Garnier face masks

The short read

• The €0.19 is estimated from pack size at a typical application rather than counted off a pack, and it is the only estimated figure on this shelf. The five sheets are counted, and all five sit within 20 cents of each other.

• None of the six is fragrance-free and all six print Parfum, against 117 of the 215 across the catalogue. Three of the six break an allergen out by name.

• Ammonium polyacryloyldimethyl taurate is on 4 of the 6 lists here and on 7 of the 215 overall. Hydroxyacetophenone is on 5 here and 66 overall.

• Five of the six carry no essential oil and five are free of a drying alcohol. Three of the six are clear of the pregnancy flag and two are recorded vegan.

• The encyclopaedia has an entry for a median of 68.5% of each list here, the second lowest of the nine shelves - 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 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.

• Ammonium Polyacryloyldimethyl Taurate4 of 6 here·7 of 215 overall
• Hydroxyacetophenone5 of 6 here·66 of 215 overall
• Parfum / Fragrance6 of 6 here·117 of 215 overall
• Citric Acid4 of 6 here·79 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 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

  !4 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