Whatever goes on their lips gets swallowed.
A two page swap list for teens and kids. If they love this, try that, with a named alternative for each one and the reason sitting beside it.
Where should we send it?
Two pages, free.
- Named products you can buy here
- Three label checks that take ten seconds
- Swaps a teenager will actually accept
What is on the list
Twelve swaps across two pages, each one naming a specific product rather than a category.
For teens
- Body mists and perfume, scented body creams, and the multi-step routine with retinol and acids that young skin does not need
- Foundation, everyday sunscreen and the scented lip oils, with named alternatives from brands they already know
- Why the word "fragrance" on a label can stand for a blend the company never has to list
- The three ten second checks: flip it over, check the lips, and drop a product
For kids, and the label glossary
- Character lip balms, nail polish, bubble bath and bath bombs, with versions that keep the fun part
- Character skincare sets and kids' sunscreen, and the one category we suggest skipping altogether
- Ice treasure for the bath, which costs nothing and buys you twenty minutes
- Every label term explained in plain English: endocrine disruptor, phthalates, parfum, benzophenone-3, paraffinum liquidum, zinc oxide
She has an eleven step routine and I do not know what half of it is.
Most of what is in a teenager's bathroom sits on their skin all day, and anything that goes on lips ends up swallowed. Puberty is also one of the stretches of life when the body is most responsive to endocrine disruptors, meaning chemicals that can interfere with hormone signalling, the messages hormones carry around the body.
Two examples. Phthalates are used in fragrance to make scent last, and are recognised endocrine disruptors, which is why a product can smell of a dozen things while the label says only "parfum". Benzophenone-3, a chemical sunscreen filter, is absorbed through the skin, and its use is now restricted in Europe.
The absorption itself is well demonstrated. What those levels do over years is far less settled. So the approach here is to reduce what is easy to reduce, rather than to spend any energy worrying about the rest.
Why we made it
Telling a fourteen year old to stop using products does not work, and it should not have to. Every row on this list keeps the thing they like and changes what is in it, which is why the swaps tend to stick.
The simplest win is on the third line of the page. Every product dropped is one less layer sitting on their skin all day, and for most teenagers the routine is doing more than it needs to anyway.
Products are checked and named as at October 2026. Formulas change, so the list asks you to read the label before you buy rather than trusting a brand forever.
Send me the swap list
Free, two pages.
General information only, not individual advice. Product details were checked in October 2026 and formulas change, so read the label before you buy. We have no commercial relationship with any brand named. © The Family Naturopath, The KAN Clinic.