The Ordinary
Vitamin C Suspension 23% + HA Spheres 2% (2019 formulation)
Facetypically under $12
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Ingredient safety
A 45-point gap between the two loudest voices.
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Ingredient safety
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Also screened, nothing found: ECHA SVHC Candidate List · California Proposition 65 · IARC Monographs · EU Harmonised Classification (CLP Annex VI) · US NTP Report on Carcinogens · Health Canada Ingredient Hotlist
Environmental
Also screened, nothing found: EU Microplastics Restriction
Labor
Run by a nonprofit. Auto-linked to this product, not yet human-reviewed. This rates The Ordinary as a company and applies to everything they make, not this product alone. Checked this week. about this rater →
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5 ratings · 2 of 4 axes
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- Fewer raters reach smaller-brand products, so a missing rating is not a clean bill of health, only a gap.
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Ingredients, decoded
Data availability
Robust15 of 15 characterized
Our sources have reference data on all 15 listed ingredients.
Worth a look (2)
Endocrine-activeflagged by 3 of 9 lists
ANSES endocrine candidateflagged by 1 of 9 lists
No flags in our sources (13)
- Squalane
- Isodecyl Neopentanoate
- Isononyl Isononanoate
- Coconut Alkanes
- Ethylene/Propylene/Styrene Copolymer
- Ethylhexyl Palmitate
- Silica Dimethyl Silylate
- Sodium Hyaluronatehumectant
- Glucomannan
- Coco-Caprylate/Caprate
- Butylene/Ethylene/Styrene Copolymer
- Acrylates/Ethylhexyl Acrylate Crosspolymer
- Trihydroxystearin
What these ingredient tags mean (1)
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humectantSodium Hyaluronate
- Sodium Hyaluronate: A humectant that holds a large amount of water at the skin surface. Chylińska N, Maciejczyk M, "Hyaluronic Acid and Skin: Its Role in Aging and Wound-Healing Processes", Gels 2025;11(4):281, DOI 10.3390/gels11040281, PMID 40277717, open access: hyaluronic acid's "high osmotic activity and anionic structure enable it to bind large amounts of water", and "sodium and potassium hyaluronate are widely used in moisturizing products". The same review notes that high-molecular-weight hyaluronic acid does not penetrate the deeper layers.