SOME BY MI face masks

The short read

• Dipropylene glycol is on all 9 lists here and on 48 of the 215 overall. Polyglyceryl-10 laurate is on 8 here and 37 overall, tromethamine on 5 and 12.

• Five of the nine carry at least one essential oil, the second-highest share of the nine shelves here after MISSHA's six of seven. Two of the nine are fragrance-free and three print Parfum.

• All nine are free of a drying alcohol. Three of the nine are clear of the pregnancy flag, which is a reason to read the list rather than a verdict on the mask.

• A median of €1.55 an application over €0.66 to €2.85, under the catalogue's €1.75. Nothing here is estimated, which is true of four of the nine shelves and of 149 of the 215 masks in the catalogue.

• The encyclopaedia has an entry for a median of 86% of each list here, against 76% 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 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.

• Tromethamine5 of 9 here·12 of 215 overall
• Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer6 of 9 here·16 of 215 overall
• Sodium Polyacrylate4 of 9 here·18 of 215 overall
• Polyglyceryl-10 Laurate8 of 9 here·37 of 215 overall
• Dipropylene Glycol9 of 9 here·48 of 215 overall
• Caprylyl Glycol8 of 9 here·52 of 215 overall
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate8 of 9 here·54 of 215 overall
• Hydroxyacetophenone9 of 9 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 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

  !4 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