How to Protect Your Skin While Traveling

Understand What Travel Does to Your Skin

The dry, recycled air in airplanes can strip moisture from your skin fast—often leaving it parched, tight, or sometimes even extra oily as it tries to over-compensate by producing more oil. Throw in a time zone change or sleep disruption and your skin’s barrier can become even more vulnerable to irritation and breakouts.

Environmental changes(such as a change in humidity levels or air quality) can also throw your skin off. If you’re heading somewhere hotter, you might see an uptick in oiliness and clogged pores—while heading to colder or drier can leave your skin more sensitive, and dry. Either way, travel puts your skin into stress mode, so our main goal is to support and stabilize.

Keep It Simple—but Consistent

Travel isn’t the time to try something new or skip your routine altogether. The best way to avoid flare-ups or setbacks is to stay consistent with the basics your skin already knows and loves. That means: cleanse, hydrate, treat, and protect.

Look for mini versions of your core products so you’re not relying on hotel toiletries or piecing together random backups. Our travel-sized products are designed to help you stay consistent—without taking up valuable suitcase space.

Don’t Skip Your Active Ingredients

It can be tempting to pare down too much while traveling, but your skin still needs daily support. A stable vitamin C is one of the best ways to protect your skin against UV damage and pollution—especially when you’re out and about in a new environment. Our Travel-size Vitamin C 20% Serum delivers powerful antioxidant protection while helping to brighten and even skin tone.

At night, follow up with Travel Tonic—our cult-favorite toner that gently resurfaces, decongests, and smooths. It’s like bringing your favorite facial with you, minus the appointment.

Stay Sun Safe (Even While in Transit)

Travel usually means more time in the sun—even if it’s just through the plane window. Make sure to apply (and reapply) sunscreen daily. Look for TSA-approved sizes and consider a brush-on SPF, like Perfection Protection, for easy, no-mess reapplication during your trip.