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Cheapest by the application

German brands

Eighty-seven masks, the largest group in the catalogue, at a median of 95 cents an application - the cheapest of every origin in the catalogue, and roughly half what the catalogue as a whole costs per use. Twenty-six brands are listed, but three drugstore own-labels account for 45 of the 87. The lists are shorter than the catalogue's median and very much more fragranced, though almost never with an essential oil.

In the catalogue
95from 32 brands
Median per use
0.950.09-€10.00
Median list length
244-63 entries
Fragrance-free
24of 95

Prices are indicative, captured once from the source recorded on each product page, and they drift. 25 of the 95 per-use figures are estimated from pack size at a typical application rather than counted off a sheet count.

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 are 45 of the 87 between them. This is a drugstore shelf read from the back, not a survey of German cosmetics.

  • Only 23 of the 87 are fragrance-free - but 80 of the 87 contain no essential oil. Sixty print Parfum outright, so the fragrance here is a declared synthetic rather than a botanical one.

  • Forty of the 87 declare at least one fragrance allergen by name, against 30 of the other 116 masks in the catalogue. Linalool leads, on 25 lists.

  • Sunflower seed oil is on 35 of the 87 and on 6 of the other 116. Cetearyl alcohol is on 31 of the 87 and sodium hydroxide on 27, at 1.5 and 1.8 times their catalogue shares.

  • Twenty-six of the catalogue's 29 cream masks are here, which is most of why these lists are shorter and oilier than a sheet mask's. Thirty-nine of the 87 are recorded vegan, the largest count of any origin here.

  • Twenty of the 87 per-use figures are estimated from pack size rather than counted, which is what a jar rather than a sachet gets you.

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.

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.
What the levels mean ↗

Names without a link have no encyclopaedia entry yet, so we make no claim about them beyond the count.

The three side by side

Only three of the eleven origins in the catalogue clear 13 masks, which is the floor at which a page says something a filter could not. The other eight - Japan with 6, the US with 5, Poland with 4, Great Britain with 3, and one mask each from Australia, Latvia, Austria and Malta - stay in the catalogue and out of this table, because a median over one product is not a median.

Masks, median price per use, median ingredient count and fragrance-free count, by brand origin
Brands fromMasksMedian per useMedian listFragrance-free
Korean brands752.282944 of 75
German brands950.952424 of 95
French brands201.8524.51 of 20

All 95 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.


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The other origins

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