Simple vs ILIA Beauty
Simple and ILIA Beauty are distinct skincare lines created to support daily routines with care. The British brand is known for gentle moisturizers, makeup removers, cleansers, and toners featuring niacinamide and glycerin, which suit acne-prone and oily acne-prone skin best. Meanwhile, the Canadian brand is widely loved for thoughtful moisturizers and nourishing formulas that suit dry, normal, and combination skin best. While both respect delicate barriers, they differ in their specific ingredient profiles and ideal skin types.
Simple is a British skincare brand founded in 1960 and owned by Unilever PLC since 2011.
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ILIA Beauty is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2011 and owned by Famille C since 2022.
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This page compares some of the most popular Simple and ILIA Beauty products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Popular Simple vs ILIA Beauty products
Questions and answers
Simple or ILIA Beauty: which is better?
Simple is the better choice on this page because it offers a wide selection of fragrance-free cleansers, makeup removers, and moisturizers featuring key ingredients like glycerin. Glycerin helps improve skin hydration and barrier function.
What is the difference between Simple and ILIA Beauty?
Simple offers a broad variety of fragrance-free cleansers, makeup removers, and moisturizers that Lovi rates best for acne-prone, oily, and oily acne-prone skin, whereas ILIA Beauty features just one moisturizer on this page. Glycerin helps maintain skin hydration across the products on this page.
Simple or ILIA Beauty: which moisturizer is better?
Simple offers a wider variety of value-friendly moisturizers on this page compared to ILIA Beauty, which features only a single moisturizer. Glycerin helps provide hydration across these products.
Which is more affordable, Simple or ILIA Beauty?
Simple offers lightweight and value-friendly moisturizers on this page, whereas ILIA Beauty features a single moisturizer without price details provided. Glycerin helps maintain skin moisture.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or ILIA Beauty?
Simple products on this page are noted by reviewers to sometimes cause breakouts or irritations, while ILIA Beauty has no such reviewer feedback reported on this page.
When was Simple founded and who currently owns it?
Simple was founded in 1960 in the United Kingdom and is currently owned by Unilever PLC.
Which skincare brand offers more product options on this page, Simple or ILIA Beauty?
Simple offers more product options on this page with seven different items, whereas ILIA Beauty features only one product.
What are the key ingredients found across Simple products?
The products on this page from Simple feature Niacinamide and Glycerin as key ingredients. Glycerin helps improve skin hydration.
Research behind their key ingredients
The effect of niacinamide on reducing cutaneous pigmentation and suppression of melanosome transfer
Apigenin inhibits UVA-induced cytotoxicity in vitro and prevents signs of skin aging in vivo
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.
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Cosmetic chemist, cosmetologist, aesthetic products developer
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PhD in computer science, 3x US patent holder, ex-Google, ex-Yandex
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Dr. Sofía Perea Pérez, MD, MSc
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Aesthetic medicine practitioner, MSc in Longevity and Anti-Aging Medicine
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Specialist dermatologist, MBBS, MD, IFAAD
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Elina Nazarenko, MD
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Dermatology and diagnostic consultant
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Victoria Derkova, MS
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Cosmetic chemist, cosmetic development technologist
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