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The Ordinary vs Rilastil

The Ordinary and Rilastil are skincare brands that offer serums, moisturizers, cleansers, toners, and more. The Canadian brand is built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane, whereas the second is warmly loved for its targeted serums and meticulously balanced formulas. Both suit dry, sensitive, and mature skin types best, with the first also fitting dry sensitive skin and acne-prone skin, while they differ because the first brand features specific formulas for acne, dark spots, and mature skin, and the second restores daily comfort and enhances natural resilience.

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 Rilastil 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 Rilastil: which is better?

The Ordinary offers a much wider range of products that are affordable and great value, with high fit levels for dry, dry sensitive, and combination skin, whereas Rilastil has only one product featured on this page with lower fit levels for those skin types.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and Rilastil?

The products on this page for The Ordinary offer a wide variety of skincare items targeting numerous skin types, whereas Rilastil features only a single acne-focused product that has an average or low Lovi fit across different skin types.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or Rilastil?

The products on this page by The Ordinary are frequently praised by reviewers as affordable and great value serums, whereas the Rilastil range on this page features only one product and lacks similar affordability mentions.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The Ordinary or Rilastil?

The products on this page from The Ordinary include options that are affordable and great value serums, while Rilastil is represented by only one product, Acnestil. The Ordinary offers several acne-clearing serums, whereas the page details no specific acne-clearing focus for Rilastil.

How do the founding years and corporate ownership of The Ordinary and Rilastil compare?

The Ordinary was founded in 2016 in Canada and has been owned by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. since 2021, whereas Rilastil was founded earlier in 1972 and is owned by Istituto Ganassini.

Do any products from either The Ordinary or Rilastil contain added fragrance in their ingredients?

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

Which brand offers a wider variety of products tailored for dry skin, The Ordinary or Rilastil?

The Ordinary offers a much wider variety of products on this page for dry skin, with several items achieving a Superior Lovi fit level, whereas Rilastil features only a single serum that is not rated as a fit for dry skin.

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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