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The Ordinary vs Sand & Sky

The Ordinary and Sand & Sky are skincare lines with distinct botanical and clinical approaches. The Ordinary offers serums, moisturizers, cleansers, toners, and more built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane, whereas Sand & Sky is beloved for its purifying masks and targeted formulas. The former brand's products fit dry skin and dry sensitive skin best, while the latter brand's products suit combination, oily, and acne-prone skin best. Ultimately, they differ in their key ingredients, ranging from hydration-boosting molecules to gently clarifying botanicals.

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 Sand & Sky 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 Sand & Sky: which is better?

The Ordinary offers a much larger variety of fragrance-free products on this page and fits dry, dry sensitive, and combination skin best. Sand & Sky features only a single mask that contains fragrance.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and Sand & Sky?

The Ordinary offers a large range of fragrance-free products that Lovi rates best for dry, dry sensitive, and combination skin, whereas Sand & Sky features products on this page that contain fragrance.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or Sand & Sky?

The Ordinary is more affordable, offering products on this page that shoppers frequently praise as affordable and great value serums.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The Ordinary or Sand & Sky?

The products on this page from The Ordinary provide a high fit for acne-prone skin across many serums and toners, while Sand & Sky features only a single pink clay mask with a high acne fit.

Do any products from The Ordinary contain fragrance?

The products on this page from The Ordinary list no fragrance in their ingredients.

Which brand offers more products for dry skin according to the page?

The Ordinary offers more products for dry skin on this page, with numerous options holding a Superior or High fit level, whereas Sand & Sky lists only one product with an Average fit for dry skin.

When was The Ordinary founded and who owns it?

The Ordinary was founded in 2016 in Canada and has been owned by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. since 2021.

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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