These trash cans of toilet articles in travel size in the drugstore can be tempting. It seems like making packaging more comfortable and lightening your load, right? But think again. Would you really like to spend money on miniature versions of toilet articles that you already own? And do you feel okay when you throw away all of these plastic and packaging when you're done? Travel expert Jess Field from @travelmomsquad not. Here she informs how you can be smarter and more efficient in the procurement and packaging of your toilet items for a trip.
1. Use your home care
Invest in a number of reusable bottles in travel size and fill them from the toilet articles that you use at home. “It saves plastic because you don't buy a small shampoo and a small conditioner and throw away as soon as you're done,” says Field.
Whatever you have to bring with you, there is probably a container for it. You can get lid bottles, squeakable tubes, spray bottles or sets with several styles. Most are dimensioned to keep 3 ounces or less so that they can carry them on an airplane. They are ideal for shampoo, conditioner, body washing, lotion, eye -to -up -Up remover, nail polish remover and other important use of use. (A small funnel can be helpful for filling bottles.) There are even small canisters with gymnastics-off covers to transport just one swab of this expensive moisturizer or eye cream.
2. Be strategically about the purchase of minis
While the field does not provide for you to reproduce your entire toilet routine from the travel, it agrees that some things make sense to buy in travel sizes. For example, you probably don't want to drag your huge aerosol hair spray socket on a trip. In this case, buy a travel size or switch to a hairspray in a pump and then decant the amount you need in a spray bottle in travel size.
In addition, on a trip you will probably not go through a tube in full size toothpaste, so it makes sense to procure a mini. Field's Hack: Save the tiny tubes that you receive when you visit a dentist to use them for the trip.
Sunscreen is another article that makes sense in miniatures. Field says it is difficult for them to find sunscreen in 3 ounces or less, so it supports their favorite brand both in a large tube for at home and for a 2.4 -unzen tube for the trip.
3. Be less picky
Use the toilet items delivered by your hotel. Usually you will find shampoo, conditioner, hand soap, body washing and lotion on you. You may not be the same as what you use at home, but you will probably work well. “Body laundering and soap are things that I never bring,” says Field. “I just use everything in the hotel.” If you simply cannot be without your favorites for the length of your trip, bring them (of course in reusable containers of the travel size). But if you can get by with the basics that your hotel has in store, you save a little money and the effort to bring your own.
4. Buy it there
Field says that the biggest package problem with which humans have to fight is more than needed than they need, and this applies to both toilet articles as well as clothing and shoes. “People think they have to pack up for every possible situation,” she says. “I'm a recovery overpacker, so I totally understand it.” For toilet articles and clothing, she suggests that you only bring things with you that you know from using every day and leave the just-in-case stuff at home. If an urgent need arises, remember that you can very likely buy what you need at your goal.