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"Listen, it&amp;#x27;s not every day you talk beauty products with an Oscar nominee. But that&amp;#x27;s exactly what I did last week when I met with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Hustle and Flow actress Taraji P. Henson. Taraji recently teamed up with Jergens to spread the word about their new line of shea butter moisturizers, and we sat down to talk soft skin, going back to her roots, and (duh) Brad Pitt. GLAMOUR: Want to share a little bit about the products and how you got involved with Jergens? Taraji P. Henson: What I love about Jergens is that this is the first time that I&amp;amp;#8217;ve witnessed a company going over [to West Africa] to help the women who provide them with shea butter become a little bit more economically independent. They&amp;amp;#8217;ve partnered with the Global Shea Alliance, and that company basically helps empower the women. They build more houses for them to store the nut, to make more product, so they can provide for their family. So that touched me. Not only that, I have a connection to West Africa; my roots extend back there on my grandmother&amp;amp;#8217;s side to Cameroon so it&amp;amp;#8217;s kinda like the universe wanted me to be the voice. I&amp;amp;#8217;m supposed to be the voice for Jergens, it&amp;amp;#8217;s crazy. I want people to know that they can watch the video at jergens.com/radiance, because it&amp;amp;#8217;s really a beautiful and powerful documentary. It&amp;amp;#8217;s about these women who, this is ritual for them; they wake up in the morning, they dance down to wherever the shea nuts are, they collect the nuts. This is something they pass down generation to generation. And they take pride in what they do. For them it&amp;amp;#8217;s not really about making money. They want to provide for their family. It&amp;amp;#8217;s just amazing that Jergens is able to step in and help them. GLAMOUR: As far as your skin routine, what do you make sure to do every day? Taraji: Well, I always wash my face. GLAMOUR: That&amp;amp;#8217;s good! Not everyone does. Taraji: I wash my face in the morning and at night. I drink a lot of water. You have to stay hydrated. As far as my hair...I wrap my hair at night because that&amp;amp;#8217;s less heat on it everyday. I&amp;amp;#8217;m a health whore, for lack of a better word. I love healthy hair. I love healthy skin. I love skin that glows. That&amp;amp;#8217;s why I love this shea butter, because I put it on and I feel like, when I go home and I go to bed I take my clothes off, I feel like I&amp;amp;#8217;ve just put lotion on. And I only put it on once a day. I use the cream for my feet and I put socks on at night. GLAMOUR: Changing gears a little bit, you&amp;amp;#8217;ve worked with some handsome men like Brad Pitt and Terrence Howard&amp;amp;#133; Taraji: Well, the thing about Brad Pitt, I&amp;amp;#8217;m not gonna tick that one off yet because I never said I wanted to play his mother. That&amp;amp;#8217;s not sexy. I was thinking, like, a sexy role, not his mother. GLAMOUR: Well, among some of the actors you&amp;amp;#8217;ve worked with, as their mother or their lover, which guy had the nicest skin? Taraji: I would have to say Tyrese. It&amp;amp;#8217;s not fair because he&amp;amp;#8217;s a model, but he does have very beautiful skin. I think the darker the complexion, the richer the skin. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t know. He is a good-looking man. But he was very young too, and he doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t grow a lot of facial hair so you can really see how smooth his skin is. Still to this day, he&amp;amp;#8217;s in his thirties now, he still doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t have a lot of facial hair so you can really see his skin. It&amp;amp;#8217;s beautiful. How adorable is she? Be sure to check out the short documentary Taraji narrated for Jergens, it&amp;#x27;s quite moving! Photo: Getty Images; courtesy of Jergens"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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