Balea face masks

The short read

• The range runs from €0.09 to €2.95, a spread of more than thirty times inside one own-label shelf. Two of the 17 per-use figures are estimated from pack size; the €0.09 is one of them.

• Creams are 6 of the 17, with three sheets, three hydrogels, three peel-offs, a clay and a wash-off - the same six formats Schaebens spans, and no other brand in the catalogue spans more than four.

• Pantolactone is on 8 of the 17 lists here and on 14 of the 215 overall; hydrogenated vegetable glycerides on 5 here and 7 overall. Panthenol is on 13 of the 17 and on 75 overall.

• Four of the 17 are fragrance-free, 12 print Parfum and 8 declare a fragrance allergen by name - the joint-highest count of the nine shelves here, level with Luvos-Heilerde's eight of eight.

• Alcohol denat. is printed on 6 of the 17 and on 16 of the 215 overall, which is why 11 rather than 16 of these lists are free of a drying alcohol. Nine of the 17 are recorded vegan, the largest count of the nine shelves here.

What these lists print that others do not

Not the most common ingredients - water is on nearly every list ever written and tells you nothing about who formulated the mask. These are the entries that appear far more often here than across the 215 masks as a whole, counted by encyclopaedia entry rather than by printed name. A shelf this size makes coincidences cheap, so nothing appears below that is on fewer than four of these lists.

• Hydrogenated Vegetable Glycerides5 of 17 here·7 of 215 overall
• Pantolactone8 of 17 here·14 of 215 overall
• Alcohol Denat6 of 17 here·16 of 215 overall
• Potassium Sorbate5 of 17 here·20 of 215 overall
• Sodium Benzoate5 of 17 here·22 of 215 overall
• Panthenol13 of 17 here·75 of 215 overall
• Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil7 of 17 here·45 of 215 overall
• Phenoxyethanol11 of 17 here·71 of 215 overall

Names without a link have no encyclopaedia entry yet, so we make no claim about them beyond the count.

The 9 side by side

9 of the 89 brands in the catalogue hold 5 masks or more, which is the floor at which a shelf says something a filter could not. The other 80 are still in the catalogue and out of this table: 67 of them hold one or two masks, and 50 hold exactly one, and a median over one product is not a median.

All 17 Balea masks

Cheapest use first. Every one is on sale in the EU and has a published ingredient list we could source and check.

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  Reinigung, Peeling & Maske hautrein 3in1

  18ingredients

  !3 ingredients we would look at twice

  ≈€0.09 per use

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  Gesichtsmaske Peel-Off Aktivkohle

  18ingredients

  !3 ingredients we would look at twice

  ≈€0.21 per use

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  Gesichtsmaske Aloe Vera

  21ingredients

  !3 ingredients we would look at twice

  €0.23 per use

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  Gesichtsmaske Glow Peel-Off

  20ingredients

  !4 ingredients we would look at twice

  €0.23 per use

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  Gesichtsmaske Hyaluron

  29ingredients

  !4 ingredients we would look at twice

  €0.23 per use

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  Gesichtsmaske Milch & Honig

  36ingredients

  !2 ingredients we would look at twice

  €0.23 per use

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  Gesichtsmaske Niacinamide

  17ingredients

  !2 ingredients we would look at twice

  €0.23 per use

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  Gesichtsmaske Peel-Off Lemon Lover

  23ingredients

  !5 ingredients we would look at twice

  €0.23 per use

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  Gesichtsmaske Retinol

  23ingredients

  !2 ingredients we would look at twice

  €0.23 per use

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  Gesichtsmaske Totes Meer

  21ingredients

  !1 ingredient we would look at twice

  €0.23 per use

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  Gesichtsmaske Vitamin C

  23ingredients

  !2 ingredients we would look at twice

  €0.23 per use

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  Tuchmaske Aqua

  18ingredients

  !3 ingredients we would look at twice

  €0.75 per use

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  AHA & BHA Tuchmaske

  16ingredients

  !4 ingredients we would look at twice

  €0.95 per use

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  Tuchmaske Retinol

  16ingredients

  !2 ingredients we would look at twice

  €0.95 per use

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  Gesichtsmaske Beauty Hyaluron Hydrogel

  28ingredients

  !3 ingredients we would look at twice

  €1.95 per use

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  Glass Skin Collagen Maske

  17ingredients

  !1 ingredient we would look at twice

  €1.95 per use

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  Gesichtsmaske Glass Skin Hyaluronic Be You

  30ingredients

  !2 ingredients we would look at twice

  €2.95 per use