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The Ordinary vs Hanhoo

The Ordinary and Hanhoo are accessible skincare options offering distinct approaches to daily care. The Canadian brand focuses on diverse formulations built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane, while the latter is widely loved for targeted serums and carefully balanced formulas. Both options suit dry skin and dry sensitive skin best, though the former also provides specialized solutions for acne-prone, dark spot, and mature skin. Ultimately, the two differ in their product scope, with the former providing broad serums, moisturizers, and cleansers, and the latter featuring standout options like its blemish and pore patches.

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 Hanhoo 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 Hanhoo: which is better?

The Ordinary offers a much wider range of targeted skincare products on this page than Hanhoo, which features only patch treatments. The products on this page are fragrance-free and feature key ingredients like hyaluronic acid, which helps improve skin hydration.

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What is the difference between The Ordinary and Hanhoo?

The Ordinary offers a large range of fragrance-free serums, toners, and moisturizers that fit dry and sensitive skin best, while Hanhoo features only two spot patches on this page. The Ordinary products on this page have zero added fragrance.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or Hanhoo?

The products on this page from The Ordinary are frequently described by reviewers as affordable and offering great value, whereas the page for Hanhoo lacks such mentions.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The Ordinary or Hanhoo?

The products on this page from The Ordinary include acne-clearing serums and treatments with High or Superior Lovi fit levels for acne-prone skin, while Hanhoo offers blemish patches that also have a High fit level for acne-prone skin.

Which brand has been around longer, The Ordinary or Hanhoo?

Hanhoo has been around longer, having been founded in 2008 compared to The Ordinary, which was founded in 2016.

Do products from The Ordinary and Hanhoo contain fragrance?

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

How many skincare products are listed for Hanhoo compared to The Ordinary?

The products on this page show that Hanhoo lists two skincare products, whereas The Ordinary features a much larger selection of thirty-three different products.

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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