Simple and Blue Lizard are two accessible skincare lines celebrated for their reliable, skin-friendly formulations. Simple offers gentle moisturizers, makeup removers, cleansers, and toners featuring niacinamide and glycerin, which suit oily and acne-prone skin best by hydrating the barrier and reducing hyperpigmentation. Conversely, the second brand focuses on mineral sunscreens that suit sensitive skin best through protective and soothing formulas. While both cater to reactive complexions, they differ in their core offerings, as one specializes in daily maintenance essentials and the other in sun protection.
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 Blue Lizard products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Simple and Blue Lizard both suit different needs, as Simple provides value-friendly moisturizers and makeup removers while Blue Lizard offers the Sensitive Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50+ with a Superior Lovi fit for sensitive and dry sensitive skin. Glycerin helps maintain skin hydration, and niacinamide may help reduce cutaneous pigmentation.
What is the difference between Simple and Blue Lizard?
Simple offers a wide range of fragrance-free cleansers, toners, and moisturizers featuring niacinamide and glycerin that Lovi rates as average or high for most skin types, whereas Blue Lizard provides a sensitive mineral sunscreen SPF 50+ that Lovi rates as superior for sensitive and dry sensitive skin. Glycerin helps maintain skin hydration, and niacinamide may help reduce cutaneous pigmentation.
Simple features value-friendly moisturizers on this page, while Blue Lizard offers no pricing or affordability details in its product lineup.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or Blue Lizard?
Simple features the products on this page with an Average fit level for acne-prone skin, while Blue Lizard offers Sensitive Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50+ with a High fit level for acne-prone skin. Both brands are fragrance-free, but Simple reviewers note that its products sometimes cause breakouts or irritations.
When was each skincare company founded and who currently owns them?
Simple was founded in the United Kingdom in 1960 and has been owned by Unilever PLC since 2011. Blue Lizard was founded in 1995 and is currently owned by Hildred Capital Management.
Do any products from Simple or Blue Lizard contain added fragrances?
Every product from Simple and Blue Lizard on this page lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
Which brand offers products specifically formulated as sunscreens versus cleansers and moisturizers?
Blue Lizard offers sunscreens like Sensitive Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50+, which has a Superior Lovi fit level for sensitive and dry sensitive skin, whereas Simple features cleansers, makeup removers, and moisturizers.
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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.
