Benefit The POREfessional Pore Primer vs Tatcha The Silk Canvas Protective Primer

Two primers, compared on what the catalogue records about each.

Which should you buy? Tatcha The Silk Canvas Protective Primer costs about $23 more. Pick Benefit The POREfessional Pore Primer for controlling shine, oily skin, combination skin. Pick Tatcha The Silk Canvas Protective Primer for dry skin, normal skin, fine lines.

Benefit

The POREfessional Pore Primer

A silicone balm that fills and blurs enlarged pores rather than covering them. Best used only where you need it, around the nose and centre of the cheeks.

Worth knowing. Silicone heavy. If your skin gets congested easily, keep it off the areas that break out.

0.75 oz, around $35. Blurring pores and texture, Controlling shine, Oily skin, Combination skin

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Tatcha

The Silk Canvas Protective Primer

A balm-to-silk primer that smooths without the plasticky feel of a heavy silicone. Comfortable on dry and mature skin, which most blurring primers are not.

Worth knowing. Expensive for a primer. Worth it only if silicone primers cling to your dry patches.

1 oz, around $58. Blurring pores and texture, Dry skin, Normal skin, Fine lines

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Side by side

  Benefit The POREfessional Pore Primer
0.75 oz, around $35
Tatcha The Silk Canvas Protective Primer
1 oz, around $58
Pricearound $35around $58
Size0.75 oz1 oz
Suited toBlurring pores and texture, Controlling shine, Oily skin, Combination skin, Textured hairBlurring pores and texture, Dry skin, Normal skin, Fine lines, Textured hair
Only this oneControlling shine, Oily skin, Combination skinDry skin, Normal skin, Fine lines

What they share

Both are primers suited to blurring pores and texture, textured hair, a splurge.

Questions people also ask

What is the difference between Benefit The POREfessional Pore Primer and Tatcha The Silk Canvas Protective Primer?

Tatcha The Silk Canvas Protective Primer costs about $23 more. Pick Benefit The POREfessional Pore Primer for controlling shine, oily skin, combination skin. Pick Tatcha The Silk Canvas Protective Primer for dry skin, normal skin, fine lines.

Which is cheaper, Benefit The POREfessional Pore Primer or Tatcha The Silk Canvas Protective Primer?

Benefit The POREfessional Pore Primer, at around $35 for 0.75 oz, against around $58 for 1 oz. Retail prices move, so check the retailer.

What do Benefit The POREfessional Pore Primer and Tatcha The Silk Canvas Protective Primer have in common?

Both are primers suited to blurring pores and texture, textured hair, a splurge.

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