Simple and Blue Lizard are two gentle skincare brands designed for delicate complexions. The British line offers nourishing moisturizers, makeup removers, cleansers, and toners formulated with niacinamide and glycerin, while the sunscreen maker is known for reliable mineral sunscreens. Both brands suit sensitive skin best, though the former also excels with oily acne-prone skin through items like its Kind to Skin Soothing Facial Toner and Micellar Cleansing Water. Ultimately, they differ because Simple focuses on barrier-respecting daily care with hydrating and brightening ingredients, whereas Blue Lizard specializes in protective mineral sun defense.
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 Blue Lizard products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Simple and Blue Lizard serve different purposes, with Simple offering a wide range of everyday cleansers, makeup removers, and moisturizers featuring key ingredients like glycerin and niacinamide, while Blue Lizard focuses on mineral sunscreen. Glycerin helps improve skin hydration, and niacinamide may help reduce cutaneous pigmentation. Lovi rates Blue Lizard's Sensitive Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50+ as Superior for sensitive and dry sensitive skin, whereas Simple products on this page achieve fit levels ranging from Low to Superior depending on the specific product and skin type.
What is the difference between Simple and Blue Lizard?
Simple offers a range of fragrance-free cleansers, makeup removers, toners, and moisturizers featuring ingredients like glycerin and niacinamide that help hydrate the skin and reduce pigmentation, whereas Blue Lizard provides a single fragrance-free mineral sunscreen that achieves a Superior Lovi fit for sensitive and dry sensitive skin.
Simple features value-friendly moisturizers on the products on this page, whereas Blue Lizard does not provide affordability details.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or Blue Lizard?
Simple features reviewers noting that the products on this page may cause breakouts or irritations.
Which brand has been around longer, Simple or Blue Lizard?
Simple has been around longer, having been founded in 1960 in the United Kingdom, whereas Blue Lizard was founded in 1995.
Do any products from either Simple or Blue Lizard contain fragrance?
Every product on this page from both Simple and Blue Lizard lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
What skin types does Blue Lizard's Sensitive Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50+ fit best?
Lovi rates Blue Lizard's Sensitive Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50+ as having a Superior fit for sensitive skin and dry sensitive skin, and a High fit for all other listed skin types.
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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.
