Simple and ILIA Beauty are distinct skincare lines created to support daily routines through gentle, effective care. The British brand is known for moisturizers, makeup removers, cleansers, and toners featuring niacinamide and glycerin, which suit acne-prone skin and skin with dark spots best. Meanwhile, the Canadian brand is widely loved for its thoughtful moisturizers and nourishing formulations that suit dry, normal, and combination skin best. They differ primarily in their core ingredient profiles, targeted skin concerns, and regional heritage.
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 ILIA Beauty products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Simple stands out for its wide variety of products with specific Lovi fit ratings across many skin types, while ILIA Beauty features only a single moisturizer on this page. Reviewers note that Simple offers lightweight, value-friendly moisturizers alongside gentle makeup removers, though some users report breakouts or irritation.
What is the difference between Simple and ILIA Beauty?
Simple offers a broad range of fragrance-free products on this page, featuring options like Kind to Skin Soothing Facial Toner which Lovi rates as Superior for mature skin, whereas ILIA Beauty features only a single moisturizer with an Average fit across all skin types. Simple's products utilize key ingredients like glycerin, which helps maintain skin hydration. Glycerin supports skin hydration.
Simple or ILIA Beauty: which moisturizer is better?
Simple offers a wider range of moisturizers with average Lovi fit levels across skin types, featuring key ingredients like glycerin which helps improve skin hydration, while ILIA Beauty provides only one moisturizer on this page, The Base Face Milk, also showing average fit.
Simple stands out for affordability, with reviewers frequently noting its lightweight and value-friendly moisturizers across the products on this page.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or ILIA Beauty?
Simple features lightweight and value-friendly products on this page, but reviewers often mention that it causes breakouts or irritations. ILIA Beauty has only one product on this page with no specific breakout data reported by reviewers.
Which brand has been established longer, Simple or ILIA Beauty?
Simple has been established longer, having been founded in 1960 in the United Kingdom, whereas ILIA Beauty was founded in 2011 in Canada.
Do any products from either Simple or ILIA Beauty contain fragrance?
Every product on this page from both Simple and ILIA Beauty lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
How many products are listed for ILIA Beauty compared to Simple on this page?
Simple features seven products on this page, whereas ILIA Beauty lists only one product, which is The Base Face Milk.
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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.
