Travel-Ready Beauty from Tammy Fender, Kaia, Yarok and Soak
Fabulous, effective eco-skincare is hard enough to find. Fabulous, effective, travel-ready eco-skincare? Downright impossible. Rather than trying to squeeze your favorite products into travel-size bottles and jars or relying on iffy hotel amenities during your next trip, pick up one of these travel-ready wonders that make packing easier than online-booking a nonrefundable flight to Sardinia after downing a bottle of Chianti.
Skip the months-long waiting list for West-Palm-Beach-based celebrity esthetician Tammy Fender and instead treat yourself to her signature Tammy Fender Travel Kit. Customize your kit with your choice of organic cleanser, toner, moisturizer, and body oil or lotion (we’re mad for the Rose, Geranium and Tangerine scent combo). The travel collection also includes Tammy’s anti-aging Quintessential Serum and famous Epi-Peel, all packaged in a safe-for-suitcases jewel-box kit.
Like most disposable paper products, disposable facial cleansing cloths have always been a temptingly convenient, big, fat, eco-no-no—until now. Kaia’s 100-percet-biodegradable Bamboo Facial Cleansing Cloths are a brilliant, quick-cleansing solution infused with citrus essential oils, organic honey, sunflower seed oil, oat amino acids and fatty alcohol that won’t dry skin. We only needed one cashmere-soft cloth to remove all traces of makeup and grime, even without a rinse. Plus, the recyclable container snaps shut to keep cloths moist, portable and ready for use in flight.
Changes in water, air quality and climate while traveling often leave us with hair days so bad we’re tempted to delete the vacation snaps. But Yarok’s travel-sized Green with Envy Shampoo and Conditioner make shiny, happy hair perfectly portable. Formulated with restorative organic and wildcrafted ingredients and without chemical preservatives or synthetic fragrances, this dynamic duo left our hair smelling crazy-good and looking pampered enough to preserve a whole trip’s worth of frame-worthy photos.
No, it’s not technically beauty, but who wants to travel with unwashed unmentionables? The savvy travelers we know stow disposable packets of eco-detergent in their carry-ons. Free of perfumes and dyes, completely biodegradeable and phosphate-free, Soak Minis let you hand-wash everything from lingerie to cashmere to that teeny-weeny bikini you’re packing for warmer climes.
Bon voyage, baby!
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—Spirit Demerson
Spirit Demerson is the President and Founder of Spirit Beauty Lounge, an online boutique specializing in luxury organic beauty and eco-lifestyle products. A recovering product junkie, eco-activist, former model and beauty school dropout turned “eco-preneur,” Spirit has spent over a decade searching for effective organic beauty products. Frustrated by the less-than-luxurious selection available at natural foods markets and misleading labels at department stores and drugstores, she sharpened her expertise, spending hours obsessively researching ingredients, often mixing up batches of lotions and potions in her kitchen or importing products and ingredients from around the world to treat the skin conditions of friends and family. In 2007, Spirit began hosting and producing elite Organic Spa Parties in New York City and San Francisco with organic facials, pedicures and cocktails to promote the green and glamorous life. Her Spirit Beauty Lounge webstore was developed of bringing the Organic Spa Party home! Spirit and/or Spirit Beauty Lounge have recently been featured in Natural Solutions, 944, Boho, Family Circle, Vegetarian Times and Lucky magazines.
