Camp do-not-pack list: Phones, knives, and ... skincare?

Parents everywhere are dutifully reading over camp packing lists and buying bug spray, rain ponchos, and water bottles to send with their kids on their summer adventures. But this year the list of what not to bring has a surprising addition: Luxury skincare.

One camp director said the products created “unnecessary competition.” Other camps noted that children don’t need “a daily six-step skincare routine,” and that campers are “supposed to get down and dirty, not spend their time slathering on face cream.”