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How girls are falling down a skincare rabbit hole

Children as young as ten years old are developing unhealthy obsessions with having what they perc...

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06.50 8 Jun 2026


How girls are falling down a skincare rabbit hole


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06.50 8 Jun 2026


Children as young as ten years old are developing unhealthy obsessions with having what they perceive to be ‘perfect skin’, leading to complex daily cosmetic routines using numerous products. That has led researchers to coin a new term cosmeticorexia to define this obsession. Professor Giovanni Damiana is an Associate Professor of Dermatology at the University of Milan explains more.


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