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How to Travel with Skin Care

How to Travel with Skin Care

Passport? Check. Tickets? Check. Skin essentials? Almost, but not until you’ve mastered the art of traveling with your skin care. Whether you're headed for a weekend getaway or a long-haul trip, ensuring that your skin stays healthy should be a top priority. However, it can sometimes be a challenge to maintain your skin care routine while on the go.

Let's cover everything you need to know: the skin care essentials you need, how to travel with them, and some handy tips for keeping your skin glowing, even as you whiz off to exciting destinations.

Which Skin Care Products Should You Bring?

While you would obviously like to bring your entire skin care routine with you when you travel, it's often impractical. If you’re constrained by weight or size limits, here's a breakdown of the bare essential skin care items to bring with you:

  • Sunscreen: Daily UV protection is a non-negotiable. While you could purchase a new sunscreen when you travel, we won't blame you for wanting to bring OS-01 FACE SPF and OS-01 BODY SPF along with you. After all, they're 30+ SPF and packed with antioxidants, along with our OS-01 peptide, to combat sun damage and skin aging from multiple angles.[1]
  • Lip Balm: Your lips deserve protection, too. With our new OS-01 LIP SPF, you can protect your lips against sun damage while getting immediate and lasting hydration. Plus, because of its compact size, OS-01 LIP SPF is an ideal everyday carry.[1]
  • Hydrating Moisturizer: The foundation of any skin care routine, your moisturizer helps keep your skin hydrated—a factor that becomes increasingly important when traveling to a drier climate than your skin may be used to. Be careful of choosing a moisturizer that only provides temporary moisture. Instead, look for one like OS-01 FACE or OS-01 BODY that deeply hydrates while reinforcing your skin's natural barrier to help your skin retain its moisture. This is especially helpful when traveling, as you don't need to keep applying your limited supply every few hours as your skin dries out.[1]
  • Cleanser: Wherever you're going, your skin accumulates dirt, oils, and, if it's part of your routine, makeup. While most cleansers can clean out your pores, many also strip away the protective oils that make up your skin's barrier, leading to overdrying of your skin. That's why we recommend PREP, our gentle, gel-based enzyme cleanser that cleans and smooths the skin without disrupting the skin’s natural balance.[1]
  • Eye Cream: Coming home after a day of exploring requires a healthy dose of R&R. Because eye skin ages faster than the rest of the skin on your face, this skin deserves something to help it recover, too. The right eye cream, like OS-01 EYE, can combat puffiness, dark circles, and fine lines, ensuring the skin around your eyes looks refreshed and radiant.[1]
  • Hair Serum: Just because you're traveling doesn’t mean your hair goals have to take a vacation too. We designed both the 1-month and refill bottles of OS-01 HAIR to be travel size, meaning you never have to skip a day of your treatment. And, because OS-01 HAIR targets a root cause of age-related hair thinning, and not the symptoms, even if you miss a few days on accident while traveling, you won't lose your progress.[1]

Though this list is non-exhaustive, you may not be able to fit all of these products into your bag or suitcase. In that case, choose the most critical products for your skin's needs, prioritizing the everyday essentials you use most.

How Should You Store Your Products?

Proper storage of your skin care products is essential to prevent leaks and spills that could ruin your perfect routine. Here are some travel skin care tips for keeping your items secure:

  • Separate Liquids: Place all your liquid skincare items in a TSA-approved quart-size bag. This helps speed up TSA checks and contain leaks and spills, should they occur.
  • Pack in Layers: Place your skin care products in layers within your toiletry bag. Start with the heaviest or least fragile items at the bottom and work your way up to prevent breakage and spills.
  • Seal Containers Securely: Worried about leakage from your travel containers—try placing a small piece of plastic wrap over the openings before screwing on the caps. This means even if the top is popped open during transit, it won't leak.
  • Organize by Function: Group your skin care products by function, such as cleansing, moisturizing, and sun protection. If you need to touch up your skin care on the go, it makes it easier to locate.

TSA Guidelines

To ensure a smooth experience at airport security, adhere to TSA guidelines for carrying liquids, gels, and aerosols:

  • You are allowed to bring a quart-sized bag of liquids, aerosols, gels, cream, and pastes in your carry-on bag and through the checkpoint. These are limited to travel-sized containers that are 3.4 ounces (100 milliliters) or less per item.[2]
  • Ensure that items in containers larger than 3.4 ounces or 100 milliliters are packed in checked baggage, regardless of the amount within the containers.[2]

Jet-setting doesn’t mean compromising your glow with OneSkin’s travel kit containing travel-sized versions of: OS-01 FACE, OS-01 BODY, OS-01 EYE, and PREP, all in a chic silicone travel bag. All of our travel sizes are under the 3.4 ounce limit, plus, there’s room to stow additional OneSkin products or your other favorite TSA-approved essentials. Whether you need a carry-on-friendly way to reapply your products at 30,000 feet or just an easy way to store them on the go, the travel kit is great for those who never want their regimen to skip a beat.

Refillable Travel Size Containers

Looking to continue your skin care routine without bringing your entire shelf of products with you? Refillable travel containers are a great way to reduce the size of your routine, while also decreasing the chances of being stopped by TSA. Additionally, reusing them is better for the environment. Here's how to use them:

  • Choose TSA-Friendly Sets: Ensure bottles and jars are under the TSA’s 100 ml limit.
  • Fill with Your Products: Transfer your products to your new bottles. Use a funnel to avoid spilling.
  • Label Clearly: Mark each tube or jar so you grab the right formula when you need it. You don't want to mix up your moisturizer and your shampoo, after all.
  • Clean & Refill: After your trip, wash containers thoroughly and refill for next time.

Key Takeaways

  • Prioritize your must-have cleansers, moisturizers, and treatments so you can travel light without compromising results.
  • Store your products securely to minimize broken containers, spills, and leaks.
  • Follow TSA guidelines for carrying liquids in a quart-sized bag of travel-sized containers (3.4 ounces or 100 milliliters per item).
  • Explore OneSkin's Travel Kit for a simple and science-backed skin care routine on the go.

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Last Updated June 30, 2025