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The Ordinary vs AlumierMD

The Ordinary and AlumierMD are Canadian skincare brands founded in 2016. The Ordinary offers serums, moisturizers, cleansers, toners, and more, built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane, making it best for dry skin and dry sensitive skin. Meanwhile, AlumierMD is beloved for its advanced serums and scientifically backed formulas, suiting sensitive, aging, and hyperpigmented skin best. While both brands share a Canadian origin and launch year, they differ in their product ranges and target formulations.

The Ordinary is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2016 and owned by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. since 2021.

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AlumierMD is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2016 and owned by Alumier Group Holdings Limited / Alumier Labs Inc..

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

Questions and answers

The Ordinary or AlumierMD: which is better?

The products on this page show that The Ordinary offers a much wider variety of skincare options across different skin types compared to AlumierMD, which currently features only a single product here. Reviewers frequently praise The Ordinary for being affordable and effective, with formulas that help smooth texture and clear acne.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and AlumierMD?

The Ordinary offers a large range of fragrance-free skincare products on this page with High to Superior Lovi fit levels for dry, sensitive, and acne-prone skin, whereas AlumierMD features only a single brightening serum.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or AlumierMD?

The products on this page for The Ordinary include affordable and great value serums among their praised benefits, whereas no pricing or affordability details are mentioned for AlumierMD on this page.

When were The Ordinary and AlumierMD founded, and where are they based?

Both The Ordinary and AlumierMD were founded in Canada in 2016.

Do any products from The Ordinary or AlumierMD contain fragrance?

Every product on the products on this page from both The Ordinary and AlumierMD lists no fragrance in its ingredients.

How does the Lovi fit level for Bright & Clear Solution compare across different skin types?

On the products on this page, the Lovi fit level for Bright & Clear Solution is High for oily skin, oily acne-prone skin, skin with dark spots, mature skin, sensitive skin, combination skin, and acne-prone skin, while it is Average for dry skin and Low for dry sensitive skin.

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.

How does it fit your skin?

Scan your face, then any product: Lovi shows how well it fits you and what fits even better.