These soaked cotton pads have a lot of ingredients, with moisturizing and soothing active ingredients. One cotton pad is enough to do the face, but more subtly, I use the cotton pads like a mask, which allows the active ingredients to penetrate and then I massage the excess. A little sticky, but the skin is plumped up, rested. I tend to do this in the evening, a brighter complexion guaranteed when I wake up!!