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The Ordinary vs BABOR

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The Ordinary and BABOR are distinctive skincare brands offering varied approaches to daily routines through specialized products and formulations. The Canadian brand, founded in 2016, features serums, moisturizers, cleansers, and toners built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane, while the German brand, established in 1956, is deeply loved for its refined exfoliants and rich moisturizers. The Ordinary fits dry skin and dry sensitive skin best, and BABOR suits dry, normal, and combination skin best owing to its gentle yet effective nature. Both offer targeted solutions for specific concerns, yet they differ in their heritage, 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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BABOR is a German skincare brand founded in 1956 and owned by BABOR BEAUTY GROUP since 1962.

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This page compares some of the most popular The Ordinary and BABOR products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Popular The Ordinary vs BABOR products

Questions and answers

The Ordinary or BABOR: which is better?

The products on this page by The Ordinary offer a much wider variety of affordable treatments, while BABOR focuses on select options like the Enzyme Cleanser which has a superior Lovi fit across all skin types.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and BABOR?

The Ordinary offers a much larger variety of products on this page compared to BABOR, and Lovi rates the products on this page as having a fragrance-free formula throughout the range. BABOR includes fragrance in at least one of its featured products.

The Ordinary or BABOR: which moisturizer is better?

When comparing moisturizers, the products on this page from The Ordinary fit dry skin with a Superior level, while BABOR's Hydra Plus fits dry sensitive skin with a Superior level and dry skin with a High level.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or BABOR?

The products on this page for The Ordinary often feature affordable and great value serums, whereas BABOR does not list affordability as a key benefit on its page.

Which brand has been around longer, The Ordinary or BABOR?

BABOR has been around longer than The Ordinary, having been founded in Germany in 1956 compared to The Ordinary which was founded in Canada in 2016.

Do products from The Ordinary contain fragrance?

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

Which brand offers a wider variety of cleansers?

The Ordinary offers a wider variety of cleansers, as the products on this page include several options like the Glycolipid Cream Cleanser, Squalane Cleanser, and Glucoside Foaming Cleanser, whereas BABOR only lists a single enzyme cleanser.

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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