Simple and facefacts are two British skincare brands designed to address diverse complexions through distinct formulations. Simple offers gentle moisturizers, makeup removers, cleansers, and toners enriched with niacinamide and glycerin that suit acne-prone and oily skin best, whereas facefacts provides nourishing cleansers and targeted formulas with ingredients that maintain the natural moisture balance for dry, normal, and combination skin. While the first brand focuses on balanced, skin-loving solutions for specific issues like hyperpigmentation and aging, the second is loved for its everyday cleansing approach.
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 a better choice for mature skin on this page, as its Kind to Skin Soothing Facial Toner achieves a Superior fit there. Glycerin helps maintain skin hydration across the products on this page.
What is the difference between Simple and facefacts?
Simple offers a broad variety of fragrance-free cleansers, makeup removers, toners, and moisturizers that feature niacinamide and glycerin, while facefacts features just a single fragrance-free hydrating gentle cleanser on this page. Lovi rates Simple as having a High fit for sensitive skin with certain products like its toner, and facefacts also achieves a High fit for sensitive skin on its cleanser.
Simple features multiple cleansers with varying Lovi fit levels depending on skin type, whereas facefacts offers the Hydrating Gentle Cleanser, which has a High fit for dry, sensitive, acne-prone, dry sensitive, and mature skin.
Which is more affordable, Simple or facefacts?
Simple offers value-friendly moisturizers among the products on this page, while pricing details for facefacts are not mentioned.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or facefacts?
Simple offers more choices, but reviewers often mention that its products can cause breakouts or irritations. Meanwhile, facefacts features only one cleanser on this page, which has a High Lovi fit for acne-prone skin and no breakout reports.
Which brand was founded earlier and in what year?
Simple was founded earlier in 1960, while facefacts was founded in 2019.
Do either of the brands include fragrance in their products?
Neither brand includes fragrance in the products on this page, as every item lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
What are the key ingredients found across Simple products?
The key ingredients found across the products on this page for Simple are Niacinamide and Glycerin.
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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.
