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‘It’s disturbing’: the rise in UK children wanting anti-ageing products


Driven by social media, children are using expensive creams, drops and serums that could do more harm than good

Instead, her child had made an extensive, meticulous list of skincare products: expensive eye-creams, anti-ageing serums, drops and oils with ingredients like retinol and polypeptides. Meanwhile, Sarah’s 13-year-old daughter, who had never seemed interested in skincare before, also asked for an extensive list of products for Christmas, including items from Sol De Janeiro and Drunk Elephant. “He works out at gym, has read lots of self-improvement books, and YouTube,” she said, adding that he is on Snapchat and Instagram, but deleted TikTok and stopped gaming as part of his efforts to “better” himself.

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