Simple and Hanhoo are accessible skincare brands offering gentle, reliable daily care. Simple is known for its moisturizers, makeup removers, cleansers, and toners featuring niacinamide and glycerin, while the latter brand is widely loved for its targeted serums, blemish patches, and pore patches. The British brand suits acne-prone skin and oily skin best, whereas the second brand suits sensitive, dry, and combination skin best. They differ primarily in their core product types and the specific skin profiles they target.
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 features a broader range of products that Lovi rates as a High fit for sensitive and acne-prone skin, whereas Hanhoo offers targeted options like the Blemish Patch. Glycerin and niacinamide help keep the products on this page hydrating and supportive for the skin barrier.
Simple offers a broad range of fragrance-free daily skincare products like cleansers, moisturizers, and toners that achieve a High fit for sensitive skin, whereas Hanhoo mainly features patches like its Blemish Patch. Glycerin helps provide hydration in Simple products, while niacinamide helps improve skin appearance and is backed by research.
Simple features lightweight, value-friendly moisturizers among the products on this page, while Hanhoo does not highlight affordability.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or Hanhoo?
Simple products on this page are frequently noted by reviewers to sometimes cause breakouts or irritations. Niacinamide in Simple helps manage skin issues.
Which brand has been around longer, Simple or Hanhoo?
Simple has been around longer, having been founded in 1960 in the United Kingdom, whereas Hanhoo was founded in 2008.
Do any products from either Simple or Hanhoo contain fragrance?
Every product on this page from both Simple and Hanhoo lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
How do the skin type fit levels compare between Simple's Micellar Cleansing Water and Hanhoo's Blemish Patch?
Simple's Micellar Cleansing Water has a High fit level for sensitive, oily, and dry skin, and an Average fit level for acne-prone skin, whereas Hanhoo's Blemish Patch has a High fit level for acne-prone, dry, and sensitive skin, and an Average fit level for oily skin.
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.
