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The Ordinary vs Sand & Sky

The Ordinary and Sand & Sky are skincare lines with distinct botanical and clinical approaches. The Ordinary offers serums, moisturizers, cleansers, toners, and more built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane, whereas Sand & Sky is beloved for its purifying masks and targeted formulas. The former brand's products fit dry skin and dry sensitive skin best, while the latter brand's products suit combination, oily, and acne-prone skin best. Ultimately, they differ in their key ingredients, ranging from hydration-boosting molecules to gently clarifying botanicals.

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 Sand & Sky 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 Sand & Sky: which is better?

The Ordinary is a better choice for shoppers seeking fragrance-free formulas across all products on this page, whereas the Sand & Sky mask contains fragrance. Lovi rates The Ordinary as a High fit for dry skin, dry sensitive skin, and sensitive skin.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and Sand & Sky?

The products on this page for The Ordinary fit dry, dry sensitive, and sensitive skin best and list no fragrance, whereas Sand & Sky offers only one mask on this page, which includes fragrance. The Ordinary features a wide range of serums and treatments with affordable options and high fit levels across multiple skin types, while Sand & Sky focuses on targeted clay treatments.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or Sand & Sky?

The products on this page for The Ordinary include affordable and great value serums among their praised benefits, while Sand & Sky has no such affordability mentions on this page.

Between The Ordinary and Sand & Sky, which brand offers products containing fragrance?

Sand & Sky offers products containing fragrance, whereas every product on The Ordinary page lists no fragrance in its ingredients.

Which brand has been owned by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. since 2021?

The Ordinary has been owned by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. since 2021.

How many total products are featured on the comparison page for Sand & Sky compared to The Ordinary?

The products on this page include only one item from Sand & Sky compared to thirty-three items from The Ordinary.

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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