Cheapest by the application
German brands
The largest group of any origin in the catalogue, and the cheapest per application of any origin in it - roughly half what the catalogue as a whole costs a use. Rather fewer brands are listed than that size suggests, because three drugstore own-labels account for much of the group between them. The lists are shorter than the catalogue's median and very much more fragranced, though almost never with an essential oil.
- In the catalogue
- 97from 33 brands
- Median per use
- €0.95€0.09-€10.00
- Median list length
- 254-63 entries
- Fragrance-free
- 24of 97
Prices are indicative, captured once from the source recorded on each product page, and they drift. 27 of the 97 per-use figures are estimated from pack size at a typical application rather than counted off a sheet count.
The cheapest application here is Balea Reinigung, Peeling & Maske hautrein 3in1 ≈€0.09, 18 entries and the dearest Dr. Barbara Sturm Face Mask ≈€10.00, 18 entries.
“German brands” means the brand is based in Germany. It is not a claim about where the mask was manufactured - that is not printed on most packs, and we do not record it.
The short read
Schaebens, Balea and Luvos-Heilerde account for much of this group between them, and a little more counting the Balea med and Balea MEN lines the dataset records as brands of their own. This is a drugstore shelf read from the back, not a survey of German cosmetics.
Only a minority of these masks leave fragrance off the list - but almost all of them contain no essential oil, and most print parfum outright. The fragrance here is a declared synthetic rather than a botanical one, which is a distinction the table below makes in two rows.
A much larger share of these labels breaks at least one fragrance allergen out by name than the catalogue's do. Linalool leads.
Sunflower seed oil, cetearyl alcohol and sodium hydroxide are each on well above their catalogue shares here. Most of the catalogue's cream masks are on this page, which is most of why these lists are shorter and oilier than a sheet mask's.
More masks here are recorded vegan than on any other origin page, and the pregnancy flag reaches fewer of them than it does across the catalogue.
A good part of the per-use figures here are estimated from pack size rather than counted, which is what a jar rather than a sachet gets you. The cheapness is real; any single figure is indicative.
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.
- Well tolerated
- No meaningful concern for most people; irritation is possible but rare.
- Worth knowing
- EU-restricted, a common contact allergen, or subject to live debate.
- Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil40 of 97 here·46 of 219 overall
- Sodium Hydroxide31 of 97 here·39 of 219 overall
- Linalool33 of 97 here·46 of 219 overall
- Cetearyl Alcohol34 of 97 here·51 of 219 overall
Names without a link have no encyclopaedia entry yet, so we make no claim about them beyond the count.
Every origin side by side
3 of the 12 origins in the catalogue clear 13 masks, which is the floor at which a page says something a filter could not. The rest stay in the catalogue and get no page, because a median over one product is not a median - but they are in this table rather than summarised out of it, because they are exactly what an unscoped superlative loses to. Every figure here is counted across all of them, so the claims above are scoped to something you can check.
| Brands from | Masks | Median per use | Median list | Fragrance-free |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| German brands | 97 | €0.95 | 25 | 24 of 97 |
| Korean brands | 76 | €2.30 | 29.5 | 45 of 76 |
| French brands | 21 | €1.86 | 24 | 1 of 21 |
| Japan | 6 | €6.36 | 30.5 | 3 of 6 |
| Poland | 6 | €1.95 | 27 | 0 of 6 |
| United States | 4 | €1.40 | 23 | 3 of 4 |
| United Kingdom | 3 | €2.16 | 30 | 0 of 3 |
| Canada | 2 | €1.94 | 21.5 | 2 of 2 |
| Austria | 1 | €10.29 | 45 | 0 of 1 |
| Australia | 1 | €4.56 | 16 | 0 of 1 |
| Latvia | 1 | €6.25 | 26 | 1 of 1 |
| Malta | 1 | €3.95 | 26 | 1 of 1 |
What these labels print
Seven readings of the ingredient list, each counted the same way across these brands 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.
| Reading | Here | Catalogue |
|---|---|---|
| Fragrance-free | 24 of 9725% | 80 of 21937% |
| No essential oil | 86 of 9789% | 182 of 21983% |
| No drying alcohol | 65 of 9767% | 173 of 21979% |
| Nothing flagged in pregnancy | 78 of 9780% | 147 of 21967% |
| Prints parfum | 69 of 9771% | 120 of 21955% |
| Names an allergen | 49 of 9751% | 81 of 21937% |
| Recorded vegan | 42 of 9743% | 60 of 21927% |
Vegan status is unrecorded for 53 of the 97 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 81% 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.
Which formats these are
A format is the plainest thing about a mask that is not on its ingredient list - what you buy it in and how you use it - and it explains a good deal of what the readings above look like. A shelf of pots and tubes carries longer, oilier lists than a shelf of sachets, and its price per use is worked out rather than counted.
- Cream29 of 97·30%
- Sheet29 of 97·30%
- Clay14 of 97·14%
- Hydrogel7 of 97·7%
- Exfoliating5 of 97·5%
- Peel-off5 of 97·5%
- Overnight4 of 97·4%
- Wash-off3 of 97·3%
- Bubble1 of 97·1%
Formats without a link have too few masks in the catalogue to carry a page of their own.
All 97 masks from Germany brands
Cheapest use first. Every one is on sale in the EU and has a published ingredient list we could source and check.
Balea
Reinigung, Peeling & Maske hautrein 3in1
18ingredients
3 ingredients we would look at twice≈€0.09 per use
Balea
Gesichtsmaske Peel-Off Aktivkohle
18ingredients
3 ingredients we would look at twice≈€0.21 per use
Balea
Gesichtsmaske Aloe Vera
21ingredients
3 ingredients we would look at twice€0.23 per use
Balea
Gesichtsmaske Glow Peel-Off
20ingredients
4 ingredients we would look at twice€0.23 per use
Balea
Gesichtsmaske Hyaluron
29ingredients
4 ingredients we would look at twice€0.23 per use
Balea
Gesichtsmaske Milch & Honig
36ingredients
2 ingredients we would look at twice€0.23 per use
Balea
Gesichtsmaske Niacinamide
17ingredients
2 ingredients we would look at twice€0.23 per use
Balea
Gesichtsmaske Peel-Off Lemon Lover
23ingredients
5 ingredients we would look at twice€0.23 per use
Balea
Gesichtsmaske Retinol
23ingredients
2 ingredients we would look at twice€0.23 per use
Balea
Gesichtsmaske Totes Meer
21ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice€0.23 per use
Balea
Gesichtsmaske Vitamin C
23ingredients
5 ingredients we would look at twice€0.23 per use
Schaebens
Aloe Vera Maske
34ingredients
10 ingredients we would look at twice€0.28 per use
Schaebens
Gesichtsmaske Feuchtigkeit Sofort-Effekt
38ingredients
5 ingredients we would look at twice€0.28 per use
Schaebens
Gesichtsmaske Kollagen Boost
27ingredients
4 ingredients we would look at twice€0.28 per use
Schaebens
Gesichtsmaske Panthenol
22ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice€0.28 per use
Schaebens
Gesichtsmaske Zink
27ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice€0.28 per use
SUNDANCE
After Sun Gesichtsmaske
25ingredients
8 ingredients we would look at twice€0.28 per use
Balea med
Gesichtsmaske kühlend ultra sensitive
13ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice≈€0.30 per use
alverde Naturkosmetik
Gesichtsmaske Q10 mit Vitamin C
40ingredients
11 ingredients we would look at twice≈€0.32 per use
Luvos-Heilerde
Anti-Stress-Maske
33ingredients
6 ingredients we would look at twice€0.38 per use
Luvos-Heilerde
Clean-Peel-Maske
29ingredients
7 ingredients we would look at twice€0.38 per use
Schaebens
Gesichtsmaske peel off Aktivkohle Strong
20ingredients
3 ingredients we would look at twice≈€0.45 per use
Be Routine
Schlafmaske Glow & Hydrate
27ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice≈€0.47 per use
Balea MEN
Gesichtsmaske Creme-Gel Hydro
31ingredients
5 ingredients we would look at twice€0.48 per use
Balea MEN
Gesichtsmaske Q10 Anti-Falten
28ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice€0.48 per use
BIO:VEGANE
Gesichtsmaske Pore Detox Clay Mask
19ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice€0.48 per use
Santé Naturkosmetik
Glow Boost Maske AHA
29ingredients
9 ingredients we would look at twice€0.48 per use
Santé Naturkosmetik
Moisture Fresh Maske Hyaluron
24ingredients
7 ingredients we would look at twice€0.48 per use
Santé Naturkosmetik
Pore Control Maske BHA
29ingredients
4 ingredients we would look at twice€0.48 per use
Santé Naturkosmetik
Skin Vitality Maske Parakresse
33ingredients
9 ingredients we would look at twice€0.48 per use
alkmene
Mein Teebaumöl Anti-Unreinheiten Maske
16ingredients
4 ingredients we would look at twice≈€0.54 per use
Schaebens
Gesichtscrememaske Gel to Milk
21ingredients
10 ingredients we would look at twice≈€0.60 per use
Schaebens
Totes Meer Schlamm Maske
14ingredients
2 ingredients we would look at twice≈€0.60 per use
Schaebens
Gesichtsmaske peel off Aktivkohle
8ingredients
3 ingredients we would look at twice€0.63 per use
Salthouse
Totes Meer Therapie Gesichtsmaske Mineral & Heilerde
17ingredients
2 ingredients we would look at twice≈€0.68 per use
Schaebens
Hyaluron Maske
32ingredients
5 ingredients we would look at twice€0.70 per use
Balea
Tuchmaske Aqua
18ingredients
3 ingredients we would look at twice€0.75 per use
Be Routine
Tuchmasken Granatapfel Multipack
32ingredients
3 ingredients we would look at twice€0.85 per use
Luvos-Heilerde
Anti-Aging-Maske
27ingredients
4 ingredients we would look at twice€0.85 per use
Luvos-Heilerde
Hydro-Maske
33ingredients
8 ingredients we would look at twice€0.85 per use
Luvos-Heilerde
Peeling-Maske
29ingredients
7 ingredients we would look at twice€0.85 per use
Luvos-Heilerde
Reinigungs-Maske
28ingredients
8 ingredients we would look at twice€0.85 per use
Luvos-Heilerde
Vital-Maske
30ingredients
8 ingredients we would look at twice€0.85 per use
Schaebens
Tuchmaske Tonerde
35ingredients
4 ingredients we would look at twice€0.85 per use
LOGONA
Nourish Beruhigende Overnight Maske
53ingredients
9 ingredients we would look at twice≈€0.88 per use
Balea
AHA & BHA Tuchmaske
16ingredients
4 ingredients we would look at twice€0.95 per use
Balea
Tuchmaske Retinol
16ingredients
2 ingredients we would look at twice€0.95 per use
Yeauty
Tuchmaske Aloe Vera Olive Oil Vitamin E
29ingredients
4 ingredients we would look at twice€0.95 per use
Yeauty
Tuchmaske Avocado Cucumber Niacinamide
29ingredients
3 ingredients we would look at twice€0.95 per use
lavera
basis sensitiv Anti-Falten Gesichtsmaske
42ingredients
9 ingredients we would look at twice€0.98 per use
DERMASEL
EXKLUSIV Totes Meer Maske Anti Aging
26ingredients
3 ingredients we would look at twice≈€1.06 per use
DERMASEL
SPA Totes Meer Maske Erholung
31ingredients
2 ingredients we would look at twice≈€1.06 per use
DERMASEL
Totes Meer Mineralien Nährende Arganöl Maske
29ingredients
6 ingredients we would look at twice≈€1.06 per use
The Beauty Mask Company
Bubble Glow Tuchmaske Crazy Cactus
25ingredients
3 ingredients we would look at twice€1.15 per use
The Beauty Mask Company
Tuchmaske Berry Love
16ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice€1.15 per use
Dr. Scheller
Detox Heilmoor Maske
22ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice≈€1.28 per use
Schaebens
Tuchmaske AHA Peeling
17ingredients
4 ingredients we would look at twice€1.45 per use
Schaebens
Tuchmaske Hyaluron
23ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice€1.45 per use
Schaebens
Tuchmaske Kollagen Boost
27ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice€1.45 per use
Schaebens
Tuchmaske Reiswasser
23ingredients
€1.45 per use
Schaebens
Tuchmaske Vitamin C
19ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice€1.45 per use
BIOMARIS
Super Rich Mask
19ingredients
3 ingredients we would look at twice≈€1.50 per use
DERMASEL
SPA Totes Meer Maske Peeling
16ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice≈€1.50 per use
Schaebens
Tuchmaske Melon Love
45ingredients
3 ingredients we would look at twice€1.55 per use
Schaebens
Tuchmaske Summer Glow
44ingredients
3 ingredients we would look at twice€1.55 per use
Balea med
Tuchmaske Panthenol Ultra Sensitive
16ingredients
€1.65 per use
Schaebens
Tuchmaske Jelly Ceramide
29ingredients
€1.75 per use
Luvos-Heilerde
Hydro Booster mit Clean Maske
63ingredients
8 ingredients we would look at twice€1.89 per use
Balea
Gesichtsmaske Beauty Hyaluron Hydrogel
28ingredients
3 ingredients we would look at twice€1.95 per use
Balea
Glass Skin Collagen Maske
17ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice€1.95 per use
Bullrich
Tuchmaske Heilerde+Zink
19ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice€1.95 per use
BULLRICH
Tuchmaske Vitamin C + Retinol
11ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice€1.95 per use
essence
Queen of Pink Face Sheet Mask 01 Keeping My Pink Poker Face
23ingredients
2 ingredients we would look at twice€1.95 per use
SEINZ.
Tuchmaske hydro effect
21ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice€1.95 per use
SEINZ.
Tuchmaske moisture effect
16ingredients
3 ingredients we would look at twice€1.95 per use
Yeauty
Glass-Skin Hydrogel Maske Kollagen & NAD+
15ingredients
2 ingredients we would look at twice€1.95 per use
Yeauty
Glass-Skin Hydrogel Maske Kollagen & PDRN
16ingredients
2 ingredients we would look at twice€1.95 per use
Annemarie Börlind
Sensitive Cream Mask
31ingredients
6 ingredients we would look at twice≈€2.10 per use
Dr. Rimpler
SPECIAL Peel AHA
16ingredients
2 ingredients we would look at twice≈€2.20 per use
Dr. Hauschka
Clarifying Clay Mask
4ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice≈€2.27 per use
Rosental Organics
Regenerating Night Mask
44ingredients
6 ingredients we would look at twice≈€2.65 per use
Schaebens
Gesichtsmaske Hyaluron Hydrogel
19ingredients
3 ingredients we would look at twice€2.75 per use
Schaebens
Tuchmaske Kollagen Hydrogel
27ingredients
€2.75 per use
Balea
Gesichtsmaske Glass Skin Hyaluronic Be You
30ingredients
2 ingredients we would look at twice€2.95 per use
Annemarie Börlind
Hydro Gel Mask
33ingredients
8 ingredients we would look at twice≈€3.63 per use
Weleda
Exo Boost Hydrobounce Tuchmaske
34ingredients
12 ingredients we would look at twice€3.89 per use
hautsache
Gesichtsmaske Biozellulose Calming
27ingredients
€3.95 per use
hautsache
Gesichtsmaske Brightening
33ingredients
€3.95 per use
Rosental Organics
Botanical Lifting Effect Mask
28ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice≈€4.23 per use
DERMASEL
Totes Meer Anti-Age Tuchmaske
23ingredients
3 ingredients we would look at twice€4.29 per use
Dr. Grandel
Timeless Sleeping Cream & Mask
35ingredients
7 ingredients we would look at twice≈€4.65 per use
LA MER
Ultra Booster Premium Mask Effect
41ingredients
9 ingredients we would look at twice≈€4.86 per use
lavera
Hydro Tuchmaske
22ingredients
7 ingredients we would look at twice€4.89 per use
Rosental Organics
Avo Clay Mask
17ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice≈€5.28 per use
Eucerin
Hyaluron-Filler Hyaluron Intensive Mask
11ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice€8.99 per use
Rosental Organics
Slow-Aging Sheet Mask
13ingredients
€9.99 per use
Dr. Barbara Sturm
Face Mask
18ingredients
1 ingredient we would look at twice≈€10.00 per use
Read another shelf
The other origins
The single-use half
Korean brands
76 masks · median €2.30 per use
The pharmacy shelf
French brands
21 masks · median €1.86 per use
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