Medicube face masks

The short read

• The two cheapest figures on this shelf are the two estimated ones, and the three counted figures are the three dearest - so the spread from €0.60 to €4.73 is partly a difference in how the number was arrived at.

• A median of 35 entries and a median of €3.99 an application make this the longest-listed and dearest of the nine shelves here, but not of the catalogue: one mask elsewhere runs to 81 entries and another costs €15.00 a use.

• Adenosine is on 4 of the 5 lists here and on 27 of the 215 overall; polyglyceryl-10 laurate on 4 and 37. Butylene glycol is on all five and on 107 overall.

• This is the only shelf of the nine holding an overnight mask, and one of two - with Luvos-Heilerde - holding no sheet mask at all.

• Not one of the five declares a fragrance allergen by name, the only shelf of the nine where that is true, though three of the five do print Parfum. Two of the five are fragrance-free and all five are free of a drying alcohol.

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.

• Adenosine4 of 5 here·27 of 215 overall
• Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate4 of 5 here·37 of 215 overall
• Ethylhexylglycerin5 of 5 here·103 of 215 overall
• Butylene Glycol5 of 5 here·107 of 215 overall
• 1,2-Hexanediol4 of 5 here·94 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 5 Medicube 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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  Collagen Night Wrapping Mask

  24ingredients

  ≈€0.60 per use

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  Kojic Acid Turmeric Night Wrapping Mask

  22ingredients

  !3 ingredients we would look at twice

  ≈€1.20 per use

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  Collagen Lifting Mask

  39ingredients

  !1 ingredient we would look at twice

  €3.99 per use

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  PDRN Pink Collagen Gel Mask

  43ingredients

  !2 ingredients we would look at twice

  €4.41 per use

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  Kojic Acid Turmeric Brightening Gel Mask

  35ingredients

  !4 ingredients we would look at twice

  €4.73 per use