It’s nearly fall in New York, where the actress Jessica Chastain lives just off a wilting Central Park. But it’s still summer in Santa Monica, where Chastain recently found herself, steps from the lapping waves. Today’s performance was in service to True Botanicals, a luxurious clean-skin-care label where “clean” refers to its five different certifications but also to the way one might describe the design of a Khaite sweater. True Botanicals launched in 2014, practically a century ago as luxuriously-clean-skin-care labels go. Its Californian heritage perhaps explains the brand’s continued kinship to actor-producers like Chastain, who have lent their faces and endorsements over the past decade. In 2017, Olivia Wilde served as “chief brand activist”; Laura Dern’s favorites are a shoppable online collection. For the last year or so, Chastain’s pottery-perfect skin has been splashed everywhere across the brand’s Web site and advertising, and the components of her morning and evening routines are made seamlessly available for purchase. Three products, including a syrup powered by chebula-fruit extract, “leave my skin looking so plump and radiant!” Chastain’s partnership with True Botanicals “really aligns with what I feel about the world, what I feel about my body,” she told Air Mail Look. She also cheerfully consented to a conversation in which she would provide her opinions and reactions when prompted by a single fruit, vegetable, or other item of greenery, because this too is in alignment with her values: Chastain is a self-professed plant freak and a vegan of 16 years’ standing. “I did joke to someone who asked if I’d want to play a superhero,” she couldn’t help but add, “that the one who would actually make sense is Poison Ivy.”
Blueberries
“I find that with blueberries, you definitely need to get them organic.”
