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The Ordinary vs Sand & Sky

The Ordinary and Sand & Sky are skincare lines with distinct botanical and clinical approaches. The Ordinary offers serums, moisturizers, cleansers, toners, and more built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane, whereas Sand & Sky is beloved for its purifying masks and targeted formulas. The former brand's products fit dry skin and dry sensitive skin best, while the latter brand's products suit combination, oily, and acne-prone skin best. Ultimately, they differ in their key ingredients, ranging from hydration-boosting molecules to gently clarifying botanicals.

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.

Questions and answers

The Ordinary or Sand & Sky: which is better?

The Ordinary offers a much larger selection of fragrance-free products that Lovi rates best for dry, dry sensitive, and sensitive skin types, whereas Sand & Sky features only a single mask containing fragrance.

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

The products on this page from The Ordinary offer a wide variety of fragrance-free serums, moisturizers, and cleansers that fit dry, dry sensitive, and sensitive skin best. In contrast, Sand & Sky features just one scented mask on this page.

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

The Ordinary offers affordable and great value serums among the products on this page, while Sand & Sky does not feature budget-focused products.

Do any products from The Ordinary or Sand & Sky contain fragrance?

The products on this page from The Ordinary list no fragrance in their ingredients, whereas the Australian Pink Clay Porefining Face Mask from Sand & Sky contains fragrance.

Which brand has been around longer, The Ordinary or Sand & Sky?

The Ordinary has been around longer, having been founded in 2016, whereas Sand & Sky was founded in 2017.

What are the main key ingredients found across the products of The Ordinary?

The products on this page for The Ordinary feature key ingredients including hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane.

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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.

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