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 the better choice on this page because it offers a much wider selection of fragrance-free products for different skin types, whereas facefacts only lists a single cleanser. Furthermore, glycerin helps improve skin hydration.
What is the difference between Simple and facefacts?
Simple offers a broad variety of fragrance-free cleansers, makeup removers, and moisturizers with High to Superior Lovi fits for sensitive skin, while facefacts features only a single gentle cleanser on this page. Glycerin helps maintain skin moisture across the products on this page.
Simple Refreshing Facial Wash has a Low Lovi fit for dry and dry sensitive skin, whereas facefacts Hydrating Gentle Cleanser has a High fit for those skin types.
Which is more affordable, Simple or facefacts?
Simple features value-friendly moisturizers on this page, while pricing details for facefacts are not provided.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or facefacts?
Simple features products on this page that some reviewers note can cause breakouts or irritations, while facefacts has too few reviews on this page to judge.
Which brand is older, Simple or facefacts?
Simple is the older brand, having been founded in the United Kingdom in 1960, whereas facefacts was established in 2019.
Do any products from Simple or facefacts contain fragrance?
No, every product from Simple and facefacts on this page lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
What are the key ingredients shared across Simple products?
The key ingredients across the products on this page for Simple are niacinamide and glycerin. Niacinamide may help reduce cutaneous pigmentation.
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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.
