Simple and OPTASE are gentle skincare brands known for makeup removers, cleansers, and soothing formulas. The British brand incorporates niacinamide and glycerin to suit oily and acne-prone skin best, while the latter relies on balanced, restorative qualities for sensitive, dry, and irritated skin. Although both offer reliable daily routines, they differ in key ingredients and target skin concerns.
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 OPTASE products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Simple is the better choice on this page because it offers a wide variety of gentle, fragrance-free products that Lovi rates as High for sensitive skin, whereas OPTASE only features a single makeup remover with lower compatibility.
What is the difference between Simple and OPTASE?
Simple offers a broad range of fragrance-free cleansers, moisturizers, and makeup removers that fit oily skin, acne-prone skin, and skin with dark spots best, whereas OPTASE features only a sensitive-eye makeup remover. Glycerin helps the products on this page hydrate the skin.
Simple features lightweight, value-friendly moisturizers on this page, whereas OPTASE does not offer products in that category. Glycerin helps maintain skin hydration across the products on this page.
Simple products are frequently noted by reviewers to cause breakouts or irritations, while OPTASE features only an eye makeup remover on this page and has no brand data on breakouts.
Which company has been in business longer, Simple or OPTASE?
Simple has been in business longer, having been founded in 1960 in the United Kingdom, whereas OPTASE was founded in 2016.
Do any products from Simple or OPTASE contain fragrance?
Every product on this page from both Simple and OPTASE lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
How does the Lovi fit level for sensitive skin compare between Simple's Micellar Cleansing Water and OPTASE's LIFE SENSITIVE EYE MAKEUP REMOVER?
Simple's Micellar Cleansing Water has a High Lovi fit level for sensitive skin. OPTASE's LIFE SENSITIVE EYE MAKEUP REMOVER also has a High fit level for sensitive skin.
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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.
