Simple and Catrice are popular cosmetic and skincare houses offering reliable daily performance through thoughtful formulations. The British line, founded in 1960 and owned by Unilever PLC since 2011, features gentle moisturizers, makeup removers, cleansers, and toners with niacinamide and glycerin that suit oily skin and acne-prone skin best. Meanwhile, the German brand, founded in 2004 and owned by cosnova, is beloved for its refined eye products and advanced formulas tailored for combination, oily, and normal skin types. While both brands deliver targeted solutions for specific concerns, they differ in their foundational heritage, core ingredient focus, and ideal skin profiles.
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 Catrice 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 full range of everyday products like cleansers, moisturizers, and makeup removers, whereas Catrice only features a single eye product. Additionally, the products on this page help hydrate the skin and reduce pigmentation using key ingredients like glycerin and niacinamide.
What is the difference between Simple and Catrice?
Simple offers a broad range of products such as cleansers, moisturizers, and makeup removers that fit oily, acne-prone, and sensitive skin best, while Catrice features a single eye product on this page. Glycerin helps maintain skin hydration across the products on this page.
Simple offers budget-friendly moisturizers among the products on this page, whereas Catrice does not provide affordable pricing information on this page.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or Catrice?
Simple features products on this page that shoppers often note to sometimes cause breakouts, while Catrice lists no breakout reviews for its single eye product.
When was each brand founded and which companies own them?
Simple was founded in 1960 in the United Kingdom and is owned by Unilever PLC. Catrice was founded in 2004 in Germany and is owned by cosnova.
How do the Lovi fit levels for sensitive skin compare between Simple and Catrice products?
Simple features multiple products on this page with a High Lovi fit level for sensitive skin, such as Kind to Skin Soothing Facial Toner and Micellar Cleansing Water, whereas Catrice offers only the Under Eye Brightener, which also has a High Lovi fit level for sensitive skin.
Do any of the products from Simple or Catrice contain fragrance?
Every product on this page from both Simple and Catrice lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
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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.
