Simple and facefacts are two British skincare brands offering distinct approaches to daily care. Simple features gentle moisturizers, makeup removers, cleansers, and toners powered by niacinamide and glycerin, which suit oily, acne-prone, and sensitive skin best by comforting delicate barriers and reducing hyperpigmentation. Meanwhile, facefacts provides nourishing cleansers and targeted formulas designed to maintain natural moisture balances, making the brand ideal for dry, normal, and combination skin. While both share British origins, they differ through their foundational ingredients and the specific skin types they serve.
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 stands out for its extensive range of products on this page, including the Kind to Skin Soothing Facial Toner which achieves a Superior Lovi fit for mature skin, whereas facefacts offers a more limited selection. Glycerin, a key ingredient found in Simple products, helps maintain skin hydration.
What is the difference between Simple and facefacts?
Simple offers a broad variety of products on this page with fragrance-free formulas, achieving a Superior Lovi fit for mature skin with its Kind to Skin Soothing Facial Toner. In contrast, facefacts features only a single product on this page, the Hydrating Gentle Cleanser, which achieves a High Lovi fit for sensitive skin.
Simple or facefacts: which cleanser is better?
For cleansers, both Simple and facefacts offer gentle options, but facefacts Hydrating Gentle Cleanser achieves a High Lovi fit level for dry, sensitive, acne-prone, dry sensitive, and mature skin, whereas Simple Refreshing Facial Wash has a Low fit level for dry and dry sensitive skin.
Which is more affordable, Simple or facefacts?
Both Simple and facefacts are budget-friendly UK skincare brands, but the page facts do not provide specific pricing to determine which is more affordable.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or facefacts?
Both brands offer products that are well-tolerated, but Simple has specific items like Micellar Cleansing Water that achieve a High fit for sensitive skin while reviewers note that some Simple products may occasionally cause breakouts.
Which brand has been on the market longer, Simple or facefacts?
Simple has been on the market longer, having been founded in the United Kingdom in 1960, whereas facefacts was founded in 2019.
Do any products from either Simple or facefacts contain fragrance?
Every product on this page from both Simple and facefacts lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
What are the main 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 moisture retention.
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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.
