Beauty
Natural Beauty Travel Essentials Don’t leave home without ‘em! By Kristen Ma, co-owner Pure + Simple
With whittled down office hours and the kids off from
Layer for Flexibility: Going on a multi-city trip or contiki tour?
school, this season is perfect for getting your travel on. But one
When travelling to different places, you need to prep your skin for
challenge when setting out to go abroad is maintaining a balanced
contrasting climates. Bring a flexible regime consisting of a light-
complexion despite dehydrating plane flights, fluctuating climates,
textured serum and all-natural face oil. The serum maintains the water
and traveler’s fatigue. Although exciting, visiting far-off places can
content in your skin and the facial oil locks in nourishment and offers
be overwhelming, and caring for your skin and body can be very
protection. You can use one or the other, or both, depending on what
grounding. Consider these tips for on-the-go beauty while packing
your complexion needs, and you can tailor your choices to the weather
your bags for a summer holiday.
each day!
Pack a Post-Plane Hydrating Mask: The recirculated air
Use a Cure-All Anti-Bac Hydrosol: Hydrosols are steam-
of plane travel is incredibly drying; it dehydrates your skin and stresses
distilled plant waters, and having one derived from an antibacterial
your complexion, prompting pesky breakouts and eczema flare-ups.
flower is always useful while away. As nature’s Polysporin, disinfecting
Thankfully, a hydrating mask treatment can replenish your skin upon
hydrosols such as witch hazel, lavender, and peppermint treat
landing. Gel paper masks soaked in restorative ingredients such as aloe
breakouts, bug bites, cuts, and scrapes and can even be used as an
vera, collagen, and hyaluronic acid are especially convenient and thin
all-natural hand sanitizer. Unlike alcohol-based products, they offer
enough to slip into your carry-on.
purifying properties for beauty emergencies without drying your skin. A must have for your travel pack.
Scrub Away Sweat and Smog: Keep your skin glowing while abroad with a good exfoliating treatment. If visiting a big bustling
Stay Cool with Beauty Tools: If feeling frazzled in a foreign
city, detoxify your pores of pollution, smog, and exhaust after a day of
place, simple grooming pleasures can help to restore some order.
sightseeing. Or if travelling around a hot, tropical country, cleanse your
Keeping your eyebrows well shaped, your nails clean and trim, and your
skin of excess sweat and sebum. In a foreign place, it’s best to exfoliate
teeth pearly white are a small homage to your at-home routine. It’s easy
with a mild scrub, avoiding intensive treatments that could cause
to pack beauty tools such as tweezers, nail clippers, files, and extra
irritation. You don’t want to deal with that sans your usual beauty team!
toothbrush heads that keep you looking polished. Ayurvedic tongue
Opt for gentle exfoliating ingredients like jojoba wax beads, which
scrapers or Korean body scrub gloves are especially effective in helping
slough away dead skin cells without being abrasive.
you feel clean and refreshed.
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