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The Ordinary vs Catrice

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

The Ordinary and Catrice are two distinct beauty brands offering specialized daily care. The Canadian skincare brand, founded in 2016 and owned by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. since 2021, features serums, moisturizers, cleansers, toners, and more built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane, suiting dry skin and dry sensitive skin best. Meanwhile, the German skincare brand, founded in 2004 and owned by cosnova, is beloved for its refined eye products and advanced formulas, suiting combination, oily, and normal skin best. While the former relies on targeted ingredients like niacinamide and mandelic acid for specific concerns, the latter delivers reliable daily performance through thoughtful formulations like its Under Eye Brightener.

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

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Catrice is a German skincare brand founded in 2004 and owned by cosnova.

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

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Questions and answers

The Ordinary or Catrice: which is better?

The Ordinary offers a much larger variety of skincare products on this page, fitting dry skin best.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and Catrice?

The Ordinary offers a large range of products featuring active ingredients that Lovi rates with high to superior fit levels for dry, sensitive, and dry sensitive skin. In contrast, Catrice features a very limited selection on this page, represented by a single eye product.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or Catrice?

The products on this page for The Ordinary include affordable and great value serums among their commonly mentioned benefits by reviewers. Catrice features only one product on this page, the Under Eye Brightener, and offers no explicit value comparisons for the brand as a whole.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The Ordinary or Catrice?

The products on this page from The Ordinary include targeted blemish and acne-clearing serums, whereas Catrice offers only an under eye brightener.

When and where were The Ordinary and Catrice founded?

The Ordinary was founded in Canada in 2016, while Catrice was founded in Germany in 2004.

Which parent companies own The Ordinary and Catrice?

The Ordinary is owned by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., while Catrice is owned by cosnova.

Do products from The Ordinary and Catrice contain fragrance?

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

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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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