7 Travel-Sized Black Beauty Products for Your Carry-on
For Black folks, it can prove challenging enough to find products for our skin tones, types and textures, let alone in travel sizes. Here, seven tried-and-true travel beauty products for the gorgeously melanated.
This Carry On Starter Box is specifically designed to be TSA-friendly down to the ounce, so you can keep it with you in your luggage. With lip, hair, and body balms boasting hydrating ingredients like coconut oil plus shea and mango butters, you’re bound to fend off dryness for the duration of your flight.
2. Fenty Skin Travel Size Start’r Kit
Fenty’s high quality products come in miniature sizes, too. RiRi’s travel kit contains a gentle but effective cleanser, toner serum to even out your skin tone, and SPF hydrating moisturizer that won’t leave a white cast on your skin like other sunscreen products. Packed with vitamin C, Australian lemon myrtle, and niacinamide, these little bottles are stacked with skin nutrition to lessen the appearance of spots and fine lines while shrinking pores—all while on the go. Also available at Sephora and Amazon.
Keeping your crown in order while in transit can be a daunting task. Luckily, Briogeo’s got your back with 2-ounce Hair Care Minis that detoxify, lift, smooth, and repair hair on the run. Vitamins and natural oils are listed among the ingredients to these vegan and cruelty-free products, so you can feel good about maintaining your tresses without making sacrifices for the sake of being on the go.
Target’s curated beauty boxes have had a major glow-up with this edition featuring Black-owned/Black-founded products. From SheaMoisture African Black Soap Face & Body Bar to Thank God It’s Natural Butter Cream Daily Moisturizer, you can trust in knowing that these products are made by the Black community, for the Black community. While these sample items are sized best for short trips, the only non-travel sized item is Bevel’s All Day Moisture Body Lotion in a 16-ounce bottle—but there’s always room for it at home.
5. Bolden Daily Skin Basics Kit
For quality skin care for Black and brown skin at an affordable price, Bolden’s 3-piece kit delivers the goods. A travel-sized gentle cleanser, exfoliating toner, and SPF 30 moisturizer come in this kit formulated with antioxidants like vitamin C to prevent breakouts and aid in brightening dark spots and hyperpigmentation. Best of all, it’s available at Walmart for just over $20.
6. Mielle Rosemary Mint Edge Gel
The quest for the perfect edge control product is neverending. For edge gel on the go, look no further than Mielle’s Rosemary Mint Edge Gel. It offers seriously shiny hydration and supports hair growth with biotin, coconut, rosemary, and babassu seed oil in a conveniently compact 2-ounce container perfect for your carry-on bag. Best of all, it won’t flake on you, and the rosemary mint scent is divine.
7. Scotch Porter Conditioning Beard Balm
Why neglect your beard’s hydration and shine while traveling? Black-founded Scotch Porter offers this beard balm for dry or coarse beards, perfectly packaged in a stylish 3-ounce container. Infused with biotin and pleasantly lacking in sulfates, parabens, and phthalates, the formula will keep your beard hydrated and smelling irresistible from takeoff to landing.
This story was originally published March 7, 2023 at 1:13 PM with the headline "7 Travel-Sized Black Beauty Products for Your Carry-on."