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Balea Tuchmaske Aqua vs Rosental Organics Slow-Aging Sheet Mask

Two German sheet masks, 13.3 times apart on what one use costs, and on the face of it the dearer one wins the ingredient argument outright: thirteen entries, fragrance-free, not one declared allergen. The cheaper runs to eighteen and carries parfum and two allergens the pack is required to name. The catch is that the two lists are not equally legible to us, and that changes what the tallies are worth.

Balea Tuchmaske Aqua

Balea

Tuchmaske Aqua

€0.75 per use · 18 ingredients

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Rosental Organics Slow-Aging Sheet Mask

Rosental Organics

Slow-Aging Sheet Mask

€9.99 per use · 13 ingredients

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The short answer

  • €0.75 a use against €9.99 a use. Unlike the widest gaps elsewhere on this site, here the price is buying something the lists can show: no fragrance and no declared allergen, against Parfum plus linalyl acetate and tetramethyl acetyloctahydronaphthalenes.

  • Five entries are common to both: water, betaine, panthenol, sodium hyaluronate and xanthan gum. Everything else on either list is its own.

  • The caveat is the point. Rosental's tally - seven entries, none flagged - is drawn from 7 of its 13 rows, while Balea's 13 low, 2 caution and 1 watch is drawn from 16 of its 18. Six rows on the Rosental list match nothing in our encyclopaedia yet, so the shortest list here is also the one we can read the least of.

Side by side

Balea Tuchmaske Aqua compared with Rosental Organics Slow-Aging Sheet Mask
AttributeBaleaRosental Organics
Price€0.75€9.99
Per use€0.75●€9.99
Pack1 sheet1 sheet (25 ml)
FormatSheetSheet
Brand fromGermanyGermany
Made forDry, Dehydrated, Oily, Combination, NormalDry, Dehydrated, Normal, Sensitive, Mature
Aimed atHydration, DullnessHydration, Soothing, Fine lines
Ingredients1813
Fragrance-freeNoYes
No essential oilsYesYes
No drying alcoholYesYes
Vegannot statedYes

Prices are indicative, captured once from the source recorded on each product page, and they drift. Per-use figures marked ≈ are estimated from the pack size at a typical application rather than counted off a sheet count.

5 ingredients in common

Masks aimed at the same thing usually share most of their base - water, a humectant, a thickener, a preservative system - and differ further down, below the ≈1% line. Counted by encyclopaedia entry, not by printed row: several printed names can resolve to one substance.

On both lists

Only in Tuchmaske Aqua

Only in Slow-Aging Sheet Mask

  • Aloe Barbadensis Extract
  • Abronia Villosa Leaf Extract
  • Serine
  • Opuntia Cactus Dillenii Extract
  • Maltodextrin
  • Hydroxy Centella Glycoside
  • Centella Glycoside
  • Tremella Fuciformis Extract

What stands out in each list

Worked out from the ingredients by matching them against the encyclopaedia, not from the packaging claims - so a brand cannot earn a kinder summary with better marketing.

Balea Tuchmaske Aqua

  • Contains fragrance

    Listed as Parfum/Fragrance, which can stand for dozens of undisclosed aroma chemicals. Fragrance is one of the most common causes of cosmetic contact allergy.

  • 2 declared fragrance allergens

    EU law requires these to be named on the pack: Linalyl Acetate, Tetramethyl Acetyloctahydronaphthalenes.

  • No drying alcohol

    No ethanol, alcohol denat. or isopropyl alcohol in the list. Fatty alcohols such as cetearyl alcohol are not drying and do not count.

  • Nothing flagged for pregnancy

    No ingredient on this list is one our encyclopaedia marks as avoided or used with caution in pregnancy. That is not the same as a clearance, so check with your midwife or doctor.

  • Barrier-supporting actives

    Contains Panthenol, ingredients with reasonable evidence for calming and supporting the skin barrier.

Rosental Organics Slow-Aging Sheet Mask

  • No fragrance or declared allergens

    Nothing in the list is Parfum/Fragrance or an EU-declared fragrance allergen.

  • No drying alcohol

    No ethanol, alcohol denat. or isopropyl alcohol in the list. Fatty alcohols such as cetearyl alcohol are not drying and do not count.

  • Nothing flagged for pregnancy

    No ingredient on this list is one our encyclopaedia marks as avoided or used with caution in pregnancy. That is not the same as a clearance, so check with your midwife or doctor.

  • Barrier-supporting actives

    Contains Panthenol, ingredients with reasonable evidence for calming and supporting the skin barrier.

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