It’s hard to not romanticize French-founded wonders and Parisian pharmacy staples like the Embryolisse’s Lait-Crème Concentré face cream, a truly luscious dry oil by Nuxe or a vitamin-rich serum that contains volcanic water straight from a spring in Vichy, France.

In February of last year, as videos of tweens racing to Sephora for beautifully packaged creams and serums that contained anti-aging chemicals flooded TikTok, a legislator in California tried to end that trend by introducing a bill that would stop stores from selling those products to them. It failed.

A California lawmaker is once again trying to restrict children from buying anti-aging skincare. The revamped bill would ban the sale of anti-aging skincare to children under 18. Assemblymember Alex Lee,