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The Ordinary vs AlumierMD

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The Ordinary and AlumierMD are Canadian skincare brands founded in 2016. The Ordinary offers serums, moisturizers, cleansers, toners, and more, built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane, making it best for dry skin and dry sensitive skin. Meanwhile, AlumierMD is beloved for its advanced serums and scientifically backed formulas, suiting sensitive, aging, and hyperpigmented skin best. While both brands share a Canadian origin and launch year, they differ in their product ranges and target formulations.

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

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AlumierMD is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2016 and owned by Alumier Group Holdings Limited / Alumier Labs Inc..

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

Popular The Ordinary vs AlumierMD products

The Ordinary vs AlumierMD serums and treatments

Questions and answers

The Ordinary or AlumierMD: which is better?

The Ordinary offers a much larger variety of products on this page across multiple skin types, while AlumierMD features only a single serum listed here. Reviewers frequently note that The Ordinary provides affordable and great value serums with acne-clearing and dark spot fading benefits.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and AlumierMD?

The Ordinary offers a large range of fragrance-free skincare products on this page that Lovi finds fit best for dry skin, dry sensitive skin, and skin with dark spots, whereas AlumierMD features just one fragrance-free serum on this page.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or AlumierMD?

The products on this page from The Ordinary are often mentioned by reviewers as affordable and offering great value. AlumierMD has no comparable pricing details on this page.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The Ordinary or AlumierMD?

The products on this page from The Ordinary help with breakouts by offering acne-clearing serums, whereas AlumierMD features only a single serum here.

When was The Ordinary founded and who owns the brand?

The Ordinary was founded in 2016 in Canada and has been owned by The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. since 2021.

Do products from The Ordinary and AlumierMD contain fragrance?

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

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

According to its brand-focused routines, the products on this page for The Ordinary fit dry skin, dry sensitive skin, and skin with dark spots best.

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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