A guide to 149 drugstore items, according to 109 famous people
Photo: New York Magazine/Portraits from Getty Images/Products courtesy of the retailers When we started reporting on the stuff that famous people can’t live without, we wanted to know about the hand sanitizer and deodorant that they add to their carts. And boy, did we learn about a thing or two — or thousands.
$23 at Amazon Buy $23 at Amazon Buy Burt’s Bees 100% Natural Moisturizing Beeswax Lip Balm Good Morning America co-host Michael Strahan, Architectural Digest’s Keith Pollock, and actor Noah Schnapp all count on this balm to keep their lips moisturized, and Pollock also uses it to calm his nerves. “Because the Burt’s is a yellow tube, it’s sort of disguised in your palm. It’s a good trick,” he told us. “If you’re ever speaking at a wedding or something, put something in your hand.
$5 at Amazon Buy ChapStick Total Hydration Pink Nude Tint Tinted Moisturizer $3 At first, Rebel Wilson balked at her makeup artist’s ChapStick recommendation. But now the actress always keeps it in her handbag. “This keeps your lips moisturized, but with a bit of tint, so it looks like your lips but just extremely enhanced rather than like makeup,” Wilson told us. “And if I lose it, I can just go to CVS and get another one, which is my favorite part.
$13 for 8 at Amazon Buy $13 for 8 at Amazon Buy Aquaphor Lip Repair Ointment Both Sutton Foster and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne say Aquaphor’s lip-repair ointment is for more than just lips. Foster uses it on chapped hands, and Jayne says, “I use this daily on my lips and sometimes on cuticles, my hands, feet, and even on the elbows.”
$7 at Amazon Buy $7 at Amazon Buy Smith’s Rosebud Lip Salve In a Tube Another fan of Smith’s Rosebud Salve is model Imaan Hammam, who has been using it in tube form daily since she was a teenager because “it’s easy to carry and apply.” $14 at Amazon Buy $14 at Amazon Buy L’Oréal Paris Carbon Black Voluminous Volume Building Mascara in Carbon Black Actress Sanaa Lathan learned about this mascara while working on The Affair and says “it puts all the other expensive mascaras at the department stores to shame. It stays on forever and almost makes you look like you have false eyelashes on.”
$11 at Ulta Beauty Buy $9 for 2 at Walmart Buy Simple Cleansing Facial Wipes “I love the fact that they’re not heavy on the face; a lot of wipes overdo it with fragrance, or even the cloth itself can be a bit rough. I think makeup wipes should be clean and straight to it — that’s why I love the Simple ones,” says model Duckie Thot, who has been using these wipes morning and night for the past six years.
$9 at Ulta Beauty Buy OPI Nail Lacquer"A Little Guilt Under The Kilt" Of OPI polishes, meanwhile, Bissinger says that they “last up to three weeks.” He calls this: “A shade of crimson bold enough to shock the shit out of my straight white male friends.” $11 at Amazon Buy $11 at Amazon Buy L'Oreal Paris Elnett Satin Extra Strong Hold Travel-Size Hairspray The final step in Peggy Siegal’s legendary beauty routine is this L’Oreal hairspray, which she only buys in travel size: “I use the travel size because I hate picking up a big heavy bottle,” she says. “I go through them fast, but a little one looks so much better.”
$5 for 3 at Amazon Buy $3 for 3 at Rite Aid Buy It’s a 10 Miracle Shampoo Plus Keratin, 10 Fl Oz $15 In addition to being known as a financial guru, Suze Orman says she is known for her hair, and credits this shampoo for keeping it “absolutely frizzless.” She adds: “When I travel now, I can blow out my own hair because of this shampoo. I don’t need to travel with a hair person.
$30 at Sephora Buy Cantu Shea Butter for Natural Hair Shampoo and Conditioner Compared to products that give your hair a too clean feeling, Keke Palmer says the shampoo and conditioner from Cantu makes your hair “actually feel moisturized. Cantu makes a deep conditioning one and a light conditioning one — I use both of them and alternate throughout the week,” she says of her three-times-a-week routine.
$59 for 2 at Amazon Buy $59 for 2 at Amazon Buy From the body-care aisle Arm & Hammer Essentials Fresh Deodorant with Natural Deodorizers One day, when hugging her husband, Ellie Kemper told us she realized “something smelled really good. It turns out it was this deodorant. I believe it to be unisex, though some users have described it as a men’s deodorant. It doesn’t matter,” she says of the stick that she now buys in bulk.
$3 at Walmart Buy Old Spice High Endurance Long Lasting Fresh Deodorant $7 Apparently, writer Lesley Arfin and dancer Derek Hough agree with Bissinger, because both can’t live without Old Spice Fresh deodorant. Hough has worn the deodorant since childhood and says it smells “clean, fresh, and also a little bit nostalgic,” but to Arfin, whose husband wears the product, it smells like “a free ticket to the bone zone.
$5 at Amazon Buy $5 at Amazon Buy Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula Daily Skin Therapy Body Lotion When it comes to body moisturizer, both La La Anthony and Duckie Thot use Palmer’s Cocoa Butter. “It just stays on all day, and your skin looks so glowy. It’s not too thick,” says Thot, who uses the lotion every day after showering.
$9 at Amazon Buy $9 at Amazon Buy Eucerin Advanced Repair Hand Cream, 2.7 Ounce $5 Dr. Sandra Lee, who is also known as TLC’s Dr. Pimple Popper, also loves Eucerin, and uses the brand’s inexpensive, fragrance-free hand lotion because other “hand lotions out there are supposed to be very moisturizing but contain fragrances, which actually will dry out the skin.”
$16 at Walmart Buy Dr. Bronner’s Pure-Castile Liquid Soap, Lavender Phoebe Robinson also uses the multi-purpose Dr. Bronner’s soap, but she prefers the lavender scent. “I love it because it’s lavender-scented. It leaves my skin clean and smooth because there’s just not a lot of junk in it. It’s like a massage and pedicure and a getaway every day,” she says.
$4 at Amazon Buy $4 at Amazon Buy From the oral-hygiene aisle Oral-B Glide Pro-Health Comfort Plus Dental Floss, Mint “They say if you don’t floss, it’s like not wiping your ass. Take your vitamin D, listen to Poison, and floss,” says actor Dylan McDermott, who told us this is his preferred floss. $17 for 6 at Amazon Buy $2 at Walmart Buy Waterpik Aquarius Water Flosser 662 $66 At the behest of his dentist, Buzz Bissinger purchased the Waterpik-662 in 2018. “It is not my style to get excited over oral hygiene, but the flosser works and feels great, and after a lousy day of writing, provides me with a surprising feeling of accomplishment,” he says.
$87 at Amazon Buy $87 at Amazon Buy Listerine Total Care Zero Alcohol Anticavity Mouthwash “This is great because it’s alcohol-free, so it’s good if you have sensitive gums. If I don’t use this before I go to bed, I can’t sleep,” says drag queen, RuPaul’s Drag Race alum, and winner of All Stars 3 Trixie Mattel.
$9 for 6 at Amazon Buy $9 for 6 at Amazon Buy Philips Sonicare ProtectiveClean 4100 Plaque Control Matt Walsh, a self-described junk-food aficionado, calls this vibrating toothbrush “a revelation in my life. I find it makes your teeth cleaner and it feels like you have technology on your side, running around inside your mouth killing all those cavities.”
$3 at Walmart Buy Clorox Disinfecting Wipes Plus Clorox Disinfecting Wipes with Micro-Scrubbers “Everything with drag is kind of gross. I come back from a gig and my vanity is a mess. Or if I’m working on a wig, the table just gets a film on it from all the hairspray. So, I use these to clean everything,” says Trixie Mattel.
$7 for 3 at Amazon Buy Air Wick Freshmatic Automatic Spray Freshener Starter Kit $19 Actor Tituss Burgess loves candles and potpourri, but says that he stocks up on these “delish” linen-scented air fresheners because he has “two dogs and need[s] to make sure my home is nice and fresh.” $11 for 2 at Amazon Buy $11 for 2 at Amazon Buy Purell Advanced Hand Sanitizer Refreshing Gel $14 On the other hand, La La Anthony uses Purell “multiple times throughout the day,” and has bottles attached to all of her son’s bags. “I think being a mom, you just get in the habit of having it everywhere you go,” she adds.
$10 at Terrain Buy $10 at Jao Brand Buy From the health and wellness aisle Aleve PM Pain Reliever and Nighttime Sleep-Aid Caplets, 80 count $13 Vivica A. Fox finds it hard to fall asleep with the demands of her busy schedule, so she depends on Aleve PM for easier shut-eye. She adds that the medicine “helps with my aches and inflammation from running around or working out too much.”
$9 at Amazon Buy $9 at Amazon Buy Opcon-A Eye Drops Interior designer Ken Fulk is a pet-parent to four dogs and a cat, and thinks he is “mildly allergic to all of them.” After going through a bunch of other drugstore eye drops, he found these ones, which he says “actually lubricate. I can’t leave home without them.”
$4 at Amazon Buy $4 at Amazon Buy CVS Health Superior Soft Foam Earplugs “I’m a hardy, big-boned Korean girl, but when it comes to my hearing, I’m more like delicate rose petals,” says author Min Jin Lee, who told us she has been known to “march right out of fascinating parties because my ears start ringing.” That’s why she never leaves home without at least two pairs of these earplugs.
$70 at Amazon Buy Superfeet Blue Insoles Emmy Award–winning television star Guy Fieri first learned about Superfeet orthotics when he was working long hours on his feet during college, and continues to use them to this day. “I rip the insoles out of all my shoes and use a different version of Superfeet in all of them,” he told us.
$15 at Target Buy Solgar Liquid Melatonin, 2 Oz Eve told us she can’t sleep through the night, which is where liquid melatonin comes into play. “I take three-to-five milligrams no more than three times a week and find I don’t wake up as much,” she says of her regimen . $5 at Amazon Buy $6 at Ulta Beauty Buy Dr Teal’s Pure Epsom Salt Soaking Solution with Eucalyptus Spearmint Designer Zac Posen also unwinds by soaking in an Epsom-salt bath, but he opts for the eucalyptus scent, saying it is “incredibly soothing, especially when the seasons are changing.” Posen adds: “It clears your sinuses, and I think the Epsom salts are supposed to pull out toxins.”
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