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The Ordinary vs VR

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The Ordinary and VR are distinct skincare lines created for targeted daily care. The Canadian brand offers serums, moisturizers, cleansers, and toners built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane, suiting dry and dry sensitive skin best, with specific formulas for acne-prone, dark spot, and mature skin. Conversely, the second brand is deeply appreciated for the sensory pleasure of its moisturizers and the considered design of its formulas, suiting combination, sensitive, and dry skin best with standouts like the PDRN CREAM. While both brands continually refine their offerings, they differ in ingredient focus and sensory experience.

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

Popular The Ordinary vs VR products

The Ordinary vs VR moisturizers

Questions and answers

The Ordinary or VR: which is better?

The Ordinary offers a much wider variety of products on this page than VR, making it a more versatile choice for most skin types. Reviewers frequently praise the brand for its affordable and effective acne-clearing and texture-smoothing serums.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and VR?

The Ordinary offers a large range of fragrance-free serums, cleansers, and moisturizers that fit dry and combination skin best, whereas VR features only a single PDRN cream with High fit for sensitive skin.

The Ordinary or VR: which moisturizer is better?

The products on this page show that The Ordinary offers a much wider variety of moisturizers compared to VR, which only lists the PDRN CREAM. Lovi finds that The Ordinary features multiple moisturizers with High or Superior fit levels for dry skin, whereas VR has an Average fit for dry skin.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or VR?

The Ordinary offers more affordable options than VR, featuring a wide range of budget-friendly serums and treatments on the products on this page.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The Ordinary or VR?

The products on this page from The Ordinary offer multiple acne-clearing serums and treatments with high to superior Lovi fit levels for acne-prone skin, whereas VR only features a single moisturizer. Therefore, The Ordinary provides a much wider selection of breakout-targeted options.

When was The Ordinary founded compared to VR?

The Ordinary was founded in 2016, whereas VR was founded in 2018.

Do any products from The Ordinary or VR contain fragrance?

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

Which brand offers a cleanser suitable for dry skin, The Ordinary or VR?

The Ordinary offers a cleanser suitable for dry skin, specifically the Glycolipid Cream Cleanser, which has a Superior fit for dry skin according to Lovi.

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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