Simple and Catrice are distinct beauty lines originating from Europe. Simple features gentle moisturizers, makeup removers, cleansers, and toners with niacinamide and glycerin, while the brand is known for suiting acne-prone and mature skin best. Meanwhile, Catrice delivers refined eye products and advanced formulas tailored for combination, oily, and normal skin. These two brands differ primarily in their ingredient focus and targeted skin types, allowing both to offer reliable daily performance.
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 Catrice 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 full range of skincare products like cleansers, moisturizers, and toners, whereas Catrice only features an under eye brightener. Simple products feature key ingredients like niacinamide and glycerin to support hydration and skin tone.
What is the difference between Simple and Catrice?
Simple offers a broad range of fragrance-free cleansers, makeup removers, and moisturizers for various skin types with key ingredients like niacinamide and glycerin, while Catrice features only a single eye product on this page. Niacinamide helps reduce cutaneous pigmentation and skin aging.
Simple offers lightweight, value-friendly moisturizers on this page, while Catrice does not feature affordable moisturizers or full skincare lines here. Glycerin helps maintain skin hydration.
Simple features fragrance-free products on this page, but reviews note that the products on this page may cause breakouts or irritations. Catrice lists no breakout or irritation issues in its reviews.
When and where were Simple and Catrice founded, and who owns them?
Simple was founded in 1960 in the United Kingdom and is owned by Unilever PLC. Catrice was founded in 2004 in Germany and is owned by cosnova.
Do any products from Simple or Catrice contain fragrance in their ingredients?
Every product on this page from both Simple and Catrice lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
What do reviewers commonly say about Simple's products?
Reviewers mostly mention that Simple offers lightweight, value-friendly moisturizers and gentle, sensitive-skin-friendly makeup removers that work as effective daily cleansers. However, they also note that these products often struggle with heavy makeup and may sometimes cause breakouts or irritations.
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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.
