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"Confidence is always the most beautiful thing."

Jessica Alba is prioritizing self-care these days. Pre-pandemic, the actor and Honest Beauty founder admits that she wasn’t always allotting herself enough time to “reset and recalibrate,” but in the last two years, she’s made more of an effort to pamper herself in her free time.

“At the very least on the weekends, I make sure that I give myself a mini facial and I take a bath—that’s my peaceful moment,” she tells Women's Health. “I wasn’t really doing that as much before. I was just sort of letting one day run into the next.”

Alba’s bath time go-tos are bath bombs, Epsom salt, and the Honest Beauty Prime + Perfect Mask, but when she’s in the mood to really clear her head, she adds another special ingredient into the mix. “Sometimes I add a little bit of Himalayan salt and sprinkle a little bit of baking soda,” she says. “A healer told me that I should do that because it cleanses your energy.”

Though a big part of her current beauty routine puts an emphasis on self-care and wellness, Alba hasn’t completely turned her back on makeup. One of her more recent Instagram posts is a video of her demo-ing her brand’s newest product, the Fresh Flex Concealer, by trying out TikTok’s concealer/bronzer/blush hack in which you apply all three of the aforementioned products at once and blend them in from lightest to darkest.

While she clearly isn’t afraid to try her hand at a TikTok beauty trend, she’s also well aware of the toxic beauty advice that runs rampant on the app and the damaging effects it can have on young people when it goes viral. It’s for that reason that the mom of three closely monitors who her eldest daughter, Honor Marie Warren, 14, follows on social media.

“I make sure that she has a diverse enough group of people and I'll unfollow if she has too many of the people who have completely unrealistic beauty standards,” she says. “If you get fed enough of that information, it brainwashes you.”

Alba also makes sure to combat unrealistic beauty advice by reinforcing her own positive advice. Her most valuable tip? Confidence is everything.

“Confidence is always the most beautiful thing,” she says. “It’s not a certain skin tone or skin texture or hair style or features. I try to show [my kids] all different kinds of people and how cool it is that not everyone looks the same, because how boring would our world be?”