ROSIE GREEN: 10 travel-size beauty products I always pack for my holiday By Rosie Green For You Magazine Published: 12:00, 29 June 2024 | Updated: 12:00, 29 June 2024 e-mail View comments Think of Gollum with his ‘precious’ ring and you get some idea of my obsession with travel-size products. Why do I love them? They mix palpitation-inducing cuteness with practicality (and affordability). Before them, I lose all rational thought and am consumed with want.
It’s the same with hotel toiletries. Reader, I clink as I check out. If the above equals joy, then the opposite is having a favourite product confiscated at the airport for being over the liquid limit.
I’m still processing the loss of a nearly full bottle of Chanel No 19 in 2007. Ditto a Sisley-Paris Radiance Foaming Cream a year later (it is, FYI, the ne plus ultra of cleansers, leaving skin softer than a kitten’s belly). But I digress.
This summer, UK airports are supposed to introduce scanners that would mean we could carry on a much higher liquid allowance, but as the rollout has been a bit of a shambles it’s still wise to go mini. So, what travel pieces do I take? Well, a small Garnier Micellar Cleansing Water (6, £3.15 for 100ml, boots.
com ) is a must. I also carry a few diminutive Aromatherapy Associates Bath & Shower Oils (4, £12 for 9ml, aromatherapyassociates.com ) to dab on pulse points should turbulence strike on the flight and to pour into the bath once there.
To stretch time between styling, a dry.
