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The Ordinary vs facefacts

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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.

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Questions and answers

The Ordinary or facefacts: which is better?

The Ordinary offers a much larger selection of products on this page compared to facefacts, catering to various skin types with fit levels ranging from Superior to Low. Reviewers frequently mention benefits such as affordable value, texture smoothing, and acne-clearing serums.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and facefacts?

The Ordinary offers a large range of specialized skincare products with High to Superior Lovi fit levels for skin types like dry, oily, and sensitive skin, while facefacts features just a single cleanser on this page with a High Lovi fit for dry, sensitive, and acne-prone skin. Both brands include no fragrance in their products on this page.

The Ordinary or facefacts: which cleanser is better?

The products on this page show that The Ordinary offers more variety for cleansers, including the Glycolipid Cream Cleanser and Glucoside Foaming Cleanser, whereas facefacts has just one option. Lovi rates the Glycolipid Cream Cleanser as having a Superior fit for dry skin, while the facefacts Hydrating Gentle Cleanser has a High fit for dry and sensitive skin.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or facefacts?

Reviewers frequently note that The Ordinary offers affordable and great value serums among the products on this page, whereas facefacts does not share this distinction.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The Ordinary or facefacts?

The products on this page by The Ordinary provide High or Superior Lovi fit levels for acne-prone and oily acne-prone skin across many serums, toners, and cleansers. In comparison, facefacts offers only a single cleanser on this page with a High fit for acne-prone 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.

Which skin types does The Ordinary fit best according to its brand-focused routines?

According to its brand-focused routines, The Ordinary fits dry skin, dry sensitive skin, and oily skin best.

Do products from The Ordinary and facefacts contain fragrance?

Every product on this page for both The Ordinary and facefacts 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.

  • 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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