Simple and ELIDEL are distinct skincare brands offering gentle daily preparations for various complexions. The British brand is known for its cleansers, toners, and moisturizers featuring niacinamide and glycerin, which suit acne-prone skin and dark spots best. Conversely, the Swiss brand is celebrated for soothing formulas and moisturizers that suit sensitive, dry skin best. They differ primarily in their core ingredients and target skin types, providing tailored options for individual needs.
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 ELIDEL products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Simple is a better fit for most skin types on this page, earning High fit levels for sensitive and acne-prone skin with products containing niacinamide and glycerin. Glycerin helps maintain skin hydration.
Simple offers a broad range of fragrance-free cleansers, toners, and moisturizers featuring niacinamide and glycerin that fit sensitive and acne-prone skin best, whereas ELIDEL features a single pimecrolimus moisturizer with limited skin type fits.
Simple offers better-fitting moisturizers for most skin types, as its products achieve average Lovi fit levels across dry, mature, and sensitive skin. In contrast, ELIDEL's Pimecrolimus moisturizer rates lower, showing low or caution fit levels for many skin types.
Which is more affordable, Simple or ELIDEL?
Simple offers budget-friendly moisturizers, while ELIDEL does not have pricing information on this page.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or ELIDEL?
Simple features products on this page that are generally well-tolerated, though reviewers note that some items may occasionally cause breakouts or irritations. In comparison, ELIDEL includes a pimecrolimus moisturizer that shows a low fit level for acne-prone skin.
Which brand has been around longer, Simple or ELIDEL?
Simple has been around longer, having been founded in the United Kingdom in 1960, whereas ELIDEL was founded in Switzerland in 2001.
Do any products from Simple or ELIDEL contain fragrance?
Every product on this page from both Simple and ELIDEL lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
How does the Lovi fit level for dry skin compare between Simple and ELIDEL moisturizers?
Simple moisturizers have an Average Lovi fit level for dry skin, while ELIDEL's Pimecrolimus moisturizer also shows an Average fit 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.
