Expensive sleepaway camps are BANNING luxury skincare products for Sephora obsessed tweens

As tweens go much and much obsessed pinch luxury skincare products from brands for illustration Drunk Elephant astatine Sephora, they person trouble parting pinch them, moreover astatine summertime camp. 

Summer campy is nary longer astir roughing it - instead, campers arsenic young arsenic 8 for illustration to battalion serums and lotions that costs upwards of $100.  

Some exclusive summertime camps person banned nan pricey products this summer, which has caused rather an uproar among campers pinch multi-part skincare routines. 

Business Insider reported that Camp Mataponi, an all-girls sleepaway campy successful Maine, which charges $16,800 for nan summer, and Tyler Hill Camp successful Pennsylvania, a coed campy that costs $17,775, some sent letters discouraging bringing beauty products. 

At Somerset Camp for Girls successful Maine, which costs $16,300 for nan afloat summer, each Sephora products are strictly forbidden.

In nan spring, nan camp posted a blog asking parents to 'please refrain from sending immoderate Sephora (and similar) accessories to camp.'

The blog station read: 'We cognize that skincare and constitution are celebrated and judge that they person a spot successful nan lives of a maturing young person, but they are NOT needed for a summertime campy experience.' 

The station besides warned that beardown scents could perchance pull mosquitoes and that 'this obsession pinch "skin care" is consuming our kids much and much each day.'

The campy explained, 'They DO NOT request perfume, a regular six-step skincare routine, aliases excessive amounts of makeup,' but clarified that campers who were older than sixth graders could deterioration a mini magnitude of constitution for socials pinch boy's camps if it 'helps them consciousness comfortable and strong.' 

In The New York Times, a campy counsellor successful Maryland shared a communicative astir a 10-year-old telling her she needed an anti-aging pick contempt nan beauty prohibition because she wanted 'baby skin.' 

On TikTok, contented creators are poking nosy astatine nan Sephora tweens who are hopeless to bring their skincare hauls to camp, pinch New York City-based influencer Chloe Hechter responding directly to The New York Times communicative astir banned beauty products. 

The creator joked pinch her 50,000 followers astir Gen Alpha desperately wanting to bring favorites for illustration Sol de Janiero, Tower 28, Dior Glow Oil, Glow Recipe, Supergoop, and Rare Beauty. 

Plenty of counselors took to Chloe's comments to stock their ain experiences pinch cosmetics obsessed campers who couldn't skip their multi-step skincare routines. 

One campy counsellor responded, 'Literally conscionable had a camper past week who BIT different woman because she was washing her hands during her skincare routine,' arsenic different agreed, 'I americium a campy counsellor and I person ne'er seen thing much existent successful my full life.' 

One erstwhile counsellor said, 'I had a compartment afloat of 13-year-olds and nan skincare was WILD. Honestly, huffy respect for them sticking to nan 20-minute regular doubly a time each time for a month.' 

A counsellor weighed in: 'Nah because I was seeing 10-year-olds pinch Drunk Elephant successful their ablution caddies astatine campy this year.' 

'I cognize nan mosquitos loved her,' a commenter joked astir nan clone camper Chloe was playing, who covered herself successful perfume, arsenic different wrote, 'Not nan spider spray!' referencing nan chaotic (and later disproven) declare that Sol de Janeiro's Delícia Body Butter attracted wolf spiders.

But for some, nan prohibition connected beauty products - and sending campers packages afloat of Sephora hauls - is real. 

'No packages allowed astatine my kiddos camp,' 1 mom explained.