LHOOQ Journal Vol.5
Why Your Skin Dries Out While Traveling. How to Combat Dryness from Hotels, Transit, and Air Conditioning
After a trip or business trip, your skin often feels drier than usual. When traveling, multiple factors that differ from your daily routine—such as air conditioning during transit, hotel room environments, UV exposure, and changes in your lifestyle rhythm—combine to affect your skin. Instead of adding special treatments, the key is to replenish necessary moisture in small amounts at each stage: before transit, during transit, and after arriving at your hotel.
4 Reasons Why Skin Tends to Dry Out While Traveling
- Air conditioning during transit: You may spend long periods in air-conditioned environments on airplanes, Shinkansen trains, or in cars.
- Hotel room environment: You may experience a different kind of dryness in rooms where heating or cooling systems are in use.
- UV exposure: You are likely to spend more time outdoors while traveling, increasing your exposure to sunlight.
- Changes in lifestyle rhythm: Shifts in sleep, meals, and bathing habits can make your skin feel different than usual.
A characteristic of traveling is that these environmental changes tend to overlap, rather than stemming from a single cause.
Don't Overdo Your Travel Skincare
It can be difficult to pack all the items you use in your daily routine when you travel.
What is important is not to increase your special care, but to choose items that are easy to use on multiple areas like the face, hair, and body, and to keep your usual routine as simple as possible.
At LHOOQ, we recommend our Universal Oil and Watery Serum Mist as essential care that is easy to incorporate even when you are away.
Keep your routine simple, even while traveling.
How to Use Before Transit, During Transit, and at the Hotel
- Before transit: Apply a small amount of Universal Oil, then layer the Watery Serum Mist over it.
- During transit: When you feel dryness, hold the mist a little away from your face and lightly spray to layer.
- After arriving at the hotel: After washing your face, use the oil and mist to condition your face, neck, and any other areas that feel dry. Use it on the ends of your hair as needed.
- After going out: On days when you are concerned about sun exposure or dryness, do not rub your skin; simply replenish moisture based on your skin's condition that day.
The point is not to use a lot at once, but to adjust in small amounts while observing your skin's condition at that moment.
Keep Your Nighttime Care Simple at the Hotel, Too
When traveling, you may sleep in room temperatures and air conditions different from what you are used to. Do not increase the steps in your nighttime routine; instead, replenish what is necessary while observing your post-wash skin condition.
Apply a small amount of oil to areas prone to dryness, such as your cheeks and mouth, then layer the mist. You do not need to use the same amount on areas that feel heavy.
Even while traveling, keep your basic principle: "the right amount, in the right place."
Portable care for your travels and business trips.
Bring Your Essential Basic Care, Simplified
You don't need to add special steps to your skincare while traveling. Continuing your usual basic care in an easy-to-carry format is a great way to maintain your routine without overpacking.
In transit, at the hotel, or while out and about—check your skin's condition in every situation and replenish only what you need, when you need it.
Bring Simple, Essential Care on Your Travels.
Use Universal Oil and Watery Serum Mist to care for your face, hair, and body in one fluid motion. This routine is easy to pack for trips and business travel.