Simple and Hanhoo are accessible skincare lines offering thoughtful daily care. The British brand features gentle moisturizers, makeup removers, cleansers, and toners with niacinamide and glycerin, while the latter is known for targeted serums and blemish patches. Both suit acne-prone skin and skin with dark spots, though the former also caters to mature skin, and the latter additionally suits sensitive, dry, and combination skin. They differ as the former relies on liquid formulations for hydration and hyperpigmentation, while the latter focuses on specialized patches 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 Hanhoo products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Simple offers a much wider range of everyday cleansers, toners, and moisturizers that generally get High or Average Lovi fit across most skin types, whereas Hanhoo mainly features specialty patches. Simple uses key ingredients like niacinamide and glycerin, which helps hydrate skin and may improve pigmentation.
Simple offers a broad range of fragrance-free cleansers, moisturizers, and makeup removers that feature ingredients like glycerin and niacinamide, whereas Hanhoo focuses on targeted spot care like blemish and pore patches. Glycerin helps maintain skin hydration, and niacinamide may help reduce skin pigmentation and aging signs. Lovi rates Simple as having an average to high fit across many skin types.
Simple offers lightweight and value-friendly moisturizers, while Hanhoo is focused mainly on targeted patches. Lovi rates the products on this page across both brands for various skin types, but pricing specifics are not detailed here.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or Hanhoo?
Simple features products on this page that some reviewers report as causing breakouts or irritations. Niacinamide helps control skin aging and pigmentation.
Which brand offers a wider variety of product types like cleansers and moisturizers, Simple or Hanhoo?
Simple offers a much wider variety of product types on this page, including cleansers, toners, makeup removers, and moisturizers, whereas Hanhoo only features blemish and pore patches. Glycerin helps provide hydration across Simple's products.
Do either Simple or Hanhoo products contain added fragrance?
Every product on this page from both Simple and Hanhoo lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
How do the Lovi fit levels for acne-prone skin compare between Simple's Micellar Cleansing Water and Hanhoo's Blemish Patch?
Simple's Micellar Cleansing Water has an Average Lovi fit for acne-prone skin, while Hanhoo's Blemish Patch earns a High Lovi fit for the same skin type.
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.
