Schaebens face masks

The short read

• Sheets are 9 of the 21 and creams 6, with two hydrogels, two peel-offs, a clay and a wash-off making up the rest. No other brand in the catalogue but Balea spans six formats, and the next widest spans four.

• Phenoxyethanol is on 13 of the 21 lists here and on 71 of the 215 overall. Sodium hydroxide is on 9 here and 38 overall, trehalose on 7 and 28, sodium citrate on 6 and 22.

• Six of the 21 are fragrance-free and 15 print Parfum, but only 6 break a fragrance allergen out by name - so most of the fragrance on this shelf is declared as the single word.

• Eighteen of the 21 carry no essential oil and 16 are free of a drying alcohol. Five of the 21 are recorded vegan, against 58 of the 215 across the catalogue.

• A median of 85 cents an application over a range of €0.28 to €2.75, with 3 of the 21 figures estimated from pack size rather than counted off a pack.

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 Citrate6 of 21 here·22 of 215 overall
• Trehalose7 of 21 here·28 of 215 overall
• Sodium Hydroxide9 of 21 here·38 of 215 overall
• Phenoxyethanol13 of 21 here·71 of 215 overall
• Niacinamide8 of 21 here·45 of 215 overall
• Pentylene Glycol8 of 21 here·47 of 215 overall
• Allantoin14 of 21 here·83 of 215 overall
• Hydroxyacetophenone11 of 21 here·66 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 21 Schaebens 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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  Aloe Vera Maske

  34ingredients

  !7 ingredients we would look at twice

  €0.28 per use

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  Gesichtsmaske Feuchtigkeit Sofort-Effekt

  38ingredients

  !4 ingredients we would look at twice

  €0.28 per use

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  Gesichtsmaske Kollagen Boost

  27ingredients

  !4 ingredients we would look at twice

  €0.28 per use

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  Gesichtsmaske Panthenol

  22ingredients

  !1 ingredient we would look at twice

  €0.28 per use

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  Gesichtsmaske Zink

  27ingredients

  !1 ingredient we would look at twice

  €0.28 per use

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  Gesichtsmaske peel off Aktivkohle Strong

  20ingredients

  !3 ingredients we would look at twice

  ≈€0.45 per use

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  Gesichtscrememaske Gel to Milk

  21ingredients

  !8 ingredients we would look at twice

  ≈€0.60 per use

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  Totes Meer Schlamm Maske

  14ingredients

  !2 ingredients we would look at twice

  ≈€0.60 per use

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  Gesichtsmaske peel off Aktivkohle

  8ingredients

  !3 ingredients we would look at twice

  €0.63 per use

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  Hyaluron Maske

  32ingredients

  !5 ingredients we would look at twice

  €0.70 per use

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  Tuchmaske Tonerde

  35ingredients

  !3 ingredients we would look at twice

  €0.85 per use

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  Tuchmaske AHA Peeling

  17ingredients

  !4 ingredients we would look at twice

  €1.45 per use

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  Tuchmaske Hyaluron

  23ingredients

  !1 ingredient we would look at twice

  €1.45 per use

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  Tuchmaske Kollagen Boost

  27ingredients

  !1 ingredient we would look at twice

  €1.45 per use

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  Tuchmaske Reiswasser

  23ingredients

  €1.45 per use

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  Tuchmaske Vitamin C

  19ingredients

  !1 ingredient we would look at twice

  €1.45 per use

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  Tuchmaske Melon Love

  45ingredients

  !2 ingredients we would look at twice

  €1.55 per use

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  Tuchmaske Summer Glow

  44ingredients

  !2 ingredients we would look at twice

  €1.55 per use

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  Tuchmaske Jelly Ceramide

  29ingredients

  €1.75 per use

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  Gesichtsmaske Hyaluron Hydrogel

  19ingredients

  !3 ingredients we would look at twice

  €2.75 per use

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  Tuchmaske Kollagen Hydrogel

  27ingredients

  €2.75 per use