Simple and VR are skincare brands offering thoughtful daily formulas designed for distinct complexions. Simple provides gentle moisturizers, makeup removers, cleansers, and toners featuring niacinamide and glycerin that suit oily and acne-prone skin best, while VR delivers sensory moisturizers tailored for combination, sensitive, and dry skin. Both labels refine their offerings for specific concerns, yet they differ primarily in their ingredient profiles 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 VR 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 range of fragrance-free cleansers, makeup removers, and moisturizers featuring key ingredients like niacinamide and glycerin, which help support skin health. In contrast, VR only lists a single moisturizer, PDRN Cream, offering fewer overall options.
Simple offers a broad range of fragrance-free products on this page, fitting oily skin and acne-prone skin best, whereas VR features only the PDRN CREAM moisturizer with a high Lovi fit for sensitive skin. Glycerin helps maintain skin hydration in the products on this page.
Simple offers lightweight, value-friendly moisturizers on this page that help hydrate the skin, with glycerin helping provide moisture. Meanwhile, the VR moisturizer PDRN CREAM is rated Average for dry skin. Glycerin helps maintain skin hydration.
Simple features lightweight, value-friendly moisturizers among the products on this page, whereas VR does not list pricing or value details on this page.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or VR?
Simple offers products on this page with a High to Average fit for acne-prone skin, while VR features a moisturizer with an Average fit for acne-prone skin, though Simple reviewers sometimes note that its products may cause breakouts or irritations.
Which brand offers more products that are fragrance-free, Simple or VR?
Simple offers more products on this page, and every single one of them lists no fragrance in its ingredients. VR also lists no fragrance for its products on this page, but it features only one product.
How do the founding years and corporate ownership of Simple and VR compare?
Simple was founded in 1960 in the United Kingdom and has been owned by Unilever PLC since 2011, whereas VR was founded more recently in 2018 as an independent company.
Which brand has a wider variety of product types listed, such as cleansers, toners, and moisturizers?
Simple has a wider variety of product types listed on this page, offering makeup removers, moisturizers, cleansers, and a toner.
5-ceramide complex · Skin Pharmacology and Physiology, 2026
Behind this comparison
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.
