"This seems counter-intuitive, but somehow children seem to be getting the idea that they need these products.

Is there anything the Federal Trade Commission could do about this?"

There is no doubt in my mind that vulnerable teenagers with still developing brains are a lucrative marketplace for marketers to mass produce "objective needs" and make huge profits. Such groomed adolescents become GenZ with unadulterated fantasies. How truly tragic that FTC may not have the power to stop because it is so generalized now.