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The Ordinary vs BABOR

The Ordinary and BABOR are distinctive skincare brands offering varied approaches to daily routines through specialized products and formulations. The Canadian brand, founded in 2016, features serums, moisturizers, cleansers, and toners built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane, while the German brand, established in 1956, is deeply loved for its refined exfoliants and rich moisturizers. The Ordinary fits dry skin and dry sensitive skin best, and BABOR suits dry, normal, and combination skin best owing to its gentle yet effective nature. Both offer targeted solutions for specific concerns, yet they differ in their heritage, ingredient focus, and sensory experience.

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

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BABOR is a German skincare brand founded in 1956 and owned by BABOR BEAUTY GROUP since 1962.

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

Questions and answers

What is the difference between The Ordinary and BABOR?

The Ordinary offers a large range of fragrance-free products on this page fitting dry and sensitive skin best, while BABOR features very few options that include added scent in its moisturizer.

The Ordinary or BABOR: which moisturizer is better?

When comparing moisturizers, the products on this page from BABOR include Hydra Plus which achieves a Superior fit level for dry sensitive skin, while The Ordinary offers options like Natural Moisturizing Factors + HA which also reaches a Superior fit level for dry skin. BABOR's Hydra Plus features added fragrance, whereas The Ordinary products on this page list no fragrance.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or BABOR?

The products on this page from The Ordinary are frequently described by reviewers as affordable and offering great value, unlike BABOR which has no such mentions.

When was The Ordinary founded, and who owns it?

The Ordinary was founded in 2016 in Canada and has been owned by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. since 2021.

Do any products from The Ordinary contain fragrance?

Every product from The Ordinary on this page lists no fragrance in its ingredients.

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

BABOR has been around longer, having been founded in Germany in 1956, while The Ordinary was founded in Canada in 2016.

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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