Simple vs ILIA Beauty
Simple and ILIA Beauty are distinct skincare lines created to support daily routines through gentle, thoughtful formulations. The British brand is known for moisturizers, makeup removers, cleansers, and toners enriched with niacinamide and glycerin, which suit acne-prone and oily skin best. Meanwhile, the Canadian brand is widely loved for its nourishing moisturizers and hydrating compositions that suit dry, normal, and combination skin. While both offer supportive care, they differ in their primary skin-type suitability and key ingredient focus.
Simple is a British skincare brand founded in 1960 and owned by Unilever PLC since 2011.
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ILIA Beauty is a Canadian skincare brand founded in 2011 and owned by Famille C since 2022.
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This page compares some of the most popular Simple and ILIA Beauty products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Popular Simple vs ILIA Beauty products
Questions and answers
Simple or ILIA Beauty: which is better?
Simple offers a broad lineup of gentle, fragrance-free cleansers, makeup removers, and moisturizers featuring glycerin and niacinamide, whereas ILIA Beauty only features a single moisturizer on this page. Glycerin helps maintain skin hydration, and niacinamide may help reduce cutaneous pigmentation.
What is the difference between Simple and ILIA Beauty?
Simple offers a broad selection of cleansers, makeup removers, toners, and moisturizers featuring ingredients like glycerin and niacinamide, whereas ILIA Beauty features just one moisturizer on this page, The Base Face Milk. Simple achieves a Superior fit rating for mature skin with its Kind to Skin Soothing Facial Toner and High fit ratings for sensitive and acne-prone skin types across several products.
Simple or ILIA Beauty: which moisturizer is better?
Simple offers a wider variety of moisturizers on this page, which Lovi rates as average across all skin types, while ILIA Beauty features only one moisturizer, The Base Face Milk, also rated as average for every skin type. Glycerin helps provide hydration in these products.
Which is more affordable, Simple or ILIA Beauty?
Simple offers value-friendly moisturizers, while ILIA Beauty is not highlighted for affordability on this page.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or ILIA Beauty?
Simple offers more varied product options than ILIA Beauty, but reviewer feedback notes that some products on this page may cause breakouts or irritations.
When was Simple founded and who owns it compared to ILIA Beauty?
Simple was founded in 1960 in the United Kingdom and has been owned by Unilever PLC since 2011, whereas ILIA Beauty was founded in 2011 in Canada and is owned by Famille C.
Do any products from Simple or ILIA Beauty contain fragrance?
Every product on this page from both Simple and ILIA Beauty lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
What are the key ingredients found across Simple products?
The products on this page for Simple include Niacinamide and Glycerin as their key ingredients. Glycerin helps improve skin hydration and barrier function.
Research behind their key ingredients
The effect of niacinamide on reducing cutaneous pigmentation and suppression of melanosome transfer
Apigenin inhibits UVA-induced cytotoxicity in vitro and prevents signs of skin aging in vivo
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.
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Cosmetic chemist, cosmetologist, aesthetic products developer
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PhD in computer science, 3x US patent holder, ex-Google, ex-Yandex
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Dr. Sofía Perea Pérez, MD, MSc
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Aesthetic medicine practitioner, MSc in Longevity and Anti-Aging Medicine
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Specialist dermatologist, MBBS, MD, IFAAD
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Elina Nazarenko, MD
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Dermatology and diagnostic consultant
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Victoria Derkova, MS
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Cosmetic chemist, cosmetic development technologist
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