The Outset is a minimalist skincare brand that provides exceptional products for everyone, doing away with unnecessary ingredients and harmful stereotypes. With an approach to skincare that is mindful and minimalist, Scarlett says she wants The Outset to be "universal, approachable, and as reliable as your favorite white tee - a classic staple"

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December 11, 2023  /  Owner

Harpersbazaar – Since overcoming skin struggles in the public eye, Scarlett Johansson pulled back from beauty endorsements and co-curated her own skincare line, one that bucks trends in favour of dependability. Here she tells Bazaar about the arc of her skincare journey.

If there’s one thing many of us share with multi award-winning Hollywood superstar Scarlett Johansson – the highest-grossing box office star of all time – it’s the experience of skin struggles.

“I started having acne as a teenager,” she tells me, though in her unique situation, Johansson was working at the time. Since making her movie debut around age 10, the now 38-year-old gained early recognition for various roles before her big breakthrough in Lost in Translation, filmed when she was 17. “I was going through puberty and experiencing that first kind of problem breakout, which I thought would go away with time, but I continued to have acne into my adulthood.” Johansson couldn’t get her head around it. “I just never thought I would struggle; I had so many resources like great dermatologists and beauty experts and make-up artists.” But, in many ways, this privilege complicated matters. “At the time so much of the messaging was like if you have acne or ‘problem skin’, you can make it disappear by stripping it away, and so I was in a cycle of drying out my skin and then having these breakouts and drying out my skin and getting irritation. I would get rid of some spots and then others would turn up in another part of my face – I couldn’t figure out how to heal it for decades.”

Besides having access to professionals on tap, turbulent teenage skin feels particularly relatable. But so, too, does the adult experience of employing harsh active ingredients in a bid for impossible complexion perfection, all the while further unbalancing the microbiome.

“Terrified” of putting any kind of moisturiser on her face, Johansson shares that she did so, as what she perceived a desperate measure. “I was like ‘maybe I’ll just stop using everything and try to heal my skin by putting this moisture back in’, and my skin immediately responded to it and started healing itself.” She didn’t realise at the time, “but I was now nourishing and protecting my skin barrier” – a term penetrating collective consciousness as the pendulum has swung back to simplicity in skincare, following years of complicated, multi-step routines touted as the only way to refine texture and welcome radiance. “I started just using very gentle products, a lot of moisture, and being consistent with my routine. If I veered from it, I would have an issue, and if not, it would stay calm – and that’s that was a huge revelation for me.”

Looking at the star’s skin, you’d never know its chequered past. She is the ultimate ad for her own brand, The Outset, which she co-founded with her business partner, American entrepreneur Kate Foster – who joined Johansson in talking to me about its UK launch. I question if the actress (who chooses to eschew social media in a personal capacity) always saw herself as the face of The Outset, “a reliable line of essentials”?

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