Garnier face masks

The short read

• The tub's per-use figure is estimated from pack size at a typical application rather than counted off a pack, and it is the only estimated figure here. The sachets are all counted, and they sit close together.

• Not one mask here is fragrance-free and every one prints parfum, both a long way from the catalogue's own shares - the table below gives them side by side. Rather fewer break an allergen out by name.

• Glyceryl isostearate, ascorbyl glucoside, ammonium polyacryloyldimethyl taurate, dicaprylyl carbonate and potassium hydroxide are each printed here at many times their catalogue shares.

• Most of these masks carry no essential oil and most are free of a drying alcohol. Only some are clear of the pregnancy flag, and a small number are recorded vegan.

• The encyclopaedia has an entry for less of each list here than across the catalogue, and for less than on most of the shelves with a page - so more of these labels than most is printed in names the site cannot yet decode.

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 219 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.

• Ammonium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate4 of 6 here·7 of 219 overall
• Hydroxyacetophenone5 of 6 here·67 of 219 overall
• Citric Acid4 of 6 here·79 of 219 overall
• Parfum / Fragrance6 of 6 here·120 of 219 overall

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

The 10 side by side

A brand needs 5 masks to carry a page, which is the floor at which a shelf says something a filter could not, and 10 of the 91 brands in the catalogue reach it. The other 81 are still in the catalogue and out of this table: 69 of them hold one or two masks, and 51 hold exactly one, and a median over one product is not a median. This is the one family whose whole partition will not go in a table, so a superlative here scoped to all brands is one a reader has to take on trust - the five that are so scoped are listed in lib/brands.ts for a reviewer to re-check.

What these labels print

Seven readings of the ingredient list, each counted the same way across this shelf and across the whole catalogue, so the second column is the baseline the first is worth reading against. Every one of them is a statement about what is printed on a pack - not about what a mask does, and not a verdict on any of them. The pregnancy flag in particular is a reason to read a list rather than a warning: it marks a mask carrying something the encyclopaedia says to check, which is a different thing from a mask being unsafe.

Vegan status is unrecorded for 4 of the 6 masks here, so that row counts only the packs where we found it stated - unrecorded is not the same as not vegan. How far into a list we can read is its own reading: the encyclopaedia has an entry for a median of 81.5% of each list here, against 82% across the catalogue. The rest is printed in names the site cannot yet decode, and an undecoded name is one we make no claim about either way - what we do not know.

Which formats these are

A format is the plainest thing about a mask that is not on its ingredient list - what you buy it in and how you use it - and it explains a good deal of what the readings above look like. A shelf of pots and tubes carries longer, oilier lists than a shelf of sachets, and its price per use is worked out rather than counted.

• Sheet5 of 6·83%
• Wash-off1 of 6·17%

Formats without a link have too few masks in the catalogue to carry a page of their own.

All 6 Garnier 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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  Pure Active 3-in-1 Charcoal Wash, Scrub & Mask

  25ingredients

  !6 ingredients we would look at twice

  ≈€0.19 per use

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  Salicylic Tissue Mask

  26ingredients

  !3 ingredients we would look at twice

  €1.65 per use

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  SkinActive Hyaluronic Acid Barrier Repair Serum Tissue Mask

  25ingredients

  !1 ingredient we would look at twice

  €1.65 per use

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  SkinActive Hydra Bomb Tissue Mask Pomegranate

  29ingredients

  !5 ingredients we would look at twice

  €1.85 per use

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  SkinActive Pro-Retinol Tissue Mask

  24ingredients

  !2 ingredients we would look at twice

  €1.85 per use

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  SkinActive Vitamin C Tissue Mask

  21ingredients

  !3 ingredients we would look at twice

  €1.85 per use