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The Ordinary vs Sand & Sky

Rated by Lovi · Unbiased, science-based skincare AI trained on real user outcomes · How the Fit score works

The Ordinary and Sand & Sky are skincare lines featuring targeted formulas for varied complexions. The Ordinary offers serums, moisturizers, cleansers, and toners built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane, while the beloved brand is known for its purifying masks. Both suit acne-prone skin best, with the Canadian brand additionally fitting dry skin and the Australian-inspired line suiting combination and oily skin. They differ primarily in their core offerings and ingredient profiles, as the former focuses on science-backed hydrators and acids, and the latter relies on botanical ingredients to gently clarify.

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

Popular The Ordinary vs Sand & Sky products

Questions and answers

The Ordinary or Sand & Sky: which is better?

The Ordinary fits dry skin, oily acne-prone skin, and mature skin best on this page, and Lovi finds that every product on the page has no fragrance. Sand & Sky has only one product on the page, the Australian Pink Clay Porefining Face Mask, which contains fragrance.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and Sand & Sky?

The Ordinary offers a much larger variety of fragrance-free products on this page and fits dry skin, oily acne-prone skin, and mature skin best, whereas Sand & Sky features only one product on this page, which contains fragrance. Lovi rates the fit of The Ordinary's products across many skin types as high to superior, while Sand & Sky's porefining face mask reaches a high fit mainly for acne-prone, oily, and combination skin.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or Sand & Sky?

The products on this page from The Ordinary are noted for being affordable and providing great value. Sand & Sky has no mention of affordability on this page.

Which of the two brands offers products containing no fragrance?

The Ordinary is the brand that offers products on this page containing no fragrance, as every product listed for it has no fragrance in its ingredients. In contrast, the Sand & Sky product on this page includes fragrance.

When was The Ordinary founded compared to Sand & Sky?

The Ordinary was founded in 2016, while Sand & Sky was founded in 2017.

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

The brand-focused routines for The Ordinary fit 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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