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The Ordinary vs ELIDEL

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The Ordinary and ELIDEL are distinct skincare choices, with the Canadian brand offering targeted serums and moisturizers built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane, while the Swiss brand is beloved for gentle moisturizers and soothing formulas. The Ordinary suits dry skin and oily, acne-prone skin best, whereas its counterpart's carefully balanced compositions suit sensitive, dry skin best. Both provide reliable daily options, but they differ because the former features active-driven preparations like niacinamide, mandelic acid, and lactic acid for specific concerns, while the latter relies on pimecrolimus to maintain calm skin.

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

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ELIDEL is a Swiss skincare brand founded in 2001 and owned by Viatris Inc. since 2016.

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

Popular The Ordinary vs ELIDEL products

The Ordinary vs ELIDEL moisturizers

Questions and answers

The Ordinary or ELIDEL: which is better?

The products on this page from The Ordinary generally offer a higher fit across most skin types, whereas ELIDEL provides an average fit specifically for sensitive and dry skin types.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and ELIDEL?

The Ordinary offers a wide range of affordable serums, toners, and moisturizers that fit dry, oily acne-prone, and mature skin best, whereas ELIDEL features a single moisturizer, pimecrolimus, which has an average fit for sensitive and dry skin. Both brands list no fragrance in the products on this page.

The Ordinary or ELIDEL: which moisturizer is better?

The products on this page show that The Ordinary offers moisturizers with a High or Superior fit for dry skin, whereas ELIDEL only reaches an Average fit for that skin type.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or ELIDEL?

The products on this page from The Ordinary are noted for providing affordable and great value serums, whereas ELIDEL features only a single product on this page with no specific affordability rating.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The Ordinary or ELIDEL?

The products on this page from The Ordinary help with breakouts by offering multiple serums with high or superior Lovi fit levels for acne-prone skin, whereas ELIDEL provides only one moisturizer which has a low fit level for acne-prone skin.

Which brand has been around longer, The Ordinary or ELIDEL?

ELIDEL has been around longer, having been founded in Switzerland in 2001, whereas The Ordinary was founded in Canada in 2016.

Do either The Ordinary or ELIDEL products contain fragrance?

The products on this page for both The Ordinary and ELIDEL list no fragrance in their ingredients.

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

According to its brand-focused routines, The Ordinary fits dry skin, oily acne-prone skin, and mature skin 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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