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Travel Essentials: What Your Skin Needs on the Plane

  • Aug 21
  • 6 min read
Airplane skincare essentials featuring Eminence Organic Skin Care products for hydrated skin while traveling

Between packing, getting to the airport and making it through security, your skin probably isn’t the first thing on your travel checklist. But if you’ve ever stepped off a flight feeling dry, tight, puffy or just a little less refreshed than when you boarded, you know that flying can take a toll on your complexion.


Airplane cabins have very low humidity, which means your skin is spending hours in an environment much drier than what it’s used to. Add recycled air, disrupted sleep, travel stress and a change in routine, and your skin may arrive at your destination feeling dehydrated and looking dull.


The good news? You don’t need to bring your entire bathroom cabinet in your carry-on. A few thoughtfully chosen essentials can help keep your skin comfortable, hydrated and protected from takeoff to touchdown.


Here’s what we recommend packing for your next flight.


1. Start With Hydrated Skin Before You Board

One of the best things you can do for your skin on a travel day actually happens before you get on the plane. Instead of waiting until your skin feels dry mid-flight, focus on hydration before leaving for the airport. Cleanse your skin and follow with hydrating products that help replenish moisture.


Eminence Organics Strawberry Rhubarb Hyaluronic Serum is a great pre-flight option. The formula features a Botanical Hyaluronic Acid Complex to replenish hydration and help the skin appear smoother and more plump.

Follow your serum with a moisturizer suited to your skin type. Starting your flight with properly moisturized skin gives your complexion a much better foundation for the dry hours ahead.


Pretty Please Tip: If you’re taking a long-haul flight, consider doing a hydrating masque the night before or the morning of your trip rather than trying to turn seat 24A into a treatment room.


2. Keep a Facial Mist Within Reach

If we had to choose one skincare product to keep in the seat-back pocket, it would be a hydrating mist.


Eminence Organics Stone Crop Hydrating Mist is especially convenient for travel because it refreshes, tones and hydrates the skin without requiring a trip to the airplane bathroom.

Stone crop is known for its hydrating and soothing properties, making this mist an easy way to refresh skin that starts to feel uncomfortable during a long flight.


A light spritz throughout your journey can also feel incredibly refreshing when you’ve been sitting in the same cabin for several hours.


Just remember: a mist is a refresh, not a replacement for moisturizer. If your skin is particularly dry, you still want nourishing skincare underneath.


3. Pack a Hyaluronic Acid Hydrator

When your environment is dry, hydration becomes the priority.


Eminence Organics Strawberry Rhubarb Hyaluronic Hydrator is a lightweight option designed to deeply replenish the skin. Its Botanical Hyaluronic Acid Complex helps hydrate and visibly plump the complexion, while panthenol, strawberry and rhubarb support a fresh, radiant appearance.


Its lightweight texture also makes it particularly nice for traveling when you want hydration without feeling like you have a heavy layer of product sitting on your face.


For longer flights, apply before boarding and reapply if your skin begins to feel especially dry or tight.

4. Don't Forget Your Eye Area

Late departures, early arrivals and questionable amounts of airport coffee have a way of showing up around the eyes.


The skin surrounding the eyes is delicate, so adding an eye product to your travel routine can help keep the area feeling moisturized and looking refreshed.


Eminence Organics Neroli Age Corrective Eye Serum is a travel-friendly option that can easily be incorporated into your pre- or post-flight routine. Apply a small amount around the eye area using gentle tapping motions rather than rubbing or pulling at the skin.

And as tempting as it is to spend the entire flight staring at the seat-back screen, closing your eyes and getting some actual rest might be the best beauty treatment in your carry-on.


5. Bring Facial Recovery Oil for Extra-Dry Skin

If you know your skin becomes extremely dry when you travel, consider adding a facial oil.

Eminence Organics Facial Recovery Oil is a deeply nourishing facial oil that Eminence specifically recommends as part of a pre-flight skincare routine.


A few drops can be pressed gently into the skin after your other hydrating products to add an extra layer of nourishment. You don't need much — especially when you're traveling.


This can be particularly helpful for dry or mature skin types, or anyone heading from one climate to a dramatically different one.


6. Keep Your Hands Off Your Face

This travel essential doesn't take up any room in your liquids bag: resist the urge to touch your face.

Think about everything your hands come into contact with during a travel day — luggage handles, security bins, elevator buttons, check-in screens, armrests and countless other high-touch surfaces. Wash your hands regularly and keep hand sanitizer accessible when soap and water aren't available.


More importantly, be mindful of absentmindedly resting your face in your hands, rubbing your eyes or picking at your skin during the flight. Your skincare products can do their job much better when you're not constantly touching your face.


7. Skip the Complicated In-Flight Facial

Social media might make an elaborate airplane skincare routine look luxurious, but your flight isn't necessarily the time for aggressive exfoliation, multiple active ingredients or a 10-step facial.


Travel can already be a change for your skin. Keeping things simple helps reduce the chance of irritation.


Focus on what your skin actually needs most during the flight: gentle care and hydration.

Save the exfoliation and more involved treatments for your destination — preferably after your skin has had a chance to settle.


8. Pack Travel Sizes Whenever Possible

There's nothing worse than realizing your favorite product can't make it through security.

For carry-on luggage, liquids generally need to meet TSA size requirements, so travel-size skincare makes packing significantly easier.


Eminence Organics offers travel-friendly sets, including the Must Have Minis Starter Set, which includes miniature versions of several bestselling products. A travel set can also prevent you from having to transfer your favorite formulas into random containers and makes it easier to maintain a consistent routine while you're away.


Keeping your routine consistent is especially helpful when you're already introducing your skin to different weather, water, sleep schedules and environments.


9. Hydrate From the Inside, Too


Your skincare routine is only part of the equation.

Bring a reusable water bottle and fill it once you're through security. Sip water throughout your flight instead of waiting until you're thirsty.


And no, the tiny cup of water the flight attendant hands you once every few hours probably isn't going to cut it.


You don't need to obsess over drinking enormous amounts of water, but staying normally hydrated throughout your travel day can help you feel significantly better when you land.


10. Don't Forget SPF — Especially in the Window Seat


Yes, sunscreen belongs in your travel bag too.

UVA rays can penetrate windows, and at cruising altitude you're spending hours above much of the atmosphere that normally separates you from the sun. If you're sitting next to the window, keeping sun protection in mind is especially important.


Apply your SPF as part of your morning skincare routine and keep it accessible if you'll need to reapply during a long travel day.


And once you arrive? Keep using it. Whether you're heading somewhere tropical, snowy, cloudy or somewhere in between, sun protection shouldn't take a vacation just because you are.

Your Carry-On Skin Checklist

Keep it simple. For most flights, your skincare essentials can be narrowed down to:


The goal isn't to bring every product you own. It's to bring the right ones.


Give Your Skin a Pre- or Post-Travel Reset at Pretty Please

Travel is exciting. Travel skin? Sometimes not so much.


If you're preparing for a big trip, schedule your facial ahead of time so we can help get your skin hydrated, balanced and glowing before you leave. And if you come home feeling dry, congested or dull after flights, climate changes and a week away from your normal routine, a post-travel facial can help get your skin back on track.


At Pretty Please Skincare, we use Eminence Organic Skin Care and customize every treatment based on what your skin needs — because your vacation should come home with you in your camera roll, not in the form of dehydrated skin.

Safe travels — and don't forget your SPF. Wanna Glow Too?

 
 
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