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The Ordinary vs facefacts

The Ordinary and facefacts are skincare brands that offer accessible daily essentials for diverse complexions. The Canadian brand centers its serums, moisturizers, cleansers, and toners on hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane, while the British brand is loved for nourishing cleansers and targeted formulas. The former suits dry and dry sensitive skin best, whereas the latter suits dry, normal, and combination skin. Both brands differ in their specific formulations, though each maintains skin hydration and balance.

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

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facefacts is a British skincare brand founded in 2019 and owned by Brand Masters B.V. since 2026.

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This page compares some of the most popular The Ordinary and facefacts 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 facefacts: which is better?

The Ordinary offers a much larger variety of products on this page than facefacts, giving it High fit levels for dry and sensitive skin. Lovi rates the products on this page as having a High fit for dry and sensitive skin.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and facefacts?

The Ordinary offers a large selection of serums, cleansers, and treatments on this page that fit dry skin, dry sensitive skin, and combination skin best, while facefacts features just a single cleanser. Both brands feature no fragrance in the products on this page.

The Ordinary or facefacts: which cleanser is better?

The Ordinary offers a wider selection of cleansers on this page, with the Glycolipid Cream Cleanser achieving a superior Lovi fit level for dry skin compared to facefacts.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or facefacts?

The Ordinary offers affordable and great value serums among the products on this page, while facefacts features only one cleanser.

Between The Ordinary and facefacts, which brand was founded earlier and in which country?

The Ordinary was founded earlier in 2016 in Canada, whereas facefacts was founded in 2019 in the United Kingdom.

Do products from The Ordinary or facefacts contain fragrance in their ingredients?

Both The Ordinary and facefacts do not contain fragrance in their ingredients, as every product on this page lists no fragrance.

Which skin types do brand-focused routines for The Ordinary fit best?

Brand-focused routines for The Ordinary fit dry skin, dry sensitive skin, and combination skin best.

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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