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6 Gift Ideas for Travelers

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GIFT IDEAS FOR TRAVELERS

With Christmas just around the corner, it seems everyone is on the hunt for that perfect gift to give to the traveler in their life. According to a recent Access article, Travel and Tourism Statistics: The Ultimate Collection, Americans spent $1.1 trillion dollars on all things related to the travel industry in 2019.

With traveling one of the favorite pastimes of many people around the world, there are so many items that would make fun and useful things to give and receive, including these.

6 GIFT IDEAS FOR TRAVELERS

Here are 6 gift ideas for travelers.

GIFT IDEAS FOR TRAVELERS #1:  E-Bag Weekender Backpack

Almost every airline charges a fee for checking a bag on a domestic flight these days. For trips within the U.S. and even short weekend excursions, the Weekender backpack made by eBags is a perfect solution. It can hold several days worth of clothes and has many designated pockets for electronics, undergarments, and many other accessories. Even when stuffing it to the brim, the Weekender backpack still fits within the size requirements to qualify as a carry-on.

GIFT IDEAS FOR TRAVELERS #2: Travel Padlocks

There’s no such thing as being too safe in today’s world. A traveler can always use a good padlock for their suitcase, briefcase, or even rentable lockers in airports. The good news is that these are relatively inexpensive, so if you just spent a lot of money purchasing one of the Philadelphia homes for sale or a house anywhere else recently, this gift won’t break your budget.

Packing Cubes

Anyone who travels a lot knows how hard it can be to organize a suitcase, especially for long trips. If there is any product out there that helps when it comes to cutting down the clutter in your bag, it’s packing cubes. These inexpensive devices have so many purposes and can make packing and unpacking less stressful and easier to manage.

Travel Adapter

A travel adapter is incredibly useful for traveling abroad, and with all the different types of plugs on the market now, they are universally handy. Between the different Apple and Android devices and outlets, an adapter makes an ideal stocking stuffer for the traveler in your world.

Dry Shampoo

Everyone on the road often knows the annoying feeling of dirty hair after being on a long-haul overnight flight or in a car for hours. If you go several days without being able to take a shower, something as simple as dry shampoo can make all the difference in the world. It’s compact, inexpensive, and helps to make flat, oily hair looking and smelling fresh. While a shower is still the best option, dry shampoo is a close second.

Scratch Travel Maps

Many travelers are proud of where they go and love to display their adventures in their home for all to see. Scratch travel maps are a relatively new trend and have become extremely popular among the traveling community. Almost all of them start out with a black background and a gold layer of film over the map, and much like a scratcher lottery ticket, you use a coin to mark all the places that you’ve visited. They are fun to keep up with and are visually pretty to look at too.

Noughty To The Rescue Intensive Moisture Hair Mask Review

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Review: Noughty To The Rescue Intensive Moisture Treatment Hair Mask

Frizzy, dry hair just needs to be loved.  Noughty To The Rescue Intensive Moisture Treatment Hair Mask is a natural, vegan-friendly formula. It delivers deep hydration even to hair that seems past salvation.  It is ideal for porous hair, protein sensitive hair, curlies, and those with sensitivities.
Noughty To The Rescue

Noughty To The Rescue Intensive Moisture Treatment

Introducing Noughty

Noughty is a natural hair care line from the United Kingdom. Noughty’s innovative team includes a botanist specializing in the chemistry of plants and their sustainability.

The Noughty brand contains several lines geared towards specific hair care needs. Its’ award-winning formulas contain natural oils to restore damaged hair.

Once the hair becomes very damaged, it often loses its ability to retain moisture. Noughty To The Rescue Intensive Moisture Treatment has moisturizing ingredients plus humectants to help hair lock in moisture.

Part of the Noughty To The Rescue haircare range

Noughty To The Rescue benefits + Features

  • 97% Natural
  • Vegan
  • Cruelty-free
  • no parabens, petrochemicals, sulfates, or silicones
  • Ideal for porous hair, protein sensitive hair, those with sensitivities
HIGH-PERFORMANCE VEGAN HAIRCARE DRIVEN BY SCIENCE

Noughty To The Rescue Intensive Moisture Treatment

We took a good look at what exactly makes this hair fixing formulation work. It is packed with ingredients that restore lifeless hair while helping hair retain precious moisture. It’s clever formulation uses oils that tend to make my hair soft but leave a residue.

In this formulation, the oils wash away cleanly and my coarse, curly hair is shiny, hydrated, and soft.

Let’s take a look at this Noughty formulation:

Key Ingredients

Sweet Almond Oil fixes dry, brittle hair

Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis Extract

Better known as sweet almonds. Sweet Almond Oil is hair reparative and softening.

It has amino acids and proteins to strengthen the hair strand and smooth the appearance of the hair cuticle. Very helpful in restoring the appearance of health on damaged hair.

Sweet Almond Oil is a light oil, ideal for very stressed or very fine texture hair. almond oil contains proteins and vitamins A, B, D, and E. It adds shine to fine, lackluster, and dull hair.

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Shea Butter

Butyros-permum Parkii

Butyros-permum Parkii is Shea Butter.

Derived from the Shea nut, this emollient is packed with vitamins and softens the hair.

The direct application of Shea Butter can leave hair dull and greasy. But within a formulation, it washes away clean and leaves hair smooth.

Coconut Oil

Coconut Oil’s moisturizing properties are well-known. It penetrates deeper than other oils.

Coconut Oil

Coconut Oil

Rich in vitamins and fatty acids, it lends a softness to roughed-up hair.

Coconut Oil can be especially helpful to coarse and curly hair because coconut oil helps hair retain both protein and moisture. It also leaves hair with a nice slip.

Direct Coconut Oil application is messy and difficult to wash clean. In this formulation there is all the coconut benefit but it rinses out clean!

Limnanthes Alba

Meadowfoam

Limnanthes Alba is Meadowfoam Seed Oil derived from Meadowfoam flowers.

Meadowfoam Seed Oil is high in fatty acids. It is highly emollient and can lock moisture into the hair.

Limnanthes Alba is particularly useful on frizzy hair and dry, colored hair to help it stay hydrated.

Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil

Argan Oil is popular in hair care.

Argan

Argan Oil keeps hair hydrated while also smoothing hair.

It promotes elasticity which reduces hair breakage. If you hair hair breakage or want to grow longer hair, Argan Oil is quite helpful.

Argan oil massaged into the scalp aids in stimulating hair growth. It softens hair length but its’ best use is the repair of damaged follicles.

Sunflower

Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Extract

Sunflower Seed Extract is hydrating, nourishing, and a supporting carrier base oil. Rich in Vitamin E, it retains moisture in the hair. Frizzy hair is naturally more dry and brittle. Sunflower oil retains moisture in brittle hair, thereby reducing hair breakage.

Avena Strigosa Seed Extract

Black oat extract is rich in amino acids. It helps even brittle, dry hair retain moisture. It also imparts a healthy-looking natural gloss.

Behentrimonium Chloride

This one sounds like a chemical, but it is a conditioning agent obtained from the oil of field mustard seeds (oilseed turnip).

This plant-based agent detangles the hair and reduces static while softening and strengthening the hair. [1] It penetrates the hair shaft so it is a potent conditioner.

Lecithin

Lecithin is a fat found in plants like soybeans. It enhances the hair’s natural barrier, smoothing each shaft to renew the outer layer of the hair. Damaged hair has a ragged cuticle, making hair look dull.

Noughty To The Rescue

Noughty To The Rescue

texture and Consistency

Noughty To The Rescue is a rich, creamy formulation. It is quite thick but easily melts between my palms and soaks into the hair. Even on long hair, a few tablespoons is more than enough to coat thick, curly hair.

Thick formulation for serious rescue potential

The scent is heady notes of argan with almond scent.

It is a ten-ounce tub.

Noughty To The Rescue Masque is a thick, rich, creamy formulation

Where to Buy It

Find the Noughty To the Rescue line at Ulta and noughtyhaircare.com

Stay tuned for more details on the Noughty To The Rescue line

Stay tuned for more details on the Noughty To The Rescue line

Noughty To The Rescue Intensive Moisture Treatment

Noughty To The Rescue Intensive Moisture Treatment

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REFERENCES

  1. Kortemeier, U., Langer, S., Schwab, P., Yang, B., Howe, A., & Facuri, S. (2013). Ingredients for ethnic hair care products: ethnic care. South African Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Review, 40(3), 18-22.

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Osmotics Nutrilash Brow Lash Enhancer What You Need to Know

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Review: Osmotics Nutrilash Brow + Lash Enhancer

Who wouldn’t want to up their eyelash game? Lash growth and lengthening products abound. Many of them cause some eye irritation and redness. For eyelash growth without the irritation, we recently discovered Osmotics Nutrilash Brow and Lash Enhancer, ideal for growing longer, thicker eyelashes and filling in bare spots on eyebrows.

Osmotics Nutrilash Brow and Lash Enhancer

Lash Growth Options

If you have sworn off lash growth products due to some brands leaving your eyes feeling dry, irritated, red and grainy, you may be reluctant to try another lash product. We tried several over time, with various degrees of success. Osmotics Nutrilash Brow and Lash Enhancer offers non-irritating lash enhancement.

Latisse for lash growth

One lash lengthening product you’re likely familiar with is Latisse.

Latisse does grow longer lashes. But the active ingredient, bimatoprost, is a known eye irritant.

The other proven ingredient that causes two known active ingredients that cause lash growth in various lash products is both known to irritate the eyes.

While you are not supposed to actually get the liquid in your eye, just on your lashes, it is very difficult not to accidentally get some in the eye.

ABOUT Osmotics Nutrilash Brow and Lash Enhancer

Osmotics Nutrilash takes a different approach to lash growth. It focuses on lash line density and addressing sparse areas.

Instead of thin, spindly, longer lashes, Nutrilash promotes stronger and fuller lashes, notably, filling in sparse spots.

I find this creates a lusher, fuller lashline and more defined eye. Length can always be added with mascara, but lashline fullness is harder to fake.

Osmotics Nutrilash Brow and Lash Enhancer FEATURES

  • This product is far less irritating to the eye because, like all Osmotics products, it only contains the ingredients clinically proven to get the job done, no fillers, no extras. This means less possible irritation due to chemical interaction and reaction to fillers, dyes, etc.
  • It uses the same technology to grow hair as the Osmotics Follicle Nutrient System. It is tested as safe for eyes.
What is unique about Osmotics Nutrilash Brow and Lash Enhancer

What is unique about Osmotics Nutrilash Brow and Lash Enhancer

  • It features 28 disposable applicator brushes and a clean dispensing weekly four tube system, so there is no product contamination from “double dipping” onto your eye and into the product.
Four tubes and 28 disposable brushes for easy, sanitary use and direct lash application

Four tubes and 28 disposable brushes for easy, sanitary use and direct lash application

  • I particularly like filling out my brow tail to the proper length and applying it to the top arch of my brows to encourage brow hair growth for a youthful, fuller, lifted brow.
  • Lash extensions can take their toll on fragile lashes. If your lashes look lackluster after removing lash extensions, Osmotics Nutrilash Brow and Lash Enhancer can get them healthy and back in shape.
  • Tip: Got one brow or eye that droops more than the other? Most people do. Add just an extra dot at the top of the arch of your drooping brow to encourage hair growth in an area that will visually raise your brow

VERDICT: I like the fuller lashline look I get from Osmotics Nutrilash Brow and Lash Enhancer, as well as the brow enhancement, my brows look fuller and more natural, especially since I can fill out the tails of the brows and sparse spots. It does require a bit more time than Latisse does to grow lashes, about 4-6 weeks. But I prefer the thick, lush, healthy look of the Osmotics grown lashes to the thinner and spindly look of the Latisse lashes.

I have not experienced any eye irritation or redness with daily use. One application is enough for lashes and touching up the sparse spots on my brows.

WHERE TO BUY Osmotics Nutrilash Brow and Lash Enhancer

Find Osmotics Nutrilash Brow and Lash Enhancer at Osmotics.com, DermStore.com, and SkinStore

Osmotics Nutrilash Brow and Lash Enhancer

Osmotics Nutrilash Brow and Lash Enhancer

Osmotics Nutrilash Brow and Lash Enhancer

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