Simple and facefacts are British skincare brands offering gentle everyday care tailored to different complexions. Simple is known for its moisturizers, makeup removers, cleansers, and toners crafted with niacinamide and glycerin, which suit acne-prone skin and skin with dark spots best. facefacts is known for its nourishing cleansers and targeted formulas that suit dry, normal, and combination skin best. The brands differ primarily in their core ingredient profiles and ideal skin types, with both providing distinct options for targeted concerns.
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 wider range of products with higher Lovi fit levels across multiple skin types. Glycerin helps provide moisture for dry skin, and niacinamide may help with skin pigmentation.
What is the difference between Simple and facefacts?
Simple offers a broad range of fragrance-free products featuring ingredients like niacinamide and glycerin, achieving a Superior fit for mature skin with its toner, while facefacts provides a single fragrance-free gentle cleanser on this page that has a High fit for dry and sensitive skin.
For cleansing, Simple offers options like its Refreshing Facial Wash, which has an Average fit for acne-prone, oily, and sensitive skin, while facefacts features its Hydrating Gentle Cleanser, which has a High fit for dry, sensitive, acne-prone, dry sensitive, and mature skin. Glycerin, found in Simple products, helps support skin hydration.
Simple features lightweight, value-friendly moisturizers on this page, while the page has no pricing information for facefacts to make a comparison.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or facefacts?
Simple features reviewers mentioning that it causes breakouts or irritations, while facefacts has no such user feedback reported on this page. Niacinamide helps improve skin clarity, and glycerin helps keep skin hydrated.
Which brand has been established for a longer time, Simple or facefacts?
Simple has been established for a longer time, as it was founded in the United Kingdom in 1960, whereas facefacts was founded in the United Kingdom in 2019.
Do any products from Simple or facefacts contain fragrance?
Every product on this page from both Simple and facefacts lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
Which skin types does the Simple Micellar Cleansing Water have a High fit level for?
Lovi finds that the Simple Micellar Cleansing Water has a High fit level for sensitive, oily, and dry skin.
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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.
