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A smaller bottle is not a smaller dose

SCCS opinions cap salicylates by age and by product type. Teen skin gets a mild keratolytic, a sunscreen that gets worn, and a handoff when the finding leaves cosmetics.

2026-11-21 · Read

October / November 2026

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Youth culture and sensory design

The rabbit is a microphone with a return address

Voice that leaves the device for a default third-country cloud is a file, not a feature. Retailers want local processing, a deletion window, and the Cyber Resilience Act clock that has already started.

Lin Chen · 2026-11-20

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Youth culture and sensory design

PLA snaps. The leaf on the carton does not catch it.

Unmodified polylactic acid is brittle beside toy-grade ABS. Lignin stiffens the melt. Impact modifiers, drying, and EN 71-3 on the coloured compound are the buying lines.

Marc Oberst · 2026-11-19

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Youth culture and sensory design

A weight the hand can read, and a flasher that should have stayed off

Proprioception wants mass in grams and an edge inside EN 71-1. Plasticisers, small parts and a buzzer held to the ear undercut the object the carton is selling.

Marc Oberst · 2026-11-18

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Salon economics

The reel ends when someone answers with a real slot

Follower counts decorate a profile. Conversion sits in the first reply: service, price, and a link that opens a minute the diary can actually keep.

Lin Chen · 2026-11-17

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Salon economics

The backbar and the shelf are two businesses in one bottle

A professional size subsidises the hour. Retail has to turn. Clinics that share one item master watch both margins turn into a shortage at stocktake.

Lin Chen · 2026-11-16

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Salon economics

The multiple is a cleaned EBITDA. The teaser is scenery.

Funds buying aesthetic clinics across DACH in 2026 price a normalised result. Earn-out levers, the name, and who still holds medical leadership belong on the table before any letter of intent.

Lin Chen · 2026-11-15

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