MISSHA face masks

The short read

• Ginger root extract is on 6 of the 7 lists here and on 11 of the 215 overall; coptis japonica root extract on 6 and 15; sodium carbomer on 4 here and on 4 in the whole catalogue, so every mask that prints it is on this shelf.

• Six of the seven carry at least one essential oil, the highest share of the nine shelves here - and yet four of the seven are fragrance-free and only one prints Parfum.

• Two of the seven declare a fragrance allergen by name. Six of the seven are free of a drying alcohol, and one of the seven is recorded vegan.

• The median application costs €1.75, exactly the catalogue's median, over a range of €1.75 to €2.33 - the narrowest spread of the nine shelves here after Selfie Project's, and none of it estimated.

• The lists run a median of 25 entries against the catalogue's 26, so the shelf is unremarkable on length and unusual on how much of that length we can name.

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.

• Sodium Carbomer4 of 7 here·4 of 215 overall
• Polyglyceryl-10 Myristate5 of 7 here·9 of 215 overall
• Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Extract6 of 7 here·11 of 215 overall
• Coptis Japonica Root Extract6 of 7 here·15 of 215 overall
• Glycereth-264 of 7 here·15 of 215 overall
• Beta-Glucan4 of 7 here·17 of 215 overall
• Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract6 of 7 here·26 of 215 overall
• Hydroxyethylcellulose5 of 7 here·31 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 7 MISSHA 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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  Airy Fit Sheet Mask Aloe

  26ingredients

  !4 ingredients we would look at twice

  €1.75 per use

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  Airy Fit Sheet Mask Pearl

  31ingredients

  !3 ingredients we would look at twice

  €1.75 per use

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  Airy Fit Sheet Mask Tea Tree

  23ingredients

  !2 ingredients we would look at twice

  €1.75 per use

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  Sheet Mask Cucumber

  25ingredients

  !3 ingredients we would look at twice

  €1.75 per use

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  Airy Fit Sheet Mask Green Tea

  23ingredients

  !2 ingredients we would look at twice

  €1.95 per use

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  Snail 3D Sheet Mask

  25ingredients

  !4 ingredients we would look at twice

  €1.99 per use

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  Airy Fit Sheet Mask Rice

  27ingredients

  !3 ingredients we would look at twice

  €2.33 per use