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The Ordinary vs Skinfix

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The Ordinary and Skinfix are Canadian skincare brands celebrated for their distinct approaches to complexion care. The Ordinary offers targeted serums, moisturizers, and cleansers built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane, while the brand is beloved for deeply nourishing moisturizers and scientifically targeted formulas. Both brands suit dry and sensitive skin best, though the former excels in ingredient-specific treatments for acne, dark spots, and aging, whereas the latter provides reliable barrier restoration.

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

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Skinfix is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2014 and owned by Skinfix Inc..

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

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The Ordinary vs Skinfix moisturizers

Questions and answers

The Ordinary or Skinfix: which is better?

The Ordinary offers a much larger selection of products on this page across multiple categories like cleansers, toners, and specialized serums, whereas Skinfix features only a single moisturizer. Lovi shows that The Ordinary fits best for dry, dry sensitive, and sensitive skin types through dedicated routines.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and Skinfix?

The Ordinary offers a large range of fragrance-free products on this page spanning cleansers, toners, serums, and moisturizers, whereas Skinfix features just a single moisturizer, the Barrier+ Triple Lipid-Peptide Cream. According to Lovi fit levels, The Ordinary fits dry skin, dry sensitive skin, and sensitive skin best, while Skinfix also provides high fit for dry and sensitive skin types.

The Ordinary or Skinfix: which moisturizer is better?

When comparing moisturizers, both The Ordinary and Skinfix offer strong options for dry skin with a High Lovi fit level, such as The Ordinary Natural Moisturizing Factors + HA and the Skinfix Barrier+ Triple Lipid-Peptide Cream. The products on this page for both brands contain no fragrance.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or Skinfix?

The products on this page from The Ordinary include affordable and great value serums, whereas Skinfix only features a single high-priced barrier cream.

When were The Ordinary and Skinfix founded and where?

The Ordinary was founded in Canada in 2016, and Skinfix was founded in Canada in 2014.

Do products from The Ordinary and Skinfix contain fragrance?

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

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.

  • Nadia Kapleva, MS

    Nadia Kapleva, MS

    Co-founder, Medical Director

    Cosmetic chemist, cosmetologist, aesthetic products developer

  • Alexey Shagraev, PhD

    Alexey Shagraev, PhD

    Co-founder, CEO and CTO

    PhD in computer science, 3x US patent holder, ex-Google, ex-Yandex

  • Dr. Sofía Perea Pérez, MD, MSc

    Dr. Sofía Perea Pérez, MD, MSc

    Medical Board

    Aesthetic medicine practitioner, MSc in Longevity and Anti-Aging Medicine

  • Aishani Shah, MD

    Aishani Shah, MD

    Medical Board

    Specialist dermatologist, MBBS, MD, IFAAD

  • Asya Zubkova, MS

    Asya Zubkova, MS

    Medical Board

    Cosmetic chemist, SCS, IFSCC member

  • Hanna Kurets, MD

    Hanna Kurets, MD

    Medical Board, Medical Advisor

    Dermatology MD

  • Elina Nazarenko, MD

    Elina Nazarenko, MD

    Medical Board

    Dermatology and diagnostic consultant

  • Victoria Derkova, MS

    Victoria Derkova, MS

    Medical Board

    Cosmetic chemist, cosmetic development technologist

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