Why are kids asking for anti-ageing skincare?

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Skincare used to appeal to an older demographic, often with the aim of slowing down visible signs of ageing. But as trends in skincare have evolved, with ever more products on the market, the audience has grown too. Children as young as eight are now saving up their pocket money to buy different creams, serums and moisturizers. But some of these products contain active ingredients, not designed for their young skin - and this can lead to problems. Dermatologists have told the BBC they're seeing children with dermatitis and other skin conditions who have used certain products. Today, we take a look at why young people are becoming obsessed with skincare, and what could be done to protect these young consumers from buying unsuitable products.

(Picture: 11 year-old Tilly, from the UK, sitting at her vanity desk. Credit: BBC)

Presented and produced by Hannah Mullane

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. I'm Hannah Malane. Today.
0:09.3	Starting off strong, let's do my bubble tone. Ah, I'm obsessed. Next is Katie Fing's
0:14.6	strong elephant smoothies. If you use social media regularly, you've probably come across
0:19.6	clips like these.
0:25.4	People talking about the skincare and beauty products they're using, getting ready in front of the camera.
0:29.7	What's more unusual is the age of the people in the clips you've just heard.
0:34.8	They're younger than you might expect, talking about the different products they're putting on their skin.
0:37.5	In today's program, I'll be taking a look at the skincare industry and its new, very young audience. And the concern that some of these products
0:43.0	containing active ingredients could have serious, long-lasting consequences for their young skin.
0:48.4	I have seen patients that have had first-degree chemical burns. This can cause, you know, long-term hyper-hypoigmentation.
0:57.5	It's a challenge for the parents being asked to buy these products
1:00.2	and for the beauty industry too.
1:02.7	Today, we'll hear from young people about why these products are so desirable
1:06.2	and from a pharmacy chain in Sweden, taking the matter into their own hands.
1:11.2	There was an increasing trend of very young people using quite advanced skincare routines.
1:17.0	So we asked ourselves, what can we do to make a difference?
1:22.3	We'll find out exactly what this pharmacy did and ask whether it's a template that other countries should be following.
1:28.4	That's all coming up on this edition of Business Daily.
1:34.9	We open my drawer, so my vanity. So I've got stuff to get like my makeup off, brushes, like concealers, stuff my lashes and then this is
1:48.7	proper like skincare stuff. Meet Tilly. She's 11 years old and lives in Manchester in the
1:55.0	northwest of England. She's showing me around her bedroom where she gets ready each day.
1:59.7	Oh my gosh, look at this.
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