- Price
- €0.60
- Size
- 10 ml
- Format
- Wash-off
- Brand from
- Germany
- Ingredients
- 21
- Vegan
- Yes
Where we found it
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Schaebens
Gesichtscrememaske Gel to Milk
€0.60
An anhydrous oil gel that emulsifies when you wet it, which is why soybean oil leads the list and Aqua does not appear until ninth. Oat kernel oil, sweet almond oil and tocopherol follow, held together by sucrose stearate. Worth reading to the end, though: after Aqua, almost everything left is Parfum and its declared allergens - fourteen of the twenty-one entries are fragrance material.
What stands out in the list
Worked out from the ingredients, not the packaging claims.
Contains fragrance
Listed as Parfum/Fragrance, which can stand for dozens of undisclosed aroma chemicals. Fragrance is one of the most common causes of cosmetic contact allergy.
7 declared fragrance allergens
EU law requires these to be named on the pack: Citronellol, Geraniol, Hexyl Cinnamal, Limonene, Linalool, Linalyl Acetate, Tetramethyl Acetyloctahydronaphthalenes.
1 essential oil
Naturally derived, and a frequent trigger for reactive skin: Lavandula Oil/Extract.
No drying alcohol
No ethanol, alcohol denat. or isopropyl alcohol in the list. Fatty alcohols such as cetearyl alcohol are not drying and do not count.
Nothing flagged for pregnancy
No ingredient on this list is one our encyclopaedia marks as avoided or used with caution in pregnancy. That is not the same as a clearance, so check with your midwife or doctor.
The panel
All 21 ingredients, in the order they appear on the pack. Tap a name to read the full entry.
- Well tolerated
- No meaningful concern for most people; irritation is possible but rare.
- Depends on you
- Genuinely relevant for some people, or depends on dose and pH.
- Worth knowing
- EU-restricted, a common contact allergen, or subject to live debate.
- Avoid
- Banned in EU cosmetics or credibly linked to serious harm.
- Not yet documented
- No encyclopaedia entry for this ingredient yet, so we make no claim about it.
- 03Sucrose Stearate·
- 04Avena Sativa Kernel Oil·
- below ≈1% - ingredients may be listed in any order
- 07Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone·
- 08Amyl Cinnamal·
- 12Geranyl Acetate·
- 14Lavandula Oil/Extract·
- 19Terpineol·
- 21Vanillin·
How to use it
Spread the gel over cleansed, dry skin, avoiding eyes and lips. After 10 to 15 minutes wet the skin so the gel turns into a white milk, then rinse off with warm water or take it off with a tissue. Use two or three times a week as needed.
What the brand claims
Reproduced from the pack or the brand’s own page. We have not tested these.
- Oil-first: soybean oil leads, water is only ninth
- Turns from gel to milk when wetted
- Vegan
- Fourteen of the twenty-one entries are perfume or its declared allergens
