Simple and VR are skincare collections known for gentle daily care and considered design. The British brand offers moisturizers, makeup removers, cleansers, and toners with niacinamide and glycerin, while the second option is appreciated for sensory moisturizers. The first suits acne-prone and oily acne-prone skin best, whereas both the second and first meet evolving daily needs through distinct formulations.
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 variety of products, including gentle makeup removers and toners with High Lovi fit levels for sensitive skin, whereas VR features only a single cream. Glycerin helps provide hydration across Simple's fragrance-free range.
Simple offers a broad range of fragrance-free cleansers, makeup removers, and moisturizers featuring niacinamide and glycerin, with Lovi fit levels reaching High for sensitive skin, while VR provides only a single PDRN cream moisturizer that achieves a High Lovi fit for sensitive skin.
Simple or VR: which moisturizer is better?
Simple offers a wider variety of moisturizers on this page, which reviewers note are lightweight and value-friendly, whereas VR features only the PDRN Cream. Lovi rates the fit of Simple's moisturizers and VR's PDRN Cream as average for dry skin. Glycerin, a key ingredient in Simple products, helps improve skin hydration.
Simple offers more value-friendly products on this page, whereas pricing details for VR are not specified.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or VR?
Simple features products on this page that sometimes cause breakouts according to reviewers, whereas VR lacks data on breakouts.
How do the founding years and corporate ownerships of Simple and VR compare?
Simple was founded in the United Kingdom in 1960 and has been owned by Unilever PLC since 2011, whereas VR was founded in 2018 and is independently owned.
Which brand offers more product options for sensitive skin, Simple or VR?
Simple offers more product options for sensitive skin, with several items receiving a High fit rating on Lovi, whereas VR features only one moisturizer with a High fit for sensitive skin. Glycerin, found across Simple products, helps support skin hydration.
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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.
