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

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sendwineandastraw · 13/11/2022 19:04

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.

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MintyFreshOne · 14/11/2022 02:21

NippyWoowoo · 13/11/2022 21:06

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

Oh they are there too 😆

CanYouFeelMyHeart · 14/11/2022 06:44

Peregrane · 13/11/2022 21:10

"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!)

😆😆😆😆😆

Justnosing · 14/11/2022 09:32

No harm done whatsoever! Don’t know why people act like pubescent girls getting into pampering/makeup is a new thing. she’ll love it!

Josette77 · 14/11/2022 13:47

PinkFrogss · 14/11/2022 01:25

I thought the same, and OP said she’s not interested in makeup.

I hope all the posters talking about the environment hop on all the other Christmas present threads, raging at people buying their kids plastic toys. And I’m sure their children will be getting a plastic free compost kit and some beeswax wraps for Christmas.

Also interesting that the stereotypically “boyish” activities are seen as more worth than stereotypically “feminine” interests.

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Exactly.

mam0918 · 14/11/2022 14:18

Im getting DS a fridge.

Its a pretty common xmas gift, I mean who cares if she keeps cans of fanta or a cold gel eyemask in it.

Mini fridges have been around forever (without burning houses down) they are hardly a new fangled thing with no safety record.

mam0918 · 14/11/2022 14:29

pinkksugarmouse · 13/11/2022 23:56

🤦🏻‍♀️ FFS! At no point did I say an 11yr old couldn’t have a mini fridge. I don’t care if the OP buys her 20 flaming fridges. I volunteer with this age group and skincare is not a concern ever mentioned. However I OP wants to buy her 11yr old the entire beauty counter of her nearest Selfridges that’s her choice.

I still think it’s sad and odd. That’s my opinion. Done.

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Strange when I was 12 it was a big thing.

Its right at the onset of pubity when everyones skin was changing, I had my first facial at 12 at the local beauty studio (people where having their birthdays there regularly). My best friend at that age had horrific cystic acne and was HYPER paranoid and into trying any potion to fix it and we ALL where fighting the joys of blackheads in the T-zone.

Yes SOME kids (like my DS) are smelly little stereotypical teen unwashed boys who if left to their own devices would dodge the tooth brush, try to sleep in their clothes and think a milisecond spray of lynxs = clean but many girls and boys I know definately care about avoiding blackheads and zits from the zery start of secondary school age.

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