Beauty fridge are they safe for 11 year old do have in her bedroom.

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DD 11 has asked for a beauty fridge for her bedroom to keep all her lotions and potions on since January!!

I have said no all the way throughout the year but am starting to soften as we get closer to Christmas.

I had a couple of concerns, she had said she wanted to put a couple of snacks in there and I wasn’t sure (as she is a bit of a snacker) I wanted to encourage food in her bedroom but mainly I wasn’t sure how safe they were, to have running throughout the night…

Has anyone bought one for DC and has any advice or any reviews of which to go for.

My worries would be that she has a midnight snack but falls back to sleep and chokes, it starts a fire and uses too much electricity.

If that what she really wants I would compromise and say she can’t have it plugged in over night and can only put beauty products and drinks in it.

What about something like this

Cool storage that has the look of a Beauty fridge without the fridge element!

She is 11, not 3!

My goodness, she's 11 how dramatic.

Maybe get her something she wants and less hand wringing from the comments and attacks and judgements 🤣 this thread is peak mumsnet

I'd be worried about the extra electricity costs and the hum keeping her awake. Is there room in your family fridge for her make up - if you have two salad drawers at the bottom, she could use one of them? Probably only needed in summer to be honest, unless you keep your heating on very high.

You definitely don't need to explain this to anyone at all.

I think it's cute. And I'm sure most people would much rather their 11 year old as home with a facemask on than causing grief outside somewhere.

Fridge wise though, I personally wouldn't for fire safety reasons. Could get a cute box for them all or something though as a compromise

I thought exactly the same!

This with bells on

An 11 year old child worrying about skin and beauty

And a "beauty fridge" is a gimmick that didn’t need inventing

I have the StylPro one. Other than being very small, it's quiet. I keep it in a well ventilated place and not had any cause for concern. Funnily enough, yesterday I did notice a small patch of ice at the back of it, so I probably need to defrost it! lol. You can't adjust the temperature. Other than the main storage it has a very small 'shelf' which I keep a tube of bonjela in. (Could probably fit 4 tubes stored upside down - lid facing up - to give you context of size) I have had it for one year. Its quite expensive for what it is.

It’s a little fridge, not a Breaking Bad themed ‘make your own meth’ set. I would get her one. I wanted all sorts of stupid crap when I was 11. Slushy machines, popcorn makers etc. Money wasters basically. But the heart wants what it wants.

And as for it being the end of humanity and her falling asleep and choking while snacking - I just couldn’t get my knickers in a twist about those. It’s not new. From Little Women to Judy Blume - beauty products weren’t invented in 2010. And if she’s got to 11 without learning to chew her own food then maybe op should be blending her dinner for her.

compared to many of the other things they might ask for for christmas I don't see the problem. I have a russell hobbs one that i use in my mini camper van as a milk/gin and tonic fridge and not it isn't noisy, it keeps things within the recommended fridge temperatures, isn't a fire risk and has very low electricity consumption (I need the KWH's for my fan heater!). in terms of beauty products there are a number of threads on style and beauty about introducing your daughters to a skincare routine by age 13, I'm not sure what the problem is.

And if she’s got to 11 without learning to chew her own food then maybe op should be blending her dinner for her.

Why the rudeness?

I know someone who chocked to death and was perfectly capable of chewing.

I also don’t think a child needs to be grazing on food all night even if it was non chokeable food like ice cream.

You may think it’s fine for kids to graze on popcorn all day and night but I don’t see the need to keep food in it and can be kept for just the beauty products and drinks.

Nice big sistema and her own space in the big fridge?

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I’m sorry you knew someone who choked to death. But unless you suggest everyone should be supervised at all times if they are eating, it has nothing to do with somebody having a mini fridge. The child is 11 years old. Presumably she eats independently at many times. Makes no difference if it’s in her room, on the way to school, in the garden. The choking risk isn’t somehow heightened because she’s eating something from her little fridge.

Did anyone say the child would be sitting stuffing her face day and ‘all night?’ And if she did want to ‘graze on popcorn night and day’ a little fridge wouldn’t actually even help with that.

Rolling my eyes at the environment preachers. Where are you on the 100 other threads of people doing 20 loads of washing a week?

OP, get her the fridge

Yes - if the DD wants a refrigerated 'midnight snack' surely she would just use the main fridge to store it? Fridges sold as 'beauty fridges' are tiny - there'd be little room in them for snacks.

Both my dds have large counter top fridges in their bedrooms. Curious is this a bad thing?

No one needs a beauty fridge. They’re pointless.

Would the snack she's choking on happen to be a Dairylea by chance?

"My child is asking for some petrol and matches to set a couple of houses alight.
Has anyone bought some for DC and has any advice or any reviews of which to go for.
No judgment plz!"

I think you definitely should get that fridge, but make sure you wrap it up in pictures of the Pakistan floods, the drought in China, wildfires in Europe, and tell her that here's the future you are gifting her.

The more I think about it the more fitting the symbolism of a beauty fridge is, as one of the first impacts that people in the UK will be noticing more and more will be the price and scarcity of food due to failing harvests (likelihood today of a global simultaneous harvest failure: next to zero, likelihood by the time your child is 30 in the central scenario: 10% and counting. That's on top of yield reductions. www.chathamhouse.org/2021/09/climate-change-risk-assessment-2021)

(And no, one beauty fridge will not make the difference. The mindset in an adult that contemplates it though does!)

OP, you might want to look at silent hotel fridges. I bought one when I used to run an Airbnb and had it in the guest bedroom stocked with milk, water, juice etc. made no noise at all. I honestly don't think it cost much to run. Don't know how much your beauty fridge is but this was around £150, four years ago. Very good quality and we still use it now in a new house in a gym room for water.

I’d never heard of a beauty fridge before this thread but I would not get one for a child at any age as they look completely unnecessary and potentially unsafe. I really don’t like the idea of a cheap appliance running 24/7 in a bedroom.

I think you definitely should get that fridge, but make sure you wrap it up in pictures of the Pakistan floods, the drought in China, wildfires in Europe, and tell her that here's the future you are gifting her.

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