Simple and ELIDEL are distinct skincare brands offering gentle daily preparations for various complexions. The British brand is known for its cleansers, toners, and moisturizers featuring niacinamide and glycerin, which suit acne-prone skin and dark spots best. Conversely, the Swiss brand is celebrated for soothing formulas and moisturizers that suit sensitive, dry skin best. They differ primarily in their core ingredients and target skin types, providing tailored options for individual needs.
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 ELIDEL products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.
Simple is the better choice for most shoppers because the products on this page achieve High and Average Lovi fit levels across a wide variety of skin types, whereas ELIDEL only reaches Average or lower fits and is marked with Caution for oily skin. Niacinamide helps control skin aging and pigmentation, and glycerin supports hydration.
Simple offers a variety of cleansers, makeup removers, and moisturizers featuring niacinamide and glycerin that fit sensitive and acne-prone skin at Average to High levels, whereas ELIDEL provides a single pimecrolimus moisturizer with Average fits for sensitive and dry sensitive skin.
Simple offers multiple moisturizers on this page that have an Average Lovi fit across skin types, whereas ELIDEL provides just one, Pimecrolimus, which has an Average fit for dry and sensitive skin but lower ratings for other skin types.
Which is more affordable, Simple or ELIDEL?
Simple offers value-friendly moisturizers, while ELIDEL does not have pricing information on this page.
Which causes fewer breakouts, Simple or ELIDEL?
Simple features products on this page with a generally better acne-prone fit than ELIDEL, though reviewers note that Simple can still cause breakouts or irritations.
Which brand was founded earlier, Simple or ELIDEL?
Simple was founded earlier in 1960 in the United Kingdom, while ELIDEL was founded in 2001 in Switzerland.
Do any products from Simple or ELIDEL contain fragrance?
Every product on this page from Simple and ELIDEL lists no fragrance in its ingredients.
Which company currently owns Simple, and which owns ELIDEL?
Simple is owned by Unilever PLC, while ELIDEL is owned by Viatris Inc.
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.
