SOME BY MI face masks

The short read

• Dipropylene glycol is on every list here. Tromethamine, acrylates/C10-30 alkyl acrylate crosspolymer, Polyglyceryl-10 laurate and caprylyl glycol each appear at many times their catalogue shares, and t-butyl alcohol turns up here and almost nowhere else.

• Every mask here is free of a drying alcohol - but rather more of them carry an essential oil than not, which is unusual, and only a small minority leave fragrance off the list altogether.

• Only a minority of these masks are clear of the pregnancy flag, well below the catalogue's share. That is a reason to read the list rather than a verdict on any of them.

• Nothing here is estimated from pack size, which is what a sheet count on the box gets you, and it makes this shelf's price comparison firmer than most.

• The encyclopaedia has an entry for more of each list here than it does across the catalogue, so these pages leave less of the label undecoded than most.

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.

• Tromethamine5 of 9 here·13 of 219 overall
• Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer6 of 9 here·17 of 219 overall
• Sodium Polyacrylate4 of 9 here·18 of 219 overall
• Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate8 of 9 here·37 of 219 overall
• Dipropylene Glycol9 of 9 here·48 of 219 overall
• Caprylyl Glycol8 of 9 here·53 of 219 overall
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate8 of 9 here·55 of 219 overall
• Hydroxyacetophenone9 of 9 here·67 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 6 of the 9 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 86% 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.

All 9 SOME BY MI 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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  Daily Beta Panthenol Repair Mask

  57ingredients

  !1 ingredient we would look at twice

  €0.66 per use

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  Daily Retinol Intense Mask

  62ingredients

  !6 ingredients we would look at twice

  €0.66 per use

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  Real Aloe Soothing Care Mask

  21ingredients

  !2 ingredients we would look at twice

  €1.55 per use

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  Real Cica Calming Care Mask

  28ingredients

  !2 ingredients we would look at twice

  €1.55 per use

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  Real Hyaluron Hydra Care Mask

  31ingredients

  !5 ingredients we would look at twice

  €1.55 per use

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  Real Snail Skin Barrier Care Mask

  21ingredients

  !1 ingredient we would look at twice

  €1.55 per use

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  Real Super Matcha Pore Care Mask

  22ingredients

  !1 ingredient we would look at twice

  €1.55 per use

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  Real Vitamin Brightening Care Mask

  19ingredients

  !2 ingredients we would look at twice

  €1.55 per use

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  Real AHA-BHA-PHA Calming Care Mask

  19ingredients

  !1 ingredient we would look at twice

  €2.85 per use