The Ordinary crafted functional, affordable clinical skincare with integrity
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Love their affordability and quality of products. Their aha bha mask is my holy grail!
Could re work some products and provide minis for example for the glycolic acid bottle.
I'm very torn on The Ordinary. On one hand, I like that a lot of their products are affordable, innovative, and have gotten people into skincare but on the other, I feel like many of their products are ineffective, redundant and confusing. I really enjoy the antioxidant products like the Pycnogenol and Resveratrol 3% + Ferulic Acid 3% but find the Lactic Acid products and vitamin C to burn and not provide any benefits that I see from similar products. Overall, there are I products I really love, and ones I really dislike so I'd rate it somewhere in the middle.
I'd recommend their antioxidants but try the exfoliators at your own risk.
Highly recommend anything from the ordinary. They bring quality skincare at an affordable price. I’ve been using this products for years
Innovative products at an affordable price. I’ve used one of their peels before. It was good but it irritated my sensitive skin. I would like to try their non peel products though
I have used many of their products from skincare to hair. They all have worked pretty well for me!
I have tried the ordinary's hyaluronic acid serum, glycolic acid toner, rosehip seed oil, and their infamous red AHA and BHA peeling solution. I'm not sure if these products did anything beneficial for me, but they didn't do anything terrible, either.
I don't know a whole lot about skincare, but the ordinary seems to offer products with isolated active ingredients. It would be nice if there was a user-friendly and easy to understand guide for their products and what each one does, and how each one works with others from the brand. It seems like we're all going in blind if we don't know exactly what niacinamide or azelaic acid is, what they do, and how they interact with each other, for instance.
love all of their products. When I lived in nyc I would go to the store in nolita.
AHA+BHA chemical peel is great for oily skin and anyone with acne prone skin. Does wonders to lighten acne scars on back.
I love the Ordinary skin care line. It offers quality products at a reasonable price point. I am a firm believer in being able to buy great skincare products at drugstore prices. We often get sold prodcuts with unreasonable promises at astromical prices. Their customer service is great too, I asked for advice in the their chat and recieved feedback on which products work best with others and which ones to not use together to avoid negating the intended effects of each product.
Look into what product will help your skincare concerns and The Ordinary will probabaly offer that item. Don't get caught up in the sells tactics of other overpriced brands.
