New Beauty Products for a Total Spring Glow-up
Now is the time to reconsider what you put on your face and body, and we have sourced some luxurious travel-inspired products for you to use on the road or at home.
The beginning of Spring is a time to rejoice! Not just in the hopes of seeing blossoms and welcoming better weather, but with the intention of blooming yourself and greeting a new and improved you. Beauty experts all agree that there are certain simple steps you need to take to refresh your appearance at this time of year. A first step is to assess your current beauty products and give them a Spring cleaning. Give the heave-ho to anything that might not be serving you, your community, or the planet. And start to think about slowing down and simplifying your routine, depending on your needs. Not everything is about anti-aging. Beauty these days is less of an industry and more of a practice and an opportunity for you to center mindfulness, wellness and self-care. At Vacationer, we like to support sustainable, minority, female, LGBTQ+, BIPOC and ally founders who work within new paradigms of sustainability and slow beauty.
Here are our top picks of products we tried and tested for our Spring renewal, all in convenient travel sizes. Check back for updates as we are always testing and sharing alternative travel beauty hacks.
Featured: Paradiso Skin
Are you looking for a gentle, vegan miracle serum? Something clean, conscious, botanical, and completely natural-feeling? Get ready to experience simplified skincare like never before with Paradiso Skin—a botanical revolution in beauty. This product hails from sunny California, in seaside Santa Barbara, to be exact, where the small-batch serum is made with the finest naturally derived ingredients, carefully selected to nourish, protect, and revitalize your skin in one compact and easy-to-use product.
Female founder Madelyn Valenzuela has a medical background in cardiology and a passion for wellness. Paradiso Skin is her vision for a paradise-inspired, non-toxic skincare solution that is free from harmful chemicals, synthetic fragrances, colorants, and hormone disruptors found in so many big commercial brands. Instead of chemicals, you will find natural miracle ingredients such as hemp, hibiscus flower, squalene, and bakuchiol. They are calming and deeply hydrating.
Our product pick is the organic-certified Renew Ritual Botanical Retinol Serum. It is the perfect face moisturizing serum for travel and in keeping with our quest for mindful travel and slow beauty even while on the road or in the air. Inspired by the wisdom and bounty of nature and the relaxing allure of a tropical paradise, plant-inspired Paradiso Skin believes beauty should be clean, conscious, and effortlessly radiant. Retinol does not have to be harsh on the skin. This gentle, milky, mauve multi-correctional serum delivers all the anti-aging benefits with none of the irritation, so it’s perfect for sensitive skin. Watch moisture appear, lines soften, texture smooth out, and your natural glow emerge, even from the first use after stepping out of the shower or off a long flight.
Stacy Lash Serum
One of our priorities for our Spring beauty regimen is to start using a quality lash and brow serum to lengthen and strengthen lashes and eyebrows so we don’t have to worry about packing so many cosmetic products when we travel during the warmer months. Not only does this mean you can leave your mascara, eyeliner, and eye makeup remover at home and save just that little bit of extra space—but you can sweat and swim and play sports a la naturel without worrying about your eye makeup running.
This season, we’re road-testing Stacy Lash Growth Serum (0.17fl.oz / 5ml). The packaging for this Eyebrow & Eyelash Enhancing Serum for Natural Lashes & Brows is glamorous and gift-worthy, and so far it is working for us! Just apply before bedtime and let it work its magic overnight. Allow 2-3 weeks to start seeing results.
KAHI
KAHI is a new skin care brand from Korea that was introduced in 2020. If you’re not familiar with the latest K-beauty trend (why do Koreans have such ‘perfect’ skin?) tap into this range of affordable and bestselling products. What a joy it was to discover this product! KAHI Wrinkle Bounce Multi Balm will save you space when you pack because it does triple or multi-duty as a lip balm, eye wrinkle, lip wrinkle, moisturizer, and fine line reducer anywhere on the face, neck, or decolletage. Pleasantly fragranced and perfect for travel because it comes in solid form and slips into any pocket in your handbag or carry-on luggage.
This skin balm moisturizes and lifts frown lines, eye wrinkles, nasolabial folds, smoker’s lines, crepey neck, and any places where dehydration and oxidative stress show. It provides long-lasting hydration for up to 48 hours, leaving your skin fresh and glowingall day—the secret ingredient is Jeju fermented oil.
There is a whole line of useful KAHI beauty products created in Seoul and its legendary Jeju Island (known as the Hawaii of Korea), from mists, to masks, to multipurpose balms, perfect for pre- and post-trip rejuvenation, a spa day at home, or a thoughtful and unique travel-inspired gift.
Maskād
The Maskād® Routine is a convenient gift set (brought to you by the clever folks at Revivv) and contains everything you need to do achieve hydrated, beautiful, and youthful skin easily in as little as 20-30 minutes, a couple of nights per week. Featuring 2 oz Hydrating Serum, 2 oz Anti-Aging Serum, Derma Roller, and 2 Hydrogel Infusion Face Masks, together, they work to minimize the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, reduce imperfections, hydrate skin, and leave you with a bright and smooth finish.
Suitable for people of all ages, genders, and skin types these products use only clean ingredients that are designed to deliver results. Whether you’re looking for a solution to hydrate dry skin or reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, the products are the results of technical formulas that are backed by science and designed to deliver noticeable results.
Minority-owned, female founder, vegan the Maskād Routine takes up very little room in your luggage and is perfect to pull out in the hotel room and have a mini spa experience. Treat yourself or someone else. Remember, Mother’s Day is just around the corner.
Regenix
Regenix is a pioneering brand rooted in science, dedicated to addressing hair and scalp issues with innovative, plant-based bio-pharmaceutical solutions. If you’re someone who has colored your hair a lot, or changed your assigned gender, you may have noticed a difference in your hair quality over time. Whatever your gender, age, and the desired results, there are some lab-proven little helpers for you. Founded 35 years ago in a Beverly Hills clinic, Regenix has helped more than 500,000 men and women achieve healthier hair and scalps. The brand’s heritage is built on decades of research and data, leveraging the latest scientific breakthroughs to develop customized treatments. By combining Hair Microanalysis with naturally derived ingredients, Regenix creates tailored formulas from hundreds of potential combinations.
At the core of Regenix’s mission is a commitment to science, safety, and sustainability, which is what we like at Vacationer’s beauty and style section. The brand’s three-step program begins with nourishing the scalp using the Starter Kit, followed by personalized treatments formulated to target individual problem areas and trigger hair growth, and concludes with a maintenance plan to sustain results. Regenix products are free of harsh chemicals, including SLS, sulfates, parabens, and synthetic fragrances, making them safe for all hair types, including those of cancer survivors. Derived from nature, ingredients like Saw Palmetto Berry extract, Witch Hazel, and essential oils like Lavender and Rosemary ensure effective, gentle care. Rooted in decades of research and a dedication to plant-based solutions, Regenix continues to lead the way in hair and scalp health.
We are starting off by trying the Keratin Damage Control to help address our increasingly dry, brittle hair. Part of this is from aging, and part from colorants and commercial shampoos. Some more is from travel and its associated hazards such as long flights and chlorinated water. This product penetrates deeply into damaged hair shafts with natural emollients and mending properties, lending the hair maximum moisture balance, strength, and rejuvenation.
BOONBOO
Revitalize your oral hygiene routine with a commitment to creating a greener future by using 100% bamboo products. Bamboo is not just a renewable resource—it’s a powerful solution to the growing plastic crisis. And I’m not sure there’s anything worse than strolling along a beach in your paradise travel destination only to look down and see plastic dental floss picks and old toothbrushes among the flotsam and jetsam. Traditional plastics mostly end up in our oceans and take centuries to decompose, which means essentially that microplastics, even after hundreds of years, will be in our water, earth, and air. But bamboo is biodegradable, fast-growing, and naturally replenishing. By choosing BOONBOO, you’re not only reducing plastic waste but also supporting a more sustainable economy.
We love this line of products! They look and feel great and do the job! Everything, from the Bamboo toothbrush and Bamboo Charcoal Whitening Toothpaste to the charcoal Dental Floss (the glass dispenser is super cute), is a delight to use. Good news for those with sensitive teeth and gums: the toothpaste is delicious, herbaceous (mint, lemon extract, coconut oil), and gentle. While the black bamboo charcoal as a whitener may seem counter-intuitive, it sure is gentler and more pleasant; going back to laboratory-strength, mass-produced toothpaste after using this is truly a shock to the system, and you can taste the chemicals in those other supermarket products. Your teeth will feel cleaner and smoother, and your mouth fresher with this product. No more stinging gums from too much peroxide!
You must brush and floss every day, preferably twice a day. Wouldn’t it be nice to contribute to a cleaner, greener future while you do? And don’t stop there: check out their other products, which include luxurious charcoal soap, toothpicks, cotton swabs, toilet paper, and more!
To make you feel even better about restocking your bathroom vanity or travel kit with BOONBOO, a portion of the profits is allocated to charitable and non-profit environmental organizations such as 1% For The Planet, 4Ocean, One Tree Planted, 8 Billion Trees, Greenpeace, Living Lands & Waters, and the Ocean Voyages Institute. BOONBOO is also B Corp Certified, Climate Neutral Certified, FSC Certified, PFAS-FREE Certified, and ISO Certified.
