He’s the actor and comedian behind ocker conspiracy theorist character Cunny, but Josh Wade is more interested in self-actualisation and well-priced cosmetics than his cheeky alter ego.

What’s thrilling

Someone in my family sells a product that she says is not part of a pyramid scheme, but it is. The thing is, the product, Arbonne, is really good. Growing up I had really bad acne and I get psoriasis. I used all these different products but could never find anything that actually seemed to treat my skin well. I think it’s the fact Arbonne is botanically based, not full of chemicals, that really helped. As soon as I used it, I thought “Oh no, it actually works”.

I never used to care about my skin, but at the end of the day, I have to take photos all of the time so it’s much more important than what I used to think it was. The face cleanser the RE9 has really softened up my masculinity – and my face.

Russell Brand’s book about addiction is coming out and that’s one I’m really excited to read. In today’s society, we all have an addictive personality because we’re using Facebook and that’s like using the slot machines. My job is in that world so I’m trying to release myself from as many addictive demons as possible.

I’m excited about Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck because I suppose we all give too much of a fuck. People get wound up because someone doesn’t go in three seconds at a red light. Then you meet each other at the next red light and you think “We each didn’t get there any faster so why do we give a fuck?”

I find in general everyone needs to take a step back and go: “It is what it is.” I don’t necessarily believe in a God in a white robe but the universe works in mysterious ways. There’s something bigger running this shit so I need to stop giving a fuck as much and just listen to my intuition.

What’s nostalgia-inducing

One product that has stayed with me forever is Dickinson’s Witch Hazel. The girl who used to live across the road from me who I had the hots for growing up, had some. She said “use that on your pimples” and I did and it worked. If I’m running through a town on tour, Coles has always got Witch Hazel on the shelf and that will freshen me up. It’s cheap as well – it’s one ingredient.

I don’t want to say The Secret [self-help book by Rhonda Byrne], but it’s probably The Secret. With a lot of people who are into this sort of stuff, it’s the starting point, it’s the Play School version of the Laws of Attraction.

I read it when I was 16 and had all these grand ideas for my life. I’m someone who definitely believes in what you put out there, you’ll receive, in all facets of life. That’s why it links back in with not giving a fuck. The more I give a fuck, the more negativity surrounds me and it’s a flow-on effect.

Everything I’ve ever thought of and everything I’ve ever wanted, if I’ve worked towards that predetermined goal, I’ve got there. It’s a really simple rule of the universe that if I didn’t read that book in the beginning, it wouldn’t have allowed me to then follow on with that mindset through life and knowing more about it.

What I keep going back to

Cotton buds. I constantly have cotton buds; everywhere I travel I take a big pack of cotton buds. I’ll clean my ears all day every day. They say you’re not supposed to do that, that you’ll go deaf, but I’ll go deaf before I give that thing up. I’ll be deaf but I can still feel, and it feels good.

I don’t reread any books. It’s not in one ear, out the other, but once I’ve taken something in, I don’t like going back and revisiting it. I take what I get out of it in the first experience. That’s why sex gets boring with the same person – I don’t want to go back and redo it: been there, done that.

• Wade is currently touring his stand-up show Me, Myself and Cunny