5 Skincare Items You Need In Your Suitcase This Summer!

5 Beauty Products You Need in Your Suitcase This Summer

20KG weight limit for our suitcase is just the absolute bain of our lives isn’t it? How can I fit my 32 beauty products in as well as all 14 day and night outfits and 6 pairs of shoes?

Here are the top 5 products that will keep your skin clear, moisturised and glowing throughout your holiday, all the way home.

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1. La Roche – Posay Anti Shine SPF 50

We invest so much into the products we put onto our skin morning and night, but for some reason get into the habit of just slathering on any old suncream onto our face.

It’s time to break that cycle – and you will really notice the difference.

This La Roche-Posay Anti Shine 50 SPF is designed for oily skin, to avoid those breakouts. And that is exactly what it does!

You spritz it onto your face and it doesn’t feel like suncream at all – more like fresh scented water. You don’t need to rub it in, just spray and go.

It protects your skin like no other – I used this every morning on my recent holiday to Greece and my skin wasn’t red for the whole trip. Not one slither of sunburn. (I can’t say the same for the rest of my body – who thought 30SPF oil was a good idea?)

I didn’t get a single breakout while I was away, even on my return to the UK – nada.

Clear skin. Moisturised skin. Glowing skin.

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2. Clinique Clarifying 4 Toner

While sunbathing all day, dipping in and out the pool and soaking up the rays, your skin is now covered in sweat, SPF, chlorine and god know what else.

Now more then ever, you need something that’s going to clean out your skin.

This is my favourite ever toner. My skin is squeaky clean after and not a break out in sight.

It is filled with skin loving stuff to sweep away dead skin cells to leave a clearer complexion behind. It is also so cool and refreshing on your skin – perfect for those hot and sweaty nights.

The Clinique range have 4 different toners depending on your skin type – I use 4 as this is for oily, breakout prone skin.

Clarifying Lotion 1 – for dry to very dry skin.

Clarifying Lotion 2 – for dry to combination skin.

Clarifying Lotion 3 – combination to oily skin.

Clarifying Lotion 4 – Oily AF skin.

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3. Elemis Superfood Facial Oil

Pretty much everything we do on holiday dries our skin out.

The pool, the sea water, the alcohol, the sun – let’s be honest, our skin definitely isn’t on holiday when we are.

This little bottle of goodness will give your skin an intense overnight treatment, that feeds your skin with the essential superfoods while you sleep, leaving your skin revitalised and way brighter in the morning, ready for another day of instagram snaps.

And trust me it really does. It smells absolutely gorgeous, and feels like your giving yourself a mini facial as you massage this oil into your skin in the evening.

I only use this in the evening – this would be way too heavy to apply in the morning as well. Get your lightweight moisturiser for your mornings (click here to read what I use).

100% vegan. 100% natural ingredients. 100% just absolutely everything.

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4. Self Tanning Drops

If you’re anything like me and reached the age where you’d rather not get your face in the sun (urm, hello, wrinkles?), then these facial tanning drops will solve all of your problems.

Ok slight exaggeration, but they will give you that tanned complexion every single day of your holiday.

I mix two of these tanning drops with the Elemis facial Oil above and rub into my skin.

I genuinely wake up with glowing skin.

Tip – make sure you wash your hands after. Who would of thought 2 little drops would stain your hands for 4 day? Yes. Yes it does.

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5. Brazilian Bum Bum Cream

Now we have our face lovely and moisturised, lets not forget about the rest of our body.

I originally bought this Bum Bum cream for what is says on the tin – to smooth my bum. Which it does. Well, like, a tiny bit.

But it is also THE BEST BODY MOISTURISER EVER.

It smells absolutely divine. Like you’ve just walked into a field of oranges.

It makes your skin so soft.

And the best thing about it? It absorbs super quickly. Within seconds you can put clothes on and it’s like you’ve never applied moisturiser in the first place.

No squelching around feeling all greased up.

Except you now have skin like silk.

I literally apply it everywhere – from head to toe, well neck to toe, every night when I’m out the shower.

And I feel like an absolute goddess.

Life. Made.