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The Ordinary vs Ceradan

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The Ordinary and Ceradan are distinct skincare options featuring targeted serums, moisturizers, cleansers, toners, and restorative creams built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane. The Ordinary suits dry, dry sensitive, acne-prone, mature, and unevenly pigmented skin best through active ingredients like niacinamide and lactic acid, while Ceradan focuses on gentle, scientifically designed formulas that suit dry, irritated, and sensitive skin. Both brands differ in their approaches, as the Canadian line emphasizes specific single-ingredient serums and acids, whereas the latter relies on restorative barrier creams to nurture comfort and health.

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

Popular The Ordinary vs Ceradan products

The Ordinary vs Ceradan moisturizers

Questions and answers

The Ordinary or Ceradan: which is better?

The Ordinary offers a much larger variety of targeted serums and treatments with high Lovi fit levels for dry, sensitive, and acne-prone skin, whereas Ceradan focuses strictly on barrier repair creams. Ceradan relies heavily on ceramide-dominant formulations that help soothe dry and sensitive skin.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and Ceradan?

The Ordinary offers a large variety of serums, toners, and cleansers with High or Superior Lovi fit levels for dry, sensitive, and dry sensitive skin, whereas Ceradan provides a smaller selection of moisturizers like Cream that have a High fit for dry and sensitive skin. Hyaluronic acid helps improve skin hydration.

Drug Delivery, 2017

The Ordinary or Ceradan: which moisturizer is better?

For moisturizers, The Ordinary offers a wider variety with superior or high Lovi fit levels for dry and dry sensitive skin, such as Natural Moisturizing Factors + HA, whereas Ceradan provides targeted barrier repair creams with high Lovi fit levels for those same skin types.

Dermatologic Therapy, 2022

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or Ceradan?

The products on this page from The Ordinary include affordable and great value serums among their praised benefits, whereas Ceradan does not mention affordability.

Which causes fewer breakouts, The Ordinary or Ceradan?

Both The Ordinary and Ceradan offer products on this page that are unlikely to clog pores, but Ceradan focuses strictly on gentle barrier repair creams suited for sensitive skin, whereas The Ordinary features specialized acne-clearing serums that help manage breakouts.

When were The Ordinary and Ceradan founded and who owns them?

The Ordinary was founded in Canada in 2016 and is owned by The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Ceradan was founded in 2011 and is owned by Hyphens Pharma International Limited.

How do the fit levels for dry sensitive skin compare between The Ordinary and Ceradan moisturizers?

For dry sensitive skin, Lovi fit levels are Superior or High for the Ordinary moisturizers and High for Ceradan moisturizers.

Do any products from The Ordinary or Ceradan contain fragrance?

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

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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