My skin is always a little trickier in the wintertime – on a 1 to 10 scale of dryness, I’m a six thousand – and when you add in travel on top of it, there’s some serious potential for disaster. You know when you get breakouts and dryness at the same time, and don’t really know how to handle either situation because the remedy for one issue only seems to make the other worse?
That.
But! It is totally handle-able, and the way to deal is to go for the gentlest possible skincare routine, one that lets your skin chill out and breathe and find its way back to normal. In the past, I’ve been an oh-I’ll-just-use-whatever-soap-is-in-the-hotel-room person, but no mas, because really: it’s just as easy to throw a few travel-friendly products in my bag so I can take my regular routine with me wherever I go.
My Holiday Travel Beauty Essentials
- When I’m at home I use Simple Skincare’s Moisturizing Facial Wash during the winter months, but when I’m traveling I take the Cleansing Wipes, which get off dirt and makeup without irritating skin and make life easier when, say, turning on the lights and the faucet in the hotel room bathroom to wash your face may result in the awakening of a toddler and/or infant;
- SW Basics Vegan Cream, with coconut and olive oil, for cuticles and dry spots on the body (ooh, it’s such good stuff, and since it’s totally organic I use it on my kids’ dry spots, too);
- Simple Skincare Eye Make-up Remover Pads – a total travel essential, these come with me everywhere;
- A few go-with-everything pieces of jewelry, like my Mom Pendant and a bunch of cigar band rings;
- The Honest Co. hand sanitizer purse spray, because nothing is less pretty than a cold, and three-year-olds are tiny germ machines;
- A slouchy hat to keep flyaway hair under control (rubbing a little leftover moisturizer into the very ends after you moisturize your face also helps).
- A sleep mask to help with jetlag;
- Sunglasses and red lipstick (NARS Audacious Lipstick in Carmen), for the occasional I-was-out-too-late-last-night emergency situation.
