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The Ordinary vs FRE

The Ordinary and FRE are two skincare lines built around distinct targeted formulas and nourishing ingredients. The Canadian brand offers serums, moisturizers, cleansers, toners, and more, featuring hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane to fit dry skin and dry sensitive skin best. Meanwhile, FRE is widely loved for its targeted product types and nourishing formulas that suit acne-prone skin best, owing to their gentle and effective compositions. These thoughtful formulations work to gently balance and support the complexion while differing in their core ingredient approaches.

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 FRE 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 FRE: which is better?

The Ordinary is a better choice than FRE because the products on this page offer a wide variety of affordable treatments, with Lovi fit levels ranging from Superior to High for dry and combination skin. FRE only features a single product on this page with average fit for those skin types.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and FRE?

The Ordinary offers a large range of fragrance-free products on this page fitting dry, dry sensitive, and combination skin best, while FRE has a single argan oil product listed. The products on this page for The Ordinary include affordable serums and moisturizers with ingredients like hyaluronic acid that may help with hydration.

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Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or FRE?

The products on this page for The Ordinary include affordable and great value serums, whereas FRE features very few options.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The Ordinary or FRE?

The products on this page from The Ordinary fit acne-prone skin with a High or Superior Lovi level for multiple targeted options, whereas FRE only lists an argan oil product with an Average fit for acne-prone skin.

What year were The Ordinary and FRE founded?

The Ordinary was founded in 2016 in Canada, and FRE was also founded in 2016.

Which company owns The Ordinary, and is FRE independently owned?

The Ordinary is owned by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., and FRE is independently owned.

Do any products from The Ordinary or FRE contain fragrance?

Every product on this page from both The Ordinary and FRE 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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