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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 Ordinary offers a much wider selection of skincare products on this page than AlumierMD, making it easier to build a complete routine. Lovi finds that the products on this page are fragrance-free and feature key ingredients like hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane.

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What is the difference between The Ordinary and AlumierMD?

The Ordinary offers a large range of fragrance-free skincare products on this page suited best for dry, dry sensitive, and combination skin, whereas AlumierMD is represented by a single serum.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or AlumierMD?

The Ordinary provides affordable and great value serums among the products on this page, whereas AlumierMD does not highlight pricing or affordability details.

When was The Ordinary founded and who is its parent company?

The Ordinary was founded in 2016 in Canada. The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. has owned the brand since 2021.

Which skin types does The Ordinary fit best according to its brand-focused routines?

The products on this page for The Ordinary fit dry skin, dry sensitive skin, and combination skin best according to its brand-focused routines.

Do products from The Ordinary and AlumierMD contain fragrance?

Every product on this page for both The Ordinary and AlumierMD 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.

How does it fit your skin?

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