Simple vs ILIA Beauty
Simple and ILIA Beauty are distinct skincare lines created to support daily routines with thoughtful care. Simple offers gentle moisturizers, makeup removers, cleansers, and toners powered by niacinamide and glycerin, while the Canadian brand provides nourishing moisturizers and thoughtful compositions. The British brand suits oily acne-prone skin and sensitive skin best, whereas the other suits dry, normal, and combination skin. They differ primarily in their core ingredient profiles and the specific skin types they target.
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.
Questions and answers
Simple or ILIA Beauty: which is better?
Simple is the better choice on this page because it offers a wide range of budget-friendly cleansers, makeup removers, and moisturizers with High to Average Lovi fit levels for sensitive and acne-prone skin, whereas ILIA Beauty features only a single moisturizer with Average fits across skin types. Furthermore, glycerin helps maintain skin hydration in the products on this page.
What is the difference between Simple and ILIA Beauty?
Simple offers a broad selection of cleansers, makeup removers, toners, and moisturizers with high to average Lovi fits for sensitive and acne-prone skin, whereas ILIA Beauty features just one moisturizer on this page with an average Lovi fit across skin types. Glycerin in the products on this page helps maintain skin hydration.
Simple or ILIA Beauty: which moisturizer is better?
Simple offers more moisturizer options on this page, such as the Hydrating Light Moisturiser and Replenishing Rich Moisturiser, which achieve an Average fit across various skin types. Glycerin, a key ingredient found in Simple products, helps support skin hydration.
Which is more affordable, Simple or ILIA Beauty?
Simple offers lightweight, value-friendly moisturizers on this page, whereas ILIA Beauty features a single moisturizer without budget designations. Glycerin helps maintain skin hydration across the products on this page.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or ILIA Beauty?
Simple offers budget-friendly products on this page, but reviewers often mention that it causes breakouts or irritations, whereas ILIA Beauty has too few products featured here for a direct comparison on breakouts.
When were Simple and ILIA Beauty founded and who currently owns them?
Simple was founded in 1960 in the United Kingdom and has been owned by Unilever PLC since 2011. ILIA Beauty was founded in 2011 in Canada and has been owned by Famille C since 2022.
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.
How does the Lovi fit level of Simple's Micellar Cleansing Water compare across different skin types?
Simple's Micellar Cleansing Water achieves a High Lovi fit level for sensitive, oily, and dry skin, and an Average fit level for acne-prone skin, skin with dark spots, dry sensitive skin, mature skin, combination skin, and oily acne-prone skin.
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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Co-founder, Medical Director
Cosmetic chemist, cosmetologist, aesthetic products developer
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Co-founder, CEO and CTO
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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Cosmetic chemist, SCS, IFSCC member
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Dermatology MD
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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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