Simple and Hanhoo are accessible skincare brands offering gentle daily essentials for varied complexions. The British brand is known for its moisturizers, makeup removers, cleansers, and toners featuring niacinamide and glycerin, while the second brand is celebrated for targeted serums and balanced formulas like blemish and pore patches. Both brands suit sensitive skin best, with the first also serving oily acne-prone skin and the other comforting dry and combination types. They primarily differ in their core product lineups, as the former relies on liquid formulas for hydration and barrier support, whereas the latter specializes in localized patches for targeted care.
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 is a better choice than Hanhoo for a broader range of skin types, earning a High fit for sensitive skin with products like its Micellar Cleansing Water. Its formulations feature ingredients like glycerin that help hydrate the skin. Niacinamide helps reduce cutaneous pigmentation.
Simple offers a broad range of fragrance-free daily skincare products like cleansers, moisturizers, and makeup removers that focus on sensitive and acne-prone skin, while Hanhoo features targeted patch treatments such as blemish and pore patches. Glycerin and niacinamide help Simple products provide lightweight hydration and address pigmentation, with niacinamide backed by studies on reducing cutaneous pigmentation.
Simple offers lightweight, value-friendly moisturizers across the products on this page, while Hanhoo does not highlight affordability or pricing details.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or Hanhoo?
Simple products on this page have reviewers often noting breakouts or irritations, while Hanhoo features spot-targeting patches like the Blemish Patch with a High fit level for acne-prone skin.
Which brand was founded earlier, Simple or Hanhoo?
Simple was founded earlier, in 1960 in the United Kingdom, whereas Hanhoo was founded in 2008.
Do any products from Simple or Hanhoo contain fragrance?
Every product on this page from both Simple and Hanhoo lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
What are the key ingredients featured across Simple products?
The products on this page from Simple feature Niacinamide and Glycerin as their key ingredients. Glycerin helps provide moisturization and supports the skin barrier.
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.
