Simple and facefacts are two British skincare brands offering distinct approaches to daily care. Simple is known for gentle moisturizers, makeup removers, cleansers, and toners featuring niacinamide and glycerin, which suit oily and acne-prone skin best. Conversely, facefacts is known for nourishing cleansers and targeted formulas that suit dry, normal, and combination skin. While both brands provide effective daily options, they differ primarily in their ingredient profiles, product types, and ideal skin types.
Simple is a British skincare brand founded in 1960 and owned by Unilever PLC since 2011.
This page compares some of the most popular Simple and facefacts products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Simple has a much broader range of products on this page and achieves High Lovi fit for mature skin with its toner and for oily and acne-prone skin overall, whereas facefacts has only one cleanser listed. Both brands offer fragrance-free formulas with key ingredients like glycerin and niacinamide that help hydrate the skin and reduce pigmentation.
What is the difference between Simple and facefacts?
Simple features a wide range of products including makeup removers, cleansers, toners, and moisturizers with fit levels reaching Superior for mature skin, while facefacts offers a single cleanser on this page with High fit levels for dry, sensitive, acne-prone, and mature skin.
Simple or facefacts: which cleanser is better?
For cleansing, facefacts Hydrating Gentle Cleanser achieves High Lovi fit levels for dry, sensitive, acne-prone, dry sensitive, and mature skin, whereas Simple Refreshing Facial Wash has lower fit levels for dry and dry sensitive skin. Both brands offer fragrance-free cleansers containing glycerin. Glycerin helps improve skin hydration.
Simple features value-friendly moisturizers, while the page does not provide pricing information for facefacts.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or facefacts?
Neither brand has a definitive advantage for causing fewer breakouts because the products on this page have limited acne-prone fit levels, and reviewers note that Simple sometimes causes breakouts or irritations.
Which brand is older, Simple or facefacts?
Simple is older than facefacts, having been founded in the United Kingdom in 1960, whereas facefacts was founded in 2019.
Do any products from either Simple or facefacts contain fragrance?
No, every product on this page from both Simple and facefacts lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
Which skin types does the Simple brand fit best according to its brand-focused routines?
According to its brand-focused routines, Simple fits oily skin, acne-prone skin, and skin with dark spots best.
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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.
