Simple and facefacts are British skincare brands offering gentle cleansers, moisturizers, and targeted formulas designed for distinct skin types. The former is known for niacinamide and glycerin infusions that suit acne-prone and oily skin, while the latter is loved for nourishing ingredients that maintain the moisture balance of dry, normal, and combination skin. Both brands differ primarily in their founding years, ownership, and core ingredient philosophies.
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 offers a much wider range of products on this page compared to facefacts, featuring high fits for sensitive and oily skin with key ingredients like niacinamide and glycerin. Glycerin helps improve skin hydration, while niacinamide helps reduce cutaneous pigmentation.
What is the difference between Simple and facefacts?
Simple offers a broad variety of fragrance-free cleansers, makeup removers, and moisturizers featuring niacinamide and glycerin that Lovi rates best for acne-prone, oily, and oily acne-prone skin. In contrast, facefacts features only a single fragrance-free cleanser on this page, which Lovi rates with High fit for dry, sensitive, acne-prone, dry sensitive, and mature skin.
Simple offers more cleanser choices on this page, with the Refreshing Facial Wash giving an Average fit for acne-prone skin and a Low fit for dry skin, while facefacts features the Hydrating Gentle Cleanser, which has a High fit for dry, sensitive, acne-prone, dry sensitive, and mature skin.
Which is more affordable, Simple or facefacts?
Simple offers value-friendly moisturizers, while the page provides no pricing information for facefacts.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or facefacts?
Simple products on this page often cause breakouts according to reviewers, while facefacts has no reported breakout issues.
Which brand was founded earlier, Simple or facefacts?
Simple was founded earlier, in 1960 in the United Kingdom, while facefacts was founded in 2019 in the United Kingdom.
Do products from both Simple and 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 Hydrating Light Moisturiser best suit according to its Lovi fit levels?
According to its Lovi fit levels, the Simple Hydrating Light Moisturiser has an Average fit for all listed skin types including dry, mature, sensitive, and oily skin, meaning it does not have a best-suited category among them.
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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.
