The Dermaco vs The Ordinary 10% Niacinamide + Zinc Serum | 30 Day Experiment

Hey guys welcome back to my skincare Blog and welcome back to our new review Monday. I hope you all are doing well now before beginning this review Monday there are a couple of things that I quickly want to say so please bear with me now from today onwards the whole structure the layout and everything in which review Monday was done is going to change completely now.

I love my reviews to be as informative and as exhaustive as they can be for you but I also like to take into consideration a lot of things that you give back to me so constructive criticism opinions and ways in which I can better myself and my article is something I constantly look forward to and I was thinking about this for a while that how I can make my reviews be better for you especially when it comes to skincare so I have decided to implement a couple of changes so that again my reviews are as beneficial and as informative as they can be for you as I just said so and that's why today I'm going to be doing a review that I'm so excited to do because there's such a different concept.

I've not seen anyone do this till now so we're going to be testing our dupes side by side for a whole month to see if they're truly dupes or not so on my right side we have thedermaco 10 niacinamide serum and on my left side we have the ordinary niacinamide and zinc serum now these products are said to be dupes of one another but what happens a lot of times is that when we're testing a product one after the other we truly cannot make out if they are dupes or not because our skin is constantly changing the weather keeps on changing and just so much keeps on happening so to make this as you know transparent and as uh precise as possible.

 What I'm going to be doing is I'm going to be testing them out side by side half-face this one half face this one so you can see if my skin is going through different things or it's just you know different in its performance and what not and this was so fun to dodo let me know if you like to see more reviews like this where we can test out you side by side to see if they're truly dupes or not but first we're going to talk a little bit about Nasim so we have information about what it is if we even need it and what does it do so niacinamide is form of vitamin b particularly vitamin b3 it's an anti-inflammatory so it's great for people who have sensitive skin rosa clear Anthony but please do a patch test it before niacinamide does not react with a lot of skins but again patch testing is supremely important nasal light is pretty balanced on the ph level so it's great to repair your skin better and make sure it's not compromised so if you've over exfoliated your skin or are using a face wash that's too stripping for your skin Nathan amide is the thing that you need in your life niacinamide also helps in justmaking sure that your pigmentation and acne scars fade out quicker and your active acne dies down quicker too another thing that narcissism is great at is that layering with other actives because niacinamide is so balanced it just ensures that the other activities is not supremely harsh on the skin.

So if you have an activity that's too much for you just lay it up with nice and might and it would make it just a little bit more balanced especially if you are using has retinol or anything of that sort now with vitamin c there is a little bit of love-hate relationship and you really want to ensure that what form of vitamin c you're going to be using with your niacinamides over all lacinamides work really well with all other actives and you can easily layer them up with different acid sand actives let's start off the comparison by talking about the price quantity and the availability the derma blend asymmetric serum retails for a piece 599 and get about 30 ml of product in there and it's easily available across India on their own website when we talk about the ordinary serum it retails for about five pounds which roughly converts rupees 500 or 550 and again you get about 30 ml of product in there now the ordinary is available on online sites like cult beauty which do ship to India you can however grab these on different Instagram pages authentic ones but it will cost you more than rupees 500 on there now packaging wise both of these come in very similar packaging and both of them have very simple packaging as well now.

What I do like about the dermaco that they have the step the number mentioned on all of their products so you know exactly what order to put the product in and you're not confused about it so this comes out step number two so it comes directly after cleansing your face comparing their claims dermaco  says that it works from active acne scarring and it regulates sebum production and the ordinary claims to regulate sebum production and minimize pores so we do have one similar claim and the others are completely different now let's do a quick talk through and break down of the ingredient list of both of these products so we can talk about the good bad and the ugly and see how similar or different they are to one another now ideally, any ingredient list should be in descending order so the volume of the ingredient that does occupy the most amount in a product should be on top and the lowest should be on bottom India doesn't sadly have that law yet where you need to disclose it in that way but we're gonna just wish that the ingredient list that thedermaco has specified is in descending order and we're to follow the ingredient list that they have mentioned starting off with the dermaco at the first ingredient in there is purified water which of course is a base it's just a bulking agent and what just makes up most of the product the next ingredient is niacinamide or the activities that we want to be in their vitamin b3 then we have propylene glycol which is a humectant the solvent emollient and a preservative next up on the list.

We have glycerine which again is another humectant on the fifth number we have zinc PCA which is an amalgamation of zinc and lpcazinc normalizes your sebum and it limits bad bacteria and alpaca which is pyrrolidone carboxylic the acid helps in hydration of the skin on the sixth number we have diphthaleneglycol nonethylene ether which is a solvent then we have phenoxyethanol which is a preservative and a stabilizer however it can react with eczema or with sensitive skin then we have hydroxyethylcellulose which is a thickener so it just gives body to the product another thickener we have on the list is xantham gum it also is a stabilizer on the 10th number we have citric acid which is an antioxidant and an exfoliator it's an aha so it evens out your skin 11th on the list is the perfume which is basically fragrance then we have diazo denial urea which is a formaldehyde-releasing preservative on the 11th number we have ethyl glycerine which is a skin conditioner it's antimicrobial and a preservative on14th number we have sodium gluconate which is a neutralizing agent.

It's a regulator and a humectant it also acts as a preservative and last on the list we have iodopropylene body carbonate which is a preservative now let's talk about the ingredients which are not so good and which makes the product very different from the ordinary one these are ingredients which can potentially harm your skin the first one has to be propylene glycol which is a skin irritant even if it's used at two percent and it's pretty high up on the list so we don't really know the exact percentage but it can be a potential skin irritant then we, of course, have a perfume which a lot of people have issues with personally for me perfumes haven't still reacted with my skin but a lot of people say that perfume show their effect in the long run so if your skin is supremely sensitive you might want to stay away from this one as it does have perfume in there the third questionable ingredient.

We have in there is diazolidine urea which is a formaldehyde releasing preservative now it is known that formaldehyde can lead to a lot of skin allergies and skin issues and is not good for people of eczema or very sensitive skin so again if you have eczema sensitive skin or even if you have normal skin and you are worried about formaldehyde as an ingredient then again this product is going to be a no-no for you and the last ingredient  on the questionable list as well as in the actual ingredient list is iod propylene but hydrocortamate which again is a preservative now it said that the usage of this should be under 0.1 or it can lead to allergies now I don't know the actual percentage of the preservative used in this product but even at 0.1.

It can be irritant to sensitive skin types or even normal skin types the dermaco serum is formulated without parabens and silicone so now let's move on to the ordinary niacinamide serum and the first ingredient again is aqua which is the base of the product the second ingredient we have in there is niacinamide or the vitamin b3 the third ingredient in there is propyleneglycol which is a humectant and a preservative fourth on the list we have zinc PCA again.

 I've already talked about how zinc normalizes serum and limits bacteria the fifth ingredient we have is a dimethyl isosorbide which is a solvent and it makes active ingredients function better sixth up on our list we have Tamarindus Indica seed gum which is an emulsifier and the stabilizer seventh on our list we have xanthan gum again the thickening agent and a stabilizer seventh on our list we have iso c tech20 which is an emulsifying agent and a surfactant ninth on our list we have ethoxydethoxyd-glycol which is also known as diethylene glycol mono ethylene ether which is also present in the dermaco reserum, it's a humectant and a solvent tenth on our list we have phenoxyethanol which is a preservative and the last ingredient.

We have here is chlorogenic which again is a preservative when we talk about some may ingredients in the ordinary serum the first one has to be phenoxyethanol which is a preservative but its uses should be limited to about one percent and the second one we have chlorofencin which again is a preservative and unleavened products the usage should be only 0.3 and not more then that as it can be an irritant now the ordinary one only claims to be fragrance free but because we can't see parabens or silicones in the product I would say that they're also free of parabens and silicones so when we put the two ingredients side by side i do have to say that the ordinary ingredient list does look much more cleaner less ingredients and less in skin irritants as well because the derma co-1has quite a few skin in the rinse and more worse skin irritants than the ordinary one so if you have sensitive skin or if you're sensitive to perfume then I would suggest you stick to the ordinary and not to the dermaco one now.

Let's talk about my experience I'm going to take you through my day 1 and day 30 and how my opinions formulated and what I felt and everything so you can see how these products actually work on my skin and if there was any difference or not and then we will sum up everything for you guys so today is the29th of august and I will start my experiment from today and we will continue this for two weeks and by the end of two weeks we will see if there's any difference on my skin or difference in the way these products perform.

So that we can make out you know if they are dupes or not now I do have to say we are starting with rather good skin. I don't feel like there's a lot i need to work on my skin for I do have a couple of acne scars on both sides of my face so that is perfect for this experiment actually because we will be able to see if the niacinamide serums actually help with the acne scars I also have dry patches on my jawline for some reason right now and also on the corners of my nose again perfect for this experiment so on my right side I will be using the dermaco and on my left side i will be using the ordinary and I'm so excited for this experiment the direction of using both of these is pretty similar use am and pm and just pat it into the skin use three to five drops and that's that so I just unboxed my dermaco serum and sadly the pump of this one is slightly MA manufactured the glass is in the pump area so I cannot squeeze it So I'm just going to try and push it down and you know make it usable.

We are back on track after that little speed breaker so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna take a couple of drops of this one on my right hand not on my left one because on my left i'm gonna take the ordinary one so I've taken about three drops and i'm just gonna pat this into my skin now they said to massage it into the skin but I like to pack my products in and here we have the ordinary serum and again i'm just going to take a couple of drops of this one on my left hand this time

So I'm just taking a little bit of that and again I'm just going to start putting this into my skin so both of these rums are nicely applied and absorbed into the skin and I would be doing this am and pm for the next two weeks it's going to be exciting to see how these products perform on my skin but I have to tell you a couple of differences right off the bat what I noticed so the dermaco 1 does have added fragrance to it and the color is completely clear while the ordinary one does not have any added fragrance and is slightly cloudy when compared to the dermaco l one now the ordinary one does recommend to top it off with a very thick and heavy and emollient moisturizer so that's what I would be doing I'm gonna keep all of the other products in my routine pretty simple and non-active way so that I can see how the niacinamide works and just you know see the difference and feel the difference on my skin so yeah I will see you at the end of two weeks now I know I said.

I'll be back after two weeks but after two weeks I couldn't really see a huge difference in my skin so I thought I'll try this out for a whole month it's been a whole month today 8th of the march that I've been doing this experiment of half side of the dermaco  and half side of the ordinary one and this is what my skin looks like after a month of trying these niacinamides out now my skin has no skincare on right now this is my bare skin I've just washed it so you could see it in its raw glory that there is but I have to quickly mention that please don't mind these two spots day before yesterday my milia that I have right here decided to burst on its own and now it's healing it's flattened out

It's just healing so we have a spot left right here and i also got a breakout right here and again it's healing and that's the biggest difference that I saw between these two niacinamides I did break out a little on my dermaco.  I side but they took a lot longer in healing the ordinary side heals really quickly and that's again the biggest difference because when it comes to acne scarring and pigmentation

 I still have all of the scarring almost on both sides again i have a little lesser scarring on the ordinary side than I have on the dermaco side so I feel like the dermaco while it is a 10 niacinamide it's slightly slower and delivering what the ordinary delivers now that you've seen my experience with the product I want to quickly mention one thing which is very big corn for the ordinary one not that it's a deal breaker but it is very big corn according to me now when we apply the dermaco serum literally glides onto the skin you can massage it pat it in and just you know play around with it but when you apply the ordinary serum it tends to foam up I think it's because of the surfactant in there it tends to form up so you have to be very gentle you can just swipe it across once or twice if you massage it around it will form up and it's not a very pleasant application it does die down and get absorbed into your skin but application wise i think it's not supremely pleasant so that was a big big big bummer for me and I was just like hmm.

Why though I also did a quick ph test because nitrogen is pretty balanced on the ph scale but for something to be ph balanced for your skin it needs to be slightly acidic because the skin is slightly acidic so that there is no microbial growth going on in there so something shouldn't be too neutral or too alkaline for your skin too because that cannot be good for you so when i tested both of these thankfully both of them came out to be more acidic in nature so it's great for your skin i think that happened because of zinc being in there as zinc is slightly towards acidic in the ph level also thedermaco one has to have citric acid in there which is an aha which would again make it more acidic in nature than the ordinary one now the other thing I want to quickly talk about a texture and fragrance I've already mentioned that the ordinary serum is slightly thicker and cloudier than the dermaco one so if you like a lighter and thinner serum you're gonna like the dermaco one more fragrance wise dermaco does have a mild fragrance in there it's not supremely overpowering but yes there is perfume in there and perfume can include a lot more ingredients than mentioned on the packaging itself because perfume in itself can have about 130 other ingredients so yeah that's a little bummer over all.

If you talk about the performance I did feel that the ordinary does outperform the dermaco one it's quicker and the way it performs on the skin is much more visible than the dermaco one in the end if you're going to ask me is it a dupe I would say it's not because for a dupe to be a particular tube there should be some you know one of the parameters that it needs for me the parameter has to be the texture is the same the performance is same or the ingredients are pretty similar except nasal amide and water and zinc. I think the ingredients are not similar at all and the irritants in the dermaco  one are really high so you know there goes the ingredient list when we talk about the texture again the texture is pretty different.

While the ordinary is thicker and cloudier the dermaco one is lighter and clearer so there goes texture and the last one performance the time that the ordinary takes is much lesser than dermaco so there goes performance so for me according to me, it's not a dupe and again if you just want a good niacinamide serum and you don't really care about the speed you.

You can do with it taking more days then, of course, you can definitely go for dermaco because I also get the availability of dermaco is easier in India but personally I wasn't a huge fan of thedermaco one i felt like it's an okay serum.

It didn't really do anything for me however I will definitely continue using the ordinary one and see how it performs for my skin and yes that's gonna be everything for today's review Monday.

 I hope you guys enjoyed this and hope you guys enjoyed this new format as well do let me know if you like to see more comparative reviews like these i would love to do it for you guys and I'll see you guys next time till then take care bye