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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 products on this page than Sesderma, and every product lists no fragrance. Niacinamide helps reduce pigmentation and fades dark spots.

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What is the difference between The Ordinary and Sesderma?

The products on this page from The Ordinary offer a wide range of affordable, fragrance-free serums and moisturizers, whereas Sesderma currently features just a single serum which contains fragrance. Lovi finds that The Ordinary fits best for dry skin, sensitive skin, and skin with dark spots.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or Sesderma?

The Ordinary products on this page are often praised by reviewers for being affordable and offering great value, whereas the Sesderma range lacks this feedback.

Which brand has more product options listed on the page, The Ordinary or Sesderma?

The Ordinary has more product options listed on the page compared to Sesderma, offering a wide range of serums, cleansers, and moisturizers.

Do products from The Ordinary contain fragrance, and how does that compare to Sesderma's Azelac RU Serum?

Every product from The Ordinary on this page lists no fragrance in its ingredients, whereas Sesderma's Azelac RU Serum contains fragrance.

Which skin types do the brand-focused routines for The Ordinary fit best?

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

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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