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The Ordinary vs FRE

The Ordinary and FRE are two skincare lines built around distinct targeted formulas and nourishing ingredients. The Canadian brand offers serums, moisturizers, cleansers, toners, and more, featuring hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane to fit dry skin and dry sensitive skin best. Meanwhile, FRE is widely loved for its targeted product types and nourishing formulas that suit acne-prone skin best, owing to their gentle and effective compositions. These thoughtful formulations work to gently balance and support the complexion while differing in their core ingredient approaches.

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

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This page compares some of the most popular The Ordinary and FRE 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 FRE: which is better?

The products on this page from The Ordinary offer a much wider variety of budget-friendly choices and generally achieve a High or Superior Lovi fit for dry, sensitive, and dry sensitive skin types, whereas FRE features only a single Argan Oil product on this page with an Average or High fit for those same skin types.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and FRE?

The Ordinary offers a much larger variety of products on this page than FRE, which features only a single argan oil product. The products on this page from The Ordinary provide fragrance-free formulas with high fits for dry and sensitive skin types.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or FRE?

The Ordinary is more affordable, offering affordable and great value serums among the products on this page.

How do the skin type fit levels compare between The Ordinary and FRE products?

The products on this page for The Ordinary offer High fit levels for dry, dry sensitive, and sensitive skin types, whereas FRE only features a single Argan Oil product that has a High fit level specifically for dry sensitive skin.

What are the founding years and ownership details for The Ordinary and FRE?

The Ordinary was founded in 2016 in Canada and has been owned by The Est3 Lauder Companies Inc. since 2021, while FRE was also founded in 2016 and remains independently owned.

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?

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