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The Ordinary vs Carotone

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The Ordinary and Carotone are distinct skincare options built around targeted serums and carefully crafted formulas. The Canadian brand offers serums, moisturizers, cleansers, toners, and more, featuring hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane, while the latter is loved for its Brightening Cream. Both brands suit dry skin, though the former also fits dry sensitive skin, acne-prone skin, skin with dark spots, and mature skin, and the latter additionally suits normal and combination skin. They differ primarily in their key ingredients and specific product offerings designed for varied complexions.

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 Carotone products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Popular The Ordinary vs Carotone products

The Ordinary vs Carotone serums and treatments

Questions and answers

The Ordinary or Carotone: which is better?

The products on this page from The Ordinary offer a much wider variety of targeted serums and moisturizers, whereas Carotone features only a single brightening cream.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and Carotone?

The Ordinary offers a large variety of targeted serums, toners, and moisturizers that fit dry and combination skin best, whereas Carotone features a single brightening cream with average fit levels across all skin types.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or Carotone?

The products on this page for The Ordinary are often noted by reviewers as affordable and offering great value. Carotone does not have enough pricing feedback on this page to make a direct comparison.

When were The Ordinary and Carotone founded?

The Ordinary was founded in 2016 in Canada, while Carotone was founded in 2009.

Which company owns The Ordinary?

The Ordinary is owned by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

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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