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The Ordinary vs Sesderma

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 is the better choice for most shoppers on this page, offering a much larger range of fragrance-free products that fit dry, oily, and sensitive skin types well, whereas Sesderma currently features only a single serum with added fragrance.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and Sesderma?

The Ordinary offers a large range of products featuring key ingredients like hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane with no added fragrance, while Sesderma features a smaller selection with fragrance. The Ordinary products on this page fit dry skin, dry sensitive skin, and oily skin best.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or Sesderma?

The products on this page by The Ordinary are often mentioned by reviewers as affordable and great value serums.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The Ordinary or Sesderma?

The Ordinary products on this page help reduce breakouts, featuring several acne-clearing serums and a wide selection of items that fit acne-prone skin well.

Which of the two brands offers products formulated without added fragrance?

The Ordinary offers products formulated without added fragrance, as every product on its page lists no fragrance in its ingredients.

When was each skincare brand founded and where are they from?

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

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?

Scan your face, then any product: Lovi shows how well it fits you and what fits even better.