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The Ordinary vs Sesderma

The Ordinary and Sesderma are distinguished skincare brands offering targeted solutions for diverse complexions. The Canadian brand centers its serums, moisturizers, cleansers, and toners on hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane, suiting dry and sensitive skin best, while the Spanish brand is beloved for advanced serums and meticulously engineered formulas that suit sensitive, hyperpigmented, and aging skin types. Both brands differ in their founding origins and specific product formulations, providing precise ingredients like botanical extracts and active compounds to address individual concerns.

The Ordinary is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2016 and owned by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. since 2021.

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Sesderma is a Spanish skincare brand founded in 1989 and owned by Grupo Sesderma since 2026.

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This page compares some of the most popular The Ordinary and Sesderma 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 Sesderma: which is better?

The Ordinary offers a much larger selection of fragrance-free products on this page and is rated High or Superior for dry skin, sensitive skin, and skin with dark spots, whereas Sesderma lists only one product here with fragrance.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and Sesderma?

The Ordinary offers a large range of fragrance-free products that Lovi rates best for dry skin, sensitive skin, and skin with dark spots, whereas Sesderma features a single serum on this page which contains fragrance.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or Sesderma?

The products on this page by The Ordinary are noted for being affordable and offering great value serums, while Sesderma lacks this focus on the page.

Which of the two brands offers products with no fragrance?

The Ordinary offers products on this page with no fragrance, as every single one of its formulas lists no fragrance in its ingredients.

How do the founding years and countries of origin compare between The Ordinary and Sesderma?

The Ordinary was founded in Canada in 2016, whereas Sesderma was founded in Spain earlier, in 1989.

Which brand has more product options listed for treating dry skin?

The Ordinary has significantly more product options listed for treating dry skin, featuring multiple items with a Superior or High Lovi fit level like Natural Moisturizing Factors + HA.

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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