Simple and A+ are established skincare brands offering gentle moisturizers and thoughtfully calibrated formulas designed to support daily moisture balance. The British line is known for cleansers, makeup removers, toners, and moisturizers enriched with niacinamide and glycerin that suit acne-prone and oily skin best, while the Indian brand is widely beloved for mild compositions that suit sensitive skin best. The core difference lies in their formulations, as the former utilizes active ingredients like niacinamide to reduce hyperpigmentation and glycerin to improve barrier function, whereas the latter reliably supports comfort through simpler soothing care.
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 A+ 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, offering a wide range of popular cleansers, makeup removers, and moisturizers featuring key ingredients like niacinamide and glycerin. Glycerin helps improve skin hydration, while niacinamide may help reduce skin pigmentation.
Simple offers a broad selection of fragrance-free cleansers, makeup removers, toners, and moisturizers featuring niacinamide and glycerin, while A+ features just one moisturizer on this page. Lovi rates Simple with a High fit for sensitive skin on several products and a Superior fit for mature skin with its toner, whereas A+ shows Average to Low fits across skin types.
Simple offers a wider variety of moisturizers on the products on this page, and reviewers frequently mention them as lightweight and value-friendly. Glycerin helps maintain skin hydration.
Simple features lightweight, value-friendly moisturizers among the products on this page, while A+ does not provide pricing or affordability details in its page facts.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or A+?
Simple offers products that reviewers note may sometimes cause breakouts or irritations, while the single A+ moisturizer on this page has no breakout feedback reported.
Which brand has more products listed on the page, Simple or A+?
Simple has more products on this page than A+, offering a full range of cleansers, makeup removers, toners, and moisturizers.
Do any products from either Simple or A+ contain fragrance?
Every product on this page from both Simple and A+ lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
When was the company behind Simple founded, and where is it from?
Simple is owned by Unilever PLC and was founded in the United Kingdom in 1960.
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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.
