Simple and Luna Nectar are distinct skincare brands originating from Britain and Canada, respectively. The British brand is known for gentle moisturizers, makeup removers, cleansers, and toners featuring niacinamide and glycerin that suit oily and acne-prone skin best. Conversely, the Canadian brand is cherished for nutrient-rich serums and meticulously blended formulas that suit sensitive, dry, and mature skin best. While both offer targeted solutions, they differ fundamentally in their formulations 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 Luna Nectar products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Simple stands out for having a much larger selection of fragrance-free products on this page, including high-fit options for sensitive skin like its Kind to Skin Soothing Facial Toner. Glycerin helps provide moisture across the products on this page.
What is the difference between Simple and Luna Nectar?
Simple offers a larger variety of products on this page spanning cleansers, toners, makeup removers, and moisturizers featuring niacinamide and glycerin, while Luna Nectar features a single serum. Simple provides high to average Lovi fit levels for sensitive and dry skin types across its range, whereas Luna Nectar achieves a high Lovi fit for dry and dry sensitive skin with its serum.
Simple offers lightweight, value-friendly moisturizers, while Luna Nectar has no affordability details listed on this page. Simple includes glycerin, which helps hydrate the skin.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or Luna Nectar?
Simple products on this page are sometimes noted by reviewers for causing breakouts or irritations, while Luna Nectar has no such mentions.
Do any products from Simple or Luna Nectar contain added fragrance?
Every product on this page from both Simple and Luna Nectar lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
Which brand has been around longer, Simple or Luna Nectar?
Simple has been around longer, having been founded in 1960 in the United Kingdom, whereas Luna Nectar was founded in 2017 in Canada.
How does the Lovi fit level for dry skin compare between Simple's Futurize serum and Luna Nectar's moisturizers?
Simple features products on this page with varying Lovi fit levels for dry skin, such as an Average fit for its moisturizers, while Luna Nectar has no moisturizers on this page. However, Luna Nectar's Futurize serum achieves a High fit level for dry skin.
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.
