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 the better choice for everyday skincare because the products on this page offer reliable, fragrance-free hydration and cleansing, whereas ELIDEL features a more specialized moisturizer with lower fit levels for most skin types.
What is the difference between Simple and ELIDEL?
Simple offers a broad range of fragrance-free cleansers, toners, and moisturizers featuring niacinamide and glycerin that generally fit sensitive, dry, and acne-prone skin at Average to High levels. In contrast, ELIDEL features a single pimecrolimus moisturizer that achieves only Average to Caution fit levels for most skin types. Glycerin helps maintain skin hydration.
Simple offers several moisturizers with average Lovi fits across most skin types, whereas ELIDEL's pimecrolimus moisturizer shows lower fits and requires caution for oily skin. Glycerin helps provide hydration in Simple's formulas.
Simple offers value-friendly moisturizers, whereas information on the affordability of ELIDEL is not available on this page.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or ELIDEL?
Simple is unlikely to cause as many breakouts as ELIDEL, as the products on this page for Simple fit acne-prone skin with an Average level while ELIDEL is rated Low.
Which brand has products that are better suited for sensitive skin, Simple or ELIDEL?
Simple has products that are better suited for sensitive skin, with items like its Kind to Skin Soothing Facial Toner achieving a High fit level with Lovi. In contrast, ELIDEL only reaches an Average fit for sensitive skin.
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.
Which company 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 much later in Switzerland in 2001.
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.
