Simple vs ILIA Beauty
Simple and ILIA Beauty are distinct skincare lines originating from the United Kingdom and Canada, respectively. Simple is known for gentle moisturizers, makeup removers, cleansers, and toners featuring niacinamide and glycerin, which suit oily and acne-prone skin best. Conversely, ILIA Beauty is recognized for thoughtful moisturizers with nourishing formulas that suit dry, normal, and combination skin best. While both brands offer reliable daily care, they differ primarily in their ingredient profiles and targeted skin types.
Simple is a British skincare brand founded in 1960 and owned by Unilever PLC since 2011.
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ILIA Beauty is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2011 and owned by Famille C since 2022.
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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.
Questions and answers
Simple or ILIA Beauty: which is better?
Simple is the better choice for a wider range of daily skincare needs, as the products on this page offer reliable options like high-fit makeup removers and toners, whereas ILIA Beauty features only a single moisturizer. Glycerin in Simple's formulas helps maintain skin hydration.
What is the difference between Simple and ILIA Beauty?
Simple offers a broad selection of cleansers, makeup removers, toners, and moisturizers featuring key ingredients like niacinamide and glycerin, while ILIA Beauty is represented on this page by a single moisturizer, The Base Face Milk. Glycerin helps improve skin hydration.
Simple or ILIA Beauty: which moisturizer is better?
Simple offers more choices with its value-friendly and lightweight moisturizers, whereas the products on this page for ILIA Beauty feature just one option, The Base Face Milk, which achieves an Average Lovi fit across skin types.
Which is more affordable, Simple or ILIA Beauty?
Simple offers value-friendly moisturizers on the products on this page, whereas pricing details for ILIA Beauty are not featured. Glycerin helps maintain skin moisture, and studies show it supports hydration.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or ILIA Beauty?
Simple features products on this page that shoppers often note to sometimes cause breakouts or irritations, while ILIA Beauty has no such breakout complaints on this page. Lovi rates Simple's products as having an average fit for acne-prone skin.
How do the founding years and current parent companies of Simple and ILIA Beauty compare?
Simple was founded in the United Kingdom in 1960 and has been owned by Unilever PLC since 2011, whereas ILIA Beauty was founded in Canada in 2011 and is owned by Famille C since 2022.
Which products from Simple and ILIA Beauty feature no fragrance in their ingredients?
Every product on this page from Simple and ILIA Beauty lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
What skin types does Simple fit best according to its brand-focused routines?
According to its brand-focused routines, Simple fits oily skin, acne-prone skin, and mature skin best.
Research behind their key ingredients
The effect of niacinamide on reducing cutaneous pigmentation and suppression of melanosome transfer
Apigenin inhibits UVA-induced cytotoxicity in vitro and prevents signs of skin aging in vivo
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.
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Cosmetic chemist, cosmetologist, aesthetic products developer
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PhD in computer science, 3x US patent holder, ex-Google, ex-Yandex
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Dr. Sofía Perea Pérez, MD, MSc
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Aesthetic medicine practitioner, MSc in Longevity and Anti-Aging Medicine
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Specialist dermatologist, MBBS, MD, IFAAD
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Elina Nazarenko, MD
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Victoria Derkova, MS
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Cosmetic chemist, cosmetic development technologist
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