This actor completely detoxed her beauty bag

Memorizing scripted lines may be part of her job, but actor Kate Mansi wasn’t about to start memorizing the 1,328 ingredients banned from cosmetics by the European Union. That’s the overwhelming task the Daytime Emmy winner initially thought she’d set for herself when she resolved to detox her beauty bag in 2018. She’d learned there’s been no update to U.S. cosmetics regulation law (which bans or restricts only 11 ingredients) since 1938. So Mansi decided to get her beauty routine 100 percent clean and nontoxic herself. And that meant removing thousands of ingredients from her vanity. “If I’m putting something on my skin, I want to know where it comes from because the reality is, we’re always making a choice as consumers,” explains the actor, who’s known for her recurring role on Days of Our Lives. “I want to feel that my outsides reflect my insides—that I’m making good choices, having an awareness and not pretending that my choices don’t have a massive impact.” But with controversial ingredients lurking in so many products, how did she make the transition? Mansi sat down with alive to share how she did it—and spilled the clean beauty hacks she’s learned along the way.