Travel-Friendly Liquid Water Enhancers

There’s a new product on the market that lets you flavor a glass (or bottle) of water. Called Mio (“mee-yo”), what makes them different from products like Kool-Aid or Crystal Light mix is that Mio already comes in liquid form. The bottles contain a little over 1.5 fluid ounces, and yield roughly two dozen “servings” …

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Quick Tip: How to Keep the Travel Toiletries Flowing

Do you pack your 3-1-1 toiletry kit with small bottles of shampoo and conditioner, only to find that you can only realistically use half the bottles, because the last half decides to cling to the bottom of the bottle? This happens pretty often, especially with really thick gels or hair conditioner. Here’s a handy tip: …

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Pack Lightly With Burt’s Bees

One of my cardinal rules for packing light is to decant your liquids into smaller containers. After all (especially if it involves traveling within, in, and out of the U.S.), the Transportation Security Administration still has its 3-1-1 rule—3 fluid ounces per bottle in a a 1-liter transparent resealable bag per 1 traveler—which means that …

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Traveling with your cosmetics

Cosmetics consumer advocate Paula Begoun (who has authored a number of books on practical cosmetic tips and sells her own line of skin care and cosmetics), recently discussed the topic of how to pack your cosmetics for travel in her syndicated radio show. You can listen to an archive of her show here. Paula explained …

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How to get through airport security smoothly

Maybe you do most of your travels by car, or you’ve just never had the chance to fly before. As much as I’ve flown, I still get little baby butterflies (hmm… caterpillars?) in my stomach right as we take off. I know it’s all physics and engineering, and that it’s safer to fly than it …

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Travel laundry soap recommendation: Charlie’s Soap

One of the inevitable activities you wind up participating in when you pack lightly is washing your clothes (if nothing else, your underwear). Oh sure, you can use the hotel bar soap and wash your undergarments by hand in the bathroom sink, but what do you do when you actually want to wash most of …

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Product review: Baggallini Teenee wallet purse

One thing about women: our clothes don’t always come with pockets. Or if they do, they’re small and more for aesthetic purposes. Unless you wear cargo pants with huge pockets, chances are, you carry a purse in order to keep your wallet, phone, and other items near you. But what if you don’t want to …

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Bath and Body Works toiletries and Moleskine Volants

I went on a weekend getaway to Pismo Beach—perfect little spot. In addition to an afternoon on a walking tour of Hearst Castle, one of the things I did was visit San Luis Obispo’s downtown area, with its little coffee shops and retail stores geared towards the college students from nearby Cal Poly SLO. One …

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