Simple and facefacts are two British skincare brands offering distinct approaches to daily care. Simple is known for gentle moisturizers, makeup removers, cleansers, and toners featuring niacinamide and glycerin, which suit oily and acne-prone skin best. Conversely, facefacts is known for nourishing cleansers and targeted formulas that suit dry, normal, and combination skin. While both brands provide effective daily options, they differ primarily in their ingredient profiles, product types, and ideal skin types.
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 is better overall because the products on this page offer a wide variety of high and superior Lovi fit levels for many skin types, while facefacts only features a single cleanser with limited high fits. Simple also includes key ingredients like niacinamide and glycerin, which help support skin barrier function and hydration.
What is the difference between Simple and facefacts?
Simple features a wide range of products including micellar waters, cleansers, and moisturizers that fit oily, acne-prone, and mature skin best, whereas facefacts offers just a hydrating gentle cleanser on this page. Both brands provide fragrance-free options containing ingredients like glycerin, which helps hydrate the skin.
Face facts has a hydrating gentle cleanser with a high Lovi fit for sensitive skin, whereas the cleanser on the Simple page only achieves an average or low fit for sensitive skin. Glycerin helps provide moisture and skin barrier support for these products.
The products on this page for Simple are known for being value-friendly, while pricing details for facefacts are not mentioned.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or facefacts?
Face facts has only one product on the page, the Hydrating Gentle Cleanser, which has a High fit for acne-prone skin, whereas Simple's products on this page have Average fits for acne-prone skin and reviewers often note that Simple causes breakouts or irritations.
Between Simple and facefacts, which brand was founded earlier and in what year?
Simple was founded earlier in 1960 in the United Kingdom, whereas facefacts was founded in 2019.
Do any of the products from Simple or facefacts contain fragrance?
Every product on this page from both Simple and facefacts lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
What are the key ingredients found across the Simple products?
The key ingredients across the products on this page for Simple are niacinamide and glycerin. Glycerin helps provide moisture to the skin, while niacinamide may help reduce cutaneous pigmentation and skin aging.
Saccharide isomerate · Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, 2023
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.
