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The trick to starting with great active ingredient skincare like The Ordinary – is this –
start with active ingredients which are potent and soothing. Like a spa massage not a
sports therapy massage.
Summary time.
Below you will find a quick list of the all-time best The Ordinary skincare products.These are the best products from the ordinary for almost any skin type – even sensitive. And below these, you will also find a full, scientific explanation of why they’re best, what they can do for your skin and the best way to use them.
1. The Ordinary Niacinamide 10% + Zinc 1% – £5/30ml
2. The Ordinary Matrixyl 10% + HA – £9.60/30ml
3. The Ordinary Ascorbyl Glucoside Solution 12% – £8.90/30ml
4. The Ordinary Resveratrol 3% + Ferulic Acid 3% – £5.50/30ml
5. The Ordinary Azelaic Acid Suspension 10% – £5.50/30ml
6. BONUS – The Ordinary Natural Moisturizing Factors + HA – a perfect ending for any skincare routine – £6.80/100ml
My friend there is so much love for your skin right here.
Ready to learn more? Pick the 3 you’re most tempted to try and read the – in full – why this is a best The Ordinary product pick down below.
1. The Ordinary Niacinamide 10% + Zinc 1%
Niacinamide is a wondrous ingredient for almost everyone’s skin. In my opinion, it’s fantastic and if you’ve taken my The Ordinary speed training, I bet you’re already using one that’s a perfect fit for you. Now usually when skincare products claim – I’m going to help you balance skin, it’s a bit of a white lie. Really what they do is temporary make skin less oily or help stop your sebum glands aka the oil makers from being so active.
Niacinamide is different.
Niacinamide can help lower your skin’s sebum levels while also helping your skin make ceramides.
This is vital.
Skincare which can help balance your skin by drying it out – usually ends up in you getting oily and dry, dehydrated skin.
How is this possible!?
Niacinamide is different because not only can it turn down your skin’s sebum making, it also helps kick start the making of an active your skin uses to help stop dryness and dehydration.
These actives my friend is known as ceramides.
Ceramides are one of 3 needed building blocks for healthy, happy, hydrated skin. The other 2 – they’re fatty acids and cholesterol.
The love niacinamide has for your skin does not stop here. One of the extra ways this beauty is fabulous is in its activity as an anti-inflammatory.
Which means if you have any kind of;
• Redness
• Rosacea
• Sensitivity
• Irritation
• Blotchyness
Then niacinamide is here to help.
Also psst; Many of us have something called inflammageing of the skin – small, unnoticeable to the naked eye inflammation that is persistent – it causes your skin to age faster. Bottom line – it’s always a good idea to have an anti-inflammatory active in your skincare routine.
And bonus, niacinamide is also a fab worker bee at;
• Brightening skin
• Helping fade away hyperpigmentation
• Evening your skin tone
• Helping reduce symptoms of acne
• Speeding the healing of spots
• Helping reduce fine lines
See why The Ordinary’s Niacinamide 10% + Zinc 1% makes the top of the best The ordinary products list? That list of skin benefits is pretty darn spectacular eh. Plus it’s also especially sensitive to skin.
Buy it now.
2. The Ordinary Matrixyl 10% + HA . The one for you if you want an anti-ageing, fine line reversing power up. And you don’t want it to burn, redden or break you out – pesky retinol side effects eh.
As an award-winning cosmetic formulator, I have a heck load of love for Matrixyl.
Matrixyl is an extremely impressive collagen booster… and collagen my friend is what helps your skin resist fine lines and wrinkles. Like a trampoline cage. The hands which make crowd surfing possible. What a wave is to a surfboard. The DHL delivery man to an ASOS haul.
Collagen is skin youth.
At this very moment in time – THE go-to for anti-ageing is retinol or retinoids. They are ridiculously well proven.
Ask any skinspert about anti-ageing and you will soon hear – retinol.
Matrixyl lags behind.
But – matrixyl does not lag behind because it’s less effective vs. retinol – us scientists don’t know which works best yet – but matrixyl does lag behind because it is a newbie.
…and being a newbies means there’s less proof it works.
Psst; Matrixyl is a brand name – you won’t find it on a skincare ingredients list – what you will find is the words palmitoyl tetrapeptide-7.
Extra proof matrixyl works; an approved and published patent covers the main benefits of matrixyl in skincare – it records that at just 50 parts per million – basically a really, really small concentration – it has a significant benefit to lines and wrinkles around the eyes.
And lots more published, placebo-controlled studies say the same – just look here and here.
Bear in mind this pick from The Ordinary skincare is way, way stronger.
Double psst; even though this is a sensitive and strong formula, you’ll need to use consistently for 3 months to begin seeing benefits.
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3. The Ordinary Ascorbyl Glucoside Solution 12%. This is vitamin C my friend. But not just any old vitamin C… vitamin C which is non-stingy, non-irritating and highly stable. Yes, please.
While vitamin C has a high reputation for helping boost your skin’s collagen networks aka helping reverse fine lines and wrinkles, where this beauty really stands out is in its abilities to help lighten, brighten and even your skin tone.
Fab for helping give you an incredible glow.
And the key reason why it makes this golden list of best The Ordinary products.
It’s a winner for helping sort out;
• Dark marks
• Acne scars
• Hyper-pigmentation
• Post-inflammatory hyper-pigmentation
• Uneven skin tone
And it’s in a non-greasy, lightweight serum formula too – winning.
Psst – an extra bit of sciency info; this is what us scientists call a protected form of vitamin C (some others call it an indirect vitamin C), you can tell because there’s something that follows the word ascorbyl – that’s the protecting group. Like a bodyguard.
Non-protected vitamin C is called ascorbic acid and as an antioxidant, it loves to work… on anything… meaning it goes off quickly. I’ve even seen it giving people blackheads because of this. But putting a bodyguard next door to ascorbic acid helps stop this from
happening. Once absorbed in, the bodyguard knows its job is done and goes for a long, well-deserved nap time. While the bodyguard’s gone, your skin sweeps in and eats up the yummy ascorbic acid.
While there are now a whole 8 The Ordinary vitamin C products to choose from, this my friend is the best The Ordinary product for almost any skin type. Although if you’re wanting a specific, tailored to you recommendation be sure to join my The Ordinary speed training here.
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p.s. if you’re worried about going wrong with mixing The Ordinary skincare make sure to grab yourself a copy of my free How to Mix The Ordinary Skincare Cheat Sheet – click
here to get yours.
4. The Ordinary Resveratrol 3% + Ferulic Acid 3% Bonus points if you plan to use this one with a vitamin C serum. These lovelies work together to make an impressively strong antioxidant network.
This is a standout antioxidant blend from The Ordinary.
Not only are these actives helpfully super sensitive to skin.
They’re also much more than just an antioxidant.
They’re proactively anti-ageing too.
These 2 active skincare ingredients can also make vitamin C serums last longer… and better. Plus it can do the same for the vitamin C your skin naturally has too.
This, my friend, is why The Ordinary Resveratrol 3% + Ferulic Acid 3% makes my list of best The Ordinary products.
It’s a perfect partner. Like salt to caramel. Or Marmite to peanut butter – trust me it’s insane.
This The Ordinary vitamin C is super at;
• Anti-ageing
• Skin tone brightening
• Dark mark/age spot resisting
• Pigmentation fading – resveratrol is very helpful for this
• Pollution protecting
• Fine line and wrinkle protecting – plus reversing
Crazy fact; resveratrol is found in grapes and red wine (! – whereas ferulic acid – that’s popcorn and bamboo shoots – random eh) a lot of the actives found in certain kinds of red grapes have incredible antioxidant powers. If you ever see words like resveratrol, catechin, epicatechin, gallocatechin, gallic acid, ellagic acid – think red grapes. And in fact, resveratrol is found to have some of the strongest antioxidant powers of them all. A super juice that’s pretty yummy too eh.
Use this one in the morning – it might feel a tad greasy for 5-10 seconds but after it absorbs in quick.
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5. The Ordinary Azelaic Acid Suspension 10%. This is an exfoliating cream. But not the kind where you have to rub and scrub and tug. Oh no my friend, this best The Ordinary product is the kind where you don’t even realise you’re exfoliating. Which is fab because it means your skin doesn’t either. A fact which makes The Ordinary’s azelaic acid one of the most sensitive skin-friendly leave on exfoliating actives in The Ordinary’s whole entire portfolio.
It’s even an active doctors prescribe to help treat rosacea i.e. a reddening of skin which sometimes comes with what look like acne breakouts.
Great for a whole bookshelf load of benefits;
• Skin tone smoothing
• Skin tone evening
• Anti-redness
• Anti-spots and pimples
• Pore size minimising
• Brightening
p.s. if you’re new to leave on exfoliants you’re in for a fab surprise. This family of skincare actives are great for skin and that’s because they exfoliate well beyond your skin’s top and visible layers.
Imagine using a scrub exfoliant… it’s like pouring wine over your closed lips – you’re probably going to taste it but the rest is wasted. Leave on exfoliants are like drinking wine with your mouth wide open
Why use something that only touches the surface when instead you can enjoy the whole experience? Azelaic acid my friend.
Best used in PM.
Buy it now.
Sorted – your go-to list of the best The Ordinary products. Which are you trying first?
And psst, if you’re still feeling overwhelmed or intimidated and just want someone to show you exactly how to design yourself a The Ordinary skincare routine with best potential to get you makeupless skin you love (in less time than it takes to bake chocolate chip cookies) then check out my The Ordinary speed training
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