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The Ordinary vs Hanhoo

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The Ordinary and Hanhoo are accessible skincare brands offering dedicated routines for daily care. The Canadian brand centers its serums, moisturizers, cleansers, and toners around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane, while the second brand is widely loved for its targeted serums and carefully balanced formulas. Both options suit sensitive and dry skin best, though the first brand also features specific treatments for acne-prone, dark spot, and mature concerns, whereas the second line offers popular blemish and pore patches for gentle, effective relief.

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 Hanhoo products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Popular The Ordinary vs Hanhoo products

The Ordinary vs Hanhoo serums and treatments

Questions and answers

The Ordinary or Hanhoo: which is better?

The products on this page from The Ordinary offer a much wider variety of targeted serums, toners, and moisturizers that fit sensitive skin, dry sensitive skin, and oily skin at high to superior levels, whereas Hanhoo only features a couple of patch products.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and Hanhoo?

The Ordinary offers a large variety of serums, cleansers, and treatments that feature fit levels ranging from Superior to Low, while Hanhoo only features a couple of patch products on this page.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or Hanhoo?

The products on this page from The Ordinary are noted by reviewers as affordable and offering great value, whereas Hanhoo has a much smaller selection focused on patches rather than budget-friendly serums.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The Ordinary or Hanhoo?

The products on this page from The Ordinary help manage breakouts with acne-clearing serums, whereas Hanhoo offers targeted options like its Blemish Patch for localized spots.

How do the founding years and corporate ownerships of The Ordinary and Hanhoo compare?

The Ordinary was founded in Canada in 2016 and is owned by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., while Hanhoo was founded in 2008 and is independently owned.

Which brand offers a wider variety of skincare products, such as cleansers, serums, and moisturizers?

The Ordinary offers a wider variety of skincare products on this page, including multiple cleansers, serums, toners, and moisturizers.

What are the specific skin types that each brand is noted to fit best based on their routines?

The products on this page for The Ordinary fit sensitive skin, dry sensitive skin, and oily skin best, while Hanhoo lists no specific skin types that its brand-focused routines fit 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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