Saturday, August 16, 2014

Travel: Packing your Toiletries

Preparing toiletries is one of my favorites when packing for my trip. I enjoy putting up all my essentials in small containers knowing that I can bring everything I need packed in small bottles.


Among all the things that one must pack, toiletries are also very important on the hygienic side. Well you can always buy your toiletries once you arrive to your destination or just use the complimentary ones from your hotel. For backpackers like me, I always think that it is cost saving and is very convenient if I bring my own toiletries with me during my travel. I find it very useful on emergencies, an overnight stay and even during car trouble and you need to temporarily stay on your friends house.

So let me share my perfect set of toiletries when I'm out on travel. I usually travel light and these kit works well for me. I have 3 compact sets that I'll be describing later on. These are what I usually bring with me when I travel. I've tried a lot of travel kits before but these ones are my favorite.

To start, the main toiletry pouch is this purple toiletry kit that I got from SM a few years back. It has a detachable pouch were I put all of the remaining stuff that won't fit on the main pouch. One thing I liked about this is that it fits easily on my luggage and won't take much space. It's space efficient and very compact and convenient to bring.
 

Here's how it looks when I have all the bottles in place.


As for the small containers, I made use of my Human Nature (HN) sample size bottles to fill my bathroom essentials.  You can always use any other bottles but what I like about the HN bottles is that I don't need to label them anymore and they are of the same height and size so they fit perfectly inside the kit.

This one contains my Dove Body Wash.


I use these two bottles from HN and refill them with my favorite shampoo and conditioner everytime I travel.
 

This is the small version of my facial wash from HN.


This as well is a smaller version of my HN feminine wash in Powder Coral.

I'm reusing this lotion bottle (still from HN) and refill them with my favorite lotion.


This is a smaller version of the Sunflower oil. And what I did was I bought a small pump bottle and remove the sticker from my old Sunflower oil bottle and stick it on the small one.


My mom-in-law gave me this sample bottle which I refilled with the same Cetaphil cleanser after using all the contents.


My deo spray from One Earth Organics is on this small spray bottle.


I placed the cotton pads and cotton buds on these small boxes I got from Gaisano.


Here's what's inside the detachable pouch - nail cutter, dental floss, small toothpaste and a lens compact kit.


I got this kit from Japan Home a few years back. I refill the lens container with my day and night face moisturizer and labeled them on the bottom as D and N respectively. For the solution bottle, I filled it with my face toner.


Now on to the 3rd pouch - the brown polka dotty pouch. This one contains all my make-up. I don't really wear a lot of makeup when travelling - just the basic ones will do.

- Clinique Parfum on the gray atomizer
- Clinique Lipstick
- Clinique CC cream
- Clinique Eyeshadow
- Clinique Mascara
- VS Eyeliner
- VS Lipliner
- Etude Eyebrow Brush
- VS Cologne
- Everbilena Eyelash Curler
- Tweasers

All these in one tiny pouch. Isn't it amazing?


So that's it for my Toiletry Essentials. I hope somehow this blog post have given you an idea on how to pack your toiletries efficiently.

Until my next post. Ciao!

Xoxo,
Lheyvens <3