What Halle Berry (Still) Can’t Live Without
If you’re like us, you’ve probably wondered what everyday stuff famous people add to their carts — like mascara or a sleep mask. Back in 2021, we asked Halle Berry — who is the founder of wellness site Respin as well as the chief communications officer for probiotics brand Pendulum — about the things she can’t live without. Five years later, we asked her to revisit her original list, which you can read here. Turns out she still swears by several of her old picks, like Our Place’s Always Pan and Resorè towels, but she has several new favorites, too.
The do-it-all pan she’s still using
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The Always pan is just money. I got those pans around the time we did this interview last time and I remember saying it changed my life, and I have to say that’s really true. I’m still obsessed. They have revolutionized cooking and cleaning. They’re safe. They cook everything evenly, at the right pace. They’re easy to clean. You can make a great stew. You can fry things in them. You can make steaks and pork chops, but you can also make a great roux. You can make spaghetti sauce, a chili, a soup. They’re really great pans, and I haven’t replaced them. My Always Pans are the same set I got originally, and they still look as good as they did the day I got them. So I’m still on the Always Pan train.
The towels that hold up after years
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These are great. I hope they never stop making them because they’re super fluffy. They dry you off really quickly. There’s nothing worse than getting out of shower feeling like you can’t really get dry, at least for me. I just can’t think of a reason why I should ever stop using them. They look good. If you take care of them, you can have them for a very long time. I think it’s a great value for the money. I still have some from five years ago in the rotation. I’ve replenished a few, but they really do last a long time. It depends how you like your towels to look: Do you want them to always look fresh and new, or are you okay using tried-and-true ones if they still work? I’m a little bit of both.
The face serum that keeps her skin feeling fresh
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This is an oil created by my longtime aesthetician of 25 years, Olga Lorencin. She came out with it probably about five years ago, and I’ve been using it ever since. The whole conversation in skin care right now is all about peptides, and it’s full of a bunch of yummy peptides. I use it at night, and it really keeps my skin feeling moist and fresh and youthful. This is something I cannot go to bed at night without using. I think it’s at a very good price point for what it is. It’s not cheap, but it’s not overly expensive. It can last you up to two months. It’s not a lot of fluff. It’s the real deal.
I’m loyal to her products. I’ve tried other products to see what’s out there, but I always keep coming back to her skin-care line. She’s always at the forefront of innovation, and she does it without a lot of fanfare. She does it because she loves skin. She loves chemistry. I swear by her.
The nutritious gummies her whole family takes
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I’m a woman down the path of life — I just turned 60. So I’m really all about longevity and health and wellness. That’s what my life orbits around. Grüns is an easy way for me and my family to get those vitamins and minerals and fiber that we need that we might not be able to get in a day. I’m busy and I’m traveling and I’m doing all kinds of things, and I don’t always have time to sit down for a balanced meal. They’re super easy to keep in your bag, put in a kid’s backpack, take on a trip. It’s six little gummies per serving, and they actually taste really good. They’ve got new flavors now. I started taking them when they just had green, but now they have a mixed-berry flavor. They have a banana flavor, which the kids like. They have a sugar-free version that I actually take because I’m diabetic. So they’ve got something for all of us.
The cat scratcher that’s actually nice-looking
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I have four cats now. I rescued them all from my backyard — they showed up in my yard looking for a home, and I took them in. I have two dogs, but I’m also a cat mom. Bringing new cats in can be challenge because they scratch and tear up everything when they get bored. And in California, we can’t let our cats go outside. It’s not safe. So they have to be indoor cats, and giving them appropriate things to scratch on so that they don’t tear up your whole house is really important. But aesthetics are really important to me too, because some of these scratchers just look horrendous. They’re an eyesore. I came across these very elegantly designed cat scratchers from Mau that I keep all over my house. The design quality is super high, and they’ve been really effective in keeping the cats from scratching up all of our furniture.
The high-tech mattress that helped improve her sleep
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I found out I was in perimenopause when I was 54. I’m 60 now. Eight Sleep lets you control the temperature on your side of the bed, and your partner can control their side of the bed. For me, because I’ve gone through really bad hot flashes and the inability to sleep at night, being able to control the temperature on my side of the bed has been really, really important. It also gives you a sleep score and it tells you how well you slept, the quality of your sleep, when you woke up, when you tossed and turned. It gives you a lot of information about your sleep habits, and it alerted me to the fact that I wasn’t sleeping well. When I don’t have a good night’s sleep, or when I see that I have a bad score, that makes me think, Okay, I thought I was sleeping well, but I’m really not. So then what can I do to start improving my sleep? It’s not a cheap investment, but I think it’s one of those investments that you make once in your life where you will feel the benefits for years and years to come.
The daily probiotic and vaginal gel that have helped her navigate perimenopause
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The Metabolic Daily has been really instrumental. It contains a probiotic called Akkermansia. Everybody needs this strain, but as we get older, our bodies become depleted of Akkermansia. Metabolic Daily has Akkermansia and other strains that we need to keep our microbiome healthy and our gut health optimal, which has become really important to me in the last eight to ten years. It doesn’t have to be refrigerated, so it’s easy to travel with. You can take them on an empty stomach in the morning, or at night, which is also what I love about it. When I’m at home, I take them first thing in the morning because that’s when I take a lot of my vitamins. When I’m traveling, I take them whenever I remember. You don’t have to be rigid.
And I have talked openly about how the way I realized that I was in perimenopause was through a misdiagnosis of herpes, because I had vaginal atrophy. Everything was dry: my skin, my vagina. Around 65 percent of women experience dryness with perimenopause, but I think I have a chronic case of dryness. So this was a pain point for me, and I partnered with Joylux to come up with a product that could help so that I could have a normal and fulfilling sex life. The way you would use a daily facial moisturizer, this is like a vaginal moisturizer to keep it supple and moist. I use it three times a week, but you can use it every day if you want. It really does restore your vagina to your youthful years so that you can have spontaneity in your sex life and not have to deal with the pain that dryness can cause.
More celebrity favorites
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“For a basic, good white T-shirt, this is the best. I’ve gotten maybe ten of them now.”
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"These stay in. They can also tell when you have fallen asleep and switch to white noise."
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"I used to lose good glasses, and now I wear these. They cost $50. They're beautifully designed."
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"I wear them every day. They’re not so baggy that you look foolish. They’re pretty elegant."
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"You don’t have to be very skilled to do it and get a really long throw, so it’s really satisfying."
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"These get just hot enough, but I don’t feel like they’re going to burn my hands or my scalp."
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