular Kiehl's vs Taro products

Kiehl's vs Taro serums and treatments

Questions and answers

Kiehl's or Taro: which is better?

Kiehl's offers a wide range of lightweight moisturizers, gentle serums, and toners that fit dry, mature, and oily acne-prone skin best, while Taro features just one specialized acne serum, Tretinoin Cream. Topical tretinoin helps restore collagen formation in photodamaged human skin.

The New England Journal of Medicine, 1993

What is the difference between Kiehl's and Taro?

Kiehl's offers a wide range of skincare products on this page spanning cleansers, toners, serums, and moisturizers that fit best for dry skin, mature skin, and oily acne-prone skin, whereas Taro features a single specialized product, Tretinoin Cream, which has a High fit for combination and acne-prone skin.

Which is more affordable, Kiehl's or Taro?

The products on this page do not provide pricing information to determine whether Kiehl's or Taro is more affordable.

Which causes fewer breakouts, Kiehl's or Taro?

Taro features Tretinoin Cream, which Lovi rates as having a High fit for acne-prone skin. Meanwhile, Kiehl's offers multiple products on this page with High fits for acne-prone skin, but reviewers often mention that Kiehl's products may cause breakouts and skin irritation.

Which brand has been owned by its parent company for a longer period of time, Kiehl's or Taro?

Kiehl's has been owned by its parent company since 2000, while Taro has been owned by its parent company since 2010. Therefore, Kiehl's has been owned by its parent company for a longer period of time.

How many products contain fragrance in Kiehl's skincare compared to Taro?

In Kiehl's skincare, 2 of the 28 products on this page list fragrance, while Taro has no products on this page listing fragrance.

Which Kiehl's products achieve a Superior Lovi fit level for oily acne-prone skin?

For oily acne-prone skin, the products on this page by Kiehl's that achieve a Superior Lovi fit level include the Calendula Deep Cleansing Foaming Face Wash, Calendula Herbal-Extract Toner, Ultra Facial Oil-Free Cleanser, and Rare Earth Deep Pore Daily Cleanser.

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. 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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