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The Ordinary vs Carotone

The Ordinary and Carotone are distinct skincare options built around targeted serums and carefully crafted formulas. The Canadian brand offers serums, moisturizers, cleansers, toners, and more, featuring hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane, while the latter is loved for its Brightening Cream. Both brands suit dry skin, though the former also fits dry sensitive skin, acne-prone skin, skin with dark spots, and mature skin, and the latter additionally suits normal and combination skin. They differ primarily in their key ingredients and specific product offerings designed for varied complexions.

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 Carotone 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 Carotone: which is better?

The Ordinary offers a much wider range of products on this page with varying Lovi fit levels for different skin types, whereas Carotone features only a single Brightening Cream with average fit across the board.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and Carotone?

The Ordinary offers a large range of fragrance-free products on this page fitting dry skin, dry sensitive skin, and skin with dark spots best, whereas Carotone includes only a brightening cream on this page.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or Carotone?

The products on this page for The Ordinary include affordable and great value serums, whereas Carotone does not list any affordability details on this page.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The Ordinary or Carotone?

The products on this page by The Ordinary provide better options for acne-prone skin, with several serums rated High or Superior, whereas Carotone offers only one average-rated brightening cream on this page.

In what year was The Ordinary founded, and who is its parent company?

The Ordinary was founded in 2016, and its parent company is The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

Do any of the products from either brand contain added fragrance?

Every product on the pages for both The Ordinary and Carotone lists no added 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.

How does it fit your skin?

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