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The Ordinary vs Valmont

The Ordinary and Valmont are distinct skincare brands founded in Canada in 2016 and Switzerland in 1985, respectively. The Canadian brand offers serums, moisturizers, cleansers, and toners built around hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and squalane, while the Swiss brand is widely loved for its luxurious moisturizers and refined formulas. The former suits dry skin, dry sensitive skin, acne-prone skin, dark spots, and mature skin best, whereas the latter suits mature and dehydrated skin best. They differ because the first focuses on specific targeted concerns with ingredients like niacinamide, mandelic acid, and lactic acid, while the second focuses on delivering lasting comfort and gentle care to the complexion.

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

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Valmont is a Swiss skincare brand founded in 1985.

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This page compares some of the most popular The Ordinary and Valmont 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 Valmont: which is better?

The products on this page from The Ordinary generally offer much greater variety and better value, with Lovi fit levels reaching Superior for several options, whereas Valmont features a single luxury moisturizer that includes added fragrance.

What is the difference between The Ordinary and Valmont?

The products on this page for The Ordinary offer a wide variety of budget-friendly, fragrance-free skincare options with high fit levels for dry, dry sensitive, and sensitive skin, whereas Valmont features a single luxury moisturizer containing fragrance. Lovi rates the fit of Valmont's Prime Renewing Pack as high for mature and dry sensitive skin.

The Ordinary or Valmont: which moisturizer is better?

The products on this page for The Ordinary offer multiple moisturizers with high or superior Lovi fit levels for dry skin, such as Natural Moisturizing Factors + HA. In contrast, Valmont features just one moisturizer on this page, Prime Renewing Pack, which achieves an average Lovi fit level for dry skin.

Which is more affordable, The Ordinary or Valmont?

The Ordinary offers affordable and great value serums on the products on this page, whereas Valmont does not have this benefit listed.

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

Valmont has been around longer, having been founded in Switzerland in 1985, whereas The Ordinary was founded in Canada in 2016.

Do products from The Ordinary contain fragrance?

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

Which country was Valmont founded in?

Valmont was founded in Switzerland in 1985.

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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