Biore and Anessa are Japanese skincare brands known for their advanced sunscreens and sophisticated formulas. Biore offers cleansers, masks, and makeup removers, while Anessa focuses on sun protection. The former suits sensitive and combination skin best with gentle ingredients, whereas the latter suits all skin types with reliable daily defense. They differ primarily in their product ranges and target skin preferences, though both deliver thoughtful care.
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 on this page, as its sunscreens achieve High Lovi fit across oily, combination, mature, and acne-prone skin. Biore also works well for specific concerns, with High Lovi fit for sensitive skin using its makeup remover and combination skin using its sunscreen.
What is the difference between Biore and Anessa?
Biore and Anessa are both Japanese skincare brands owned by large parent companies, but Anessa focuses on high-fitting sunscreens across almost all skin types, while Biore offers a wider variety of products like cleansers, pore strips, makeup removers, and sunscreens with more varied fit levels depending on the specific product and skin type.
Biore or Anessa: which sunscreen is better?
Anessa offers the better-rated sunscreens on this page, with its Perfect UV Sunscreen Skincare Milk and Gel achieving a High fit for oily, combination, mature, and acne-prone skin. Biore UV Aqua Rich achieves only a High fit for combination skin and an Average fit for most other skin types, while being rated Caution for dry skin.
Which is more affordable, Biore or Anessa?
Neither Biore nor Anessa provides price information on this page.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Biore or Anessa?
Anessa offers products on this page that may cause fewer breakouts, as its sunscreens achieve a High fit level for acne-prone and oily acne-prone skin, whereas Biore rates only Average for those skin types.
When were Biore and Anessa founded and which companies own them?
Biore was founded in 1980 in Japan and is owned by Kao Corporation, while Anessa was founded in 1992 in Japan and is owned by Shiseido Company, Limited.
Do Biore and Anessa products contain fragrance?
No, every product on this page from both Biore and Anessa lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
Which brand has a wider variety of product types featured on the page?
Biore has a wider variety of product types featured on the products on this page, offering cleansers, masks, makeup removers, and sunscreens, while Anessa only features sunscreens.
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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.
