Results: "Sephora Kids" Trend Sparks Bill to Prohibit Minors from Buying Anti-Aging Products
Published on 03/27/2025
Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/03/26/california-ban-anti-aging-products-sephora-kids/82550844007/
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For the second time, California has introduced bill AB 728, which, if passed, would ban businesses from selling anti-aging beauty products to minors under 18, amid concerns from dermatologists and parents that kids may be harming their skin to meet unrealistic beauty standards. Do you agree that products with anti-aging ingredients should be banned for kids?
Yes
65%
1833 votes
No
10%
266 votes
Undecided
25%
701 votes
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Videos from the "Sephora kids" trend, which gained popularity in early 2024, show young girls rapidly moving through Sephora aisles with shopping baskets full of beauty products. Do you think children today are growing up too quickly due to exposure to social media? Yes, social media accelerates their maturity
67%
1883 votes
No, they are just adapting to modern times
12%
327 votes
Undecided
19%
533 votes
Other (please specify)
2%
57 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 1.14% | 32 | |
| I do not like social media , too many false ideas | 0.04% | 1 |
| ... | 0.04% | 1 |
| Social media is bad for everyone, not just kids | 0.04% | 1 |
| parentsdo your job, why make a law about this | 0.04% | 1 |
| both could apply | 0.04% | 1 |
| Yes. Exposure/mimicing doesn't equal maturity | 0.04% | 1 |
| Social media is DESTROYING youth AND SOCIETY AS A WHOLE | 0.04% | 1 |
| N/A | 0.04% | 1 |
| Stupid peer pressure | 0.04% | 1 |
| Society pushes kids to grow up too fast. | 0.04% | 1 |
| The kids are NOT mature, they are copying their favorite celebrities | 0.04% | 1 |
| It would be more tolerable if children learned other skills before worrying about appearances. They have their entire adulthood to worry about such things. | 0.04% | 1 |
| They are not "growing up" they are imitating adult behavior, not the same thing. | 0.04% | 1 |
| Social media is doing what advertising has done in the past. Giving some unrealistic expectations. Be and except who you are and you will be much happier. | 0.04% | 1 |
| no kids so I have no idea | 0.04% | 1 |
| It just illustrates that they want to feel "grown up." | 0.04% | 1 |
| didn't watch | 0.04% | 1 |
| Yes social media hurts them but it doesn't accelerates their maturity they just look older. Not much mature about them though, if there was they would know better and not do such things. | 0.04% | 1 |
| so dotors are worried about this but not worried about trans gender surgery ,cross sex hormones... ? The world needs to worry about things that actually matter. | 0.04% | 1 |
| why are yoy so suprised This has been happening for the past 15 years kids are growing up to fast in general and missing out on being a child for a time. | 0.04% | 1 |
| exposure to soc'med' migt be the leastr of it;public/govt. "eduication" itself has long ago become a robber of children's innocense | 0.04% | 1 |
| Not mature, not adapting | 0.04% | 1 |
| Social media accelerates their reactions to events | 0.04% | 1 |
| Don't care | 0.04% | 1 |
| Truth is an adult is the one supporting and encouraging this. | 0.04% | 1 |
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