Travel toiletries: What I learned after 3 years of traveling carry-on only

[@TracyKMainwaring]

I use the hotel hairdryer to dry my soap bars before packing, and bring small ziploc snack bags if needed

[@KarenBees]

My hubby also dries the body scrubbie.

[@andreeachan6618]

Never thought of this, great idea! :O

[@MaggiFuchs]

That‘s awesome - I never thought of that either. Thanks for sharing! 🤗

[@edenrosederonsard]

Great idea!

[@krissy012p]

Oh that's a massively good tip!!

[@pdub6453]

Love the Matador soap pouch! Works great! Also, I use contact lens case for small amounts of face cream.

[@restorativetravels]

That's exactly what I started doing. Brilliant! 😊

[@dianastoevelaar9548]

Wow! ❤I love your minimalistic ideas. You’ve given me lots of great tips for my next trip. I didn’t know that you could get sheets for toiletries, but I’ve been using sheets for laundry for well over a year now and love them! Minimalism for the home is just as important as minimalism on the road. :-) Always good for the environment, too!❤😊

[@MaggiFuchs]

Since I have no more apartment, my „home“ is my travel bag, so I absolutely agree about the minimalism part. 😂 And having no room to put anything makes it so much easier… The shampoo leaves completely dissolve, but the face wipes don‘t. But I really enjoy cleaning my face with them when traveling. :)

[@MichaelMann-v3i]

I frequently do one night trips for business and find contact lens cases work well for bringing small quantities of liquids or prescription medicines. They never leak and pack easily.

[@matthewbrown6163]

Great Minds Think Alike - I bought a travel kit 20 years ago & used the screw top container for my toothpaste for these trips.

[@heatherhutton545]

Yay! Another Maggi video! I always get excited when a new one pops up. Excellent tips, as always. ❤

[@JosephineCheung-v6r]

I bought 10ml vacuum pump tubes from amazon for my face serums, and I use a contact lens case for creams :)

[@matthewbrown6163]

I often take 1 - 2 day business trips with 1 bag. My wheel aboard bag takes 2 spare business shirts & 3 spare ties. I have sports shorts & a polo shirt to wear in my hotel room with a pair of running shoes. I have used an expensive disposable razor in a glasses case that holds shave soap & a child's size toothbrush. I use screw top containers that are 5cm thick to carry my toothpaste. I bought a pocket atomiser that I have used for aftershave & also for mouth wash spray too.

[@sherryschumacher1881]

Great tips! I like to use contact lens cases to hold some of my toiletries. Filling one side of the case will usually give me enough product (whether it is primer, make up foundation, petroleum jelly, even toothpaste) to last up to two weeks. I also have an assortment of other small containers and bottles that I reuse depending on the trip.

[@MaggiFuchs]

I love the tip with the contact lens cases - thanks for sharing. :)

[@Vegancocoabean24]

I collect the toiletries from hotels from my travels if they don’t trigger my allergies. Some places have really nice items 😊

[@janh.4479]

Excellent recommendations Maggi!! You have traveling lighter a whole new meaning! My Matador soap pouch and the little bags are on there way to me. Thanks!!

[@alicerobinson7712]

I had one of the Osprey ones and Heathrow took it, refused it, and made me use the disposable qt. one. They were quite nasty about it.

[@MaggiFuchs]

Oh no! They never made me repack it. But at the end of the day, it always depends on the airport security staff… I had one once who insisted that I have to take out every single cable. I was prepared with my fluids and my electronics, but my cables were all over my bag… 😅 I almost missed my flight that day.

[@lizzy9975]

@@MaggiFuchs What an absolute idiot. I would have asked him to bring his manager over.

[@mariadillon860]

OMG😢 I have the Osprey bag also but have never tried it for international travel. I have bought an even bigger one on Amazon and can put twice as much into it - it is meant to be TSA friendly but now I doubt I would ever get it through at Heathrow 😮

[@lysruiz3953]

Great ideas to lighten the load! Thank you!

[@MaggiFuchs]

Glad it was helpful!

[@SaraNovau]

I love your little bag for a 2 day trip 😍😍😍 what a great idea 😍😍😍

[@spotlightinspect5540]

LUSH cosmetics carries a deodorant bar that is great. I cut off a small piece for travel. they carry 2 varieties and the white bar is antiperspirant. highly recommend.

[@MaggiFuchs]

Thanks for the recommendation! Those bars sound interesting. Do you know if the white bar stains the clothes? 🤔

[@paddlegal3097]

I bought the Oil of Olay dry face clothes. Thy are brillant. Really want to buy the soap bag because you always say it’s a favorite.

[@ohkay2090]

It works well!

[@MaggiFuchs]

Glad to hear you enjoy the face wipes too. :) The soap bag really works well for me. 😅

[@leza4453]

I am not a big fan of solids. I recommend to think about the amount you really need of something and then find a container for it. Like, nobody needs 100ml of shampoo for a short trip or 50ml of makeup remover. With the right reusable containers, you can just use the stuff you use at home. As a razor, I found that the Gilette men blades clip on the Venus travel handle and one of the blades fits perfectly into a 1pair Ohropax container, keeping it safe and dry.

[@viajanteminimalista2787]

Great tips. Thanks for sharing!

[@MaggiFuchs]

Thanks for watching. ;-)

[@Skypackstore]

☺Thank you so much, your tips are really helpful! Please continue to share

[@MaggiFuchs]

Glad you liked it! :)

[@LibbyWithnall]

I love my gotoobs - have been using them for years and just refill them with the products that I use at home. It is good that there are so many travel size products around now - especially if they can be refilled.

[@lynneeie5226]

Hello Maggi! Good to see you again 😊I almost emailed you to ask how you were 🤔but life has been busy here too & it felt a bit too much maybe.This summer I need to take empty suitcases home with me, older parents, cleaning out stored things.... and so I may borrow that hiking toiletry kit idea to take with me on the plane. Excellent & teeny tiny! Hope you and Everson are doing well, and hope you both have a lovely summer!! It is a hot one, so stay cool! All the best, Lynne

[@MaggiFuchs]

Hi Lynne! I was also about to send you an Email because I missed your comments on my videos. ;-) We are doing well - I hope you too? Unfortunately, this summer we will not make up north. We decided to take another housesit in Spain, so it‘s gonna be an even hotter summer for us. Have a great one!

[@lynneeie5226]

@@MaggiFuchs Aww sweet! Things have been a little up and down, nothing serious, just busy, spring planting, big garden renovation, worries re drought, calving season, but all is going well now. Rain! Hooray! And that is fine! If you come up north another time, that is fine, I think things will be more calm in another year or so, as we are fixing up the house a bit this year. We can stay in touch, loosely, on that. Enjoy Spain!!! Best to you both, Lynne

[@AnneMB955]

Have got my liquids way down this trip. ‘My’ shampoo, mascara, make-up remover, toothpaste all small. Rest needed will be at destination. Checking here to see if I’ve forgotten anything. Thx Maggi.

[@DallasNatureLover]

I bought toothpaste tablets on Amazon so I wouldn’t need toothpaste in my liquids bag. I take 4 tablets per day - I use 2 each time I brush. Also there are small laundry soap “papers” made specifically for sink washing so you won’t have trouble rinsking the soap out.

[@Ssssadnesss]

Love the travel vids. U have helpped this travel noob. I traveled w just a personal item backpack.

[@MaggiFuchs]

I‘m very proud of you! How did it go? :)

[@Ssssadnesss]

@@MaggiFuchs it went great. It help a lot when you said to just buy the products u need when u get there. N the compress cubes.

[@Lee_Proffit]

New subbie 🙂 Very impressive, you have cut my bathroom bag's weight in half - thank you ❤

[@DianK]

When you use your soap, do you take it out of the mesh soap bag or not? Great videos! I just subscribed to

[@MaggiFuchs]

Welcome! :) I usually leave the soaps inside, because then they foam very nicely and I just use the bag to scrub my body. But I notice that sometimes with some shampoo bars, it works better if I take them out and rub then on my hair directly. I hope that helps. :)

[@apoorvad8094]

completely off topic question How are your glasses so clean? or thats just the frame? thanks for such informative video

[@P0WSEETr]

Just the frame, she showed us in a video That's why there's no reflection

[@MaggiFuchs]

I saw you already solved the mystery… 😂

[@kessas.489]

I'm only traveling with solid products, no liquids anymore!

[@Gevedon]

That was great information! Thanks for sharing with us!

[@dcaldwell3175]

For over two years now, I use the ‘no poo’ method on my hair baking soda and water to wash, apple cider vinegar and water to condition. I can go 10-14 days without washing. I’ve just discovered that arrowroot powder makes a great dry shampoo for me. Leaving soon on a 10 day trip and taking only a tiny container of arrowroot (I’ll wash my hair just before we leave).

[@MaggiFuchs]

I find it so impressive when people can actually stick to the no poo method. I read a little bit about it a while ago, but I am not sure if it‘s for me. I read that there is a transition period that can be hard. But I love the simplicity of it. Maybe I need to read a little bit more about it… 🤗

[@dcaldwell3175]

@@MaggiFuchs it took me a couple of weeks to transition, but it is so worth it! I’ve just put some arrowroot powder into a contact lense case so my hair care is ready for our trip!

[@cs4849]

I’ve been washing my hair once or twice a month for years now. I don’t use any hair products so there’s nothing to wash out. My hair feels much healthier.

[@violaineaudrey8841]

Hello ! I washed my hair using the same method but my scalp was so dry and even sore I had to stop it... Is your scalp OK ? May you share the quantities you use for both baking soda and apple cider vinegar please ? Thank in advance 🌷

[@dcaldwell3175]

@@violaineaudrey8841 I don’t have a formal recipe. Approx 1/3 cup water for each solution. To one, I add 1/2-1 tsp baking soda; to the other I add approximately 1-1.5 tsp ACV. Hope that helps!

[@magixmagix]

I feel it's waste of effort and comfort trying use as much solid stuff as possible, when you still have some solids left and have to separate them on security check. For a couple of years I travel with similar zippered transparent 1L toiletry bag, put in my liquids, solids, toothbrush, comb and beard trimmer. And no one ever stopped me. So no need for plastic bags ever again. But I have started to put organic items (chocolates, cheese) on top of my bag. They always trigger the scanners.

[@samosa3926]

wieder was gelernt. Dass es Sonnenschutz auch in fester Form gibt, wusste ich noch nicht. Das Trockenöl ist in einer Plastikflasche, nicht in einer Glasflasche, korrekt?

[@MaggiFuchs]

Ja, genau, es ist in einer harten Plastikflasche. :)

[@lbunnygordon1133]

You are naturally flawless I need makeup owise look drained.

[@DallasNatureLover]

Which shampoo bars do you recommend? I have dry hair so I need a gentle one.

[@MaggiFuchs]

It’s so hard to give a recommendation because everyones hair is different. If I had to pick one, I really like the ones from Lush. My personal favorite is the Godiva because I loooove the smell.

[@DallasNatureLover]

@@MaggiFuchs Thank you!

[@lbunnygordon1133]

Anyone help. I have white roots nowadays want to dye my roots aling the way but never find any effective dye as hair should be golden brown..dont wabt to waste money on expensive hairdressers who get it wrong either..what can I do on longterm travels?

[@MaggiFuchs]

I’m afraid I’m not a big help… I dyed my hair dark for decades, but when I started traveling and inevitably had way to many hairdresser appointments gone wrong, I just decided to bite the bullet and returned to my natural hair color and just live with the gray hair… But it‘s hard! I miss my darker hair, but I know it‘s just not worth the hassle… 😂