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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

QUESTIONS?
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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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Noughty To The Rescue Intensive Moisture Treatment was original submitted to Style Chicks for consideration purposes. All opinions and experiences are 100% our own.

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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Gelmersea Enzyme Peeling Gel How to exfoliate sensitive skin

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Review: Gelmersea Enzyme Peeling Gel

Skincare serums can’t work their magic when their absorption is blocked by dull, dead skin cells. Dead skin cells also harbor bacteria and give acne a place to grow, So regular exfoliation is key. But sensitive skin types have a problem: topical serums like Vitamin C or retinols leave our skin irritated as it is, much less adding exfoliation on top. Can’t tolerate aHAs or other peels? Then we got the peel for you: Gelmersea Enzyme Peeling Gel.

A hydrating peel that is gentle but effective

We love Gelmersea Enzyme Peeling Gel because it is exceptionally effective but can be used daily. Mature and sensitive skin types especially benefit from fruit enzymes because dead skin comes off without rubbing and scrubbing. It can even be used on more delicate skin areas such as around the mouth.

Skin looks its’ best with regular exfoliation. Gelmersea Enzyme Peeling Gel removes dead skin without irritation. It is perfect for acne-prone skin, sensitive skin, and mature skin because it cleanses, hydrates, and exfoliates. It is gentle enough to use twice a day.

But what I really love about this gel is it removes the rough, tired look of skin. The pandemic has left many of us feeling unkempt and a bit rough around the edges so to speak. This peeling gel quickly refines skin and removes that unpolished look, replacing it with healthy, smooth skin. It is spa-quality skin refinement.

Features

  • Vegan
  • Cruelty-free
  • No animal or dairy ingredients
  • Suitable for all skin types: sensitive, mature, acne-prone, dry, and oily
High-Performance Botanical Ingredients with zero skin irritation

What Makes It Special

Gelmersea is known as The Sensitive Skin Expert. This peel is approved by more than 1,000 beauty professionals and for good reason.

While a lot of peels can leave skin softer and younger-looking, many peels are drying to the skin. This peel actually hydrates.

Typically sensitive skin formulations aren’t as high-performance due to chemical limitations. Gelmersea gives an effective peel without harsh chemicals. It gets the job done using only natural ingredients.

Let’s take a look at this spa-worthy formulation:

This Vegan-friendly, gentle peel is suited for even sensitive skin

key active ingredients

Papaya Enzymes dissolve dead skin cells

Aloe Barbadensis

Aloe Barbadensis Gel has an enzyme that repairs dead skin cells.

Aloe Barbadensis

Aloe Vera heals the skin. It provides nourishment to the skin as it contains Vitamins A, C, Bs, and E as well as minerals and enzymes.

This skin food” heals, hydrates, and accelerates skin cell growth. It provides anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties.

Papaya

Papaya

Papain Enzyme

Papaya helps breakdown and dissolve dead skin cells on the surface of the skin.

These enzymes gently digest keratinized dead epithelium cells on the skin’s surface. This reduces inflammation while maintaining protective lipid layers.

Pineapple extract is a natural exfoliator

Pineapple extract is a natural exfoliator and anti-inflammatories

Pineapple Enzymes

Pineapple Fruit contains extracts that are effective natural exfoliants to slough off dead cells on the surface of the skin while imparting soothing skin benefits.

Panenthol

Panenthol is Vitamin B5.

Panenthol is moisture-binding and soothing,

Prickly Pear restores lipids to the skin

Prickly Pear

Prickly Pear is a cactus fruit superfood packed with skin-enhancing nutrients.

It’s fatty acids including linoleic acid and oleic acid replenish lost skin lipids to moisturize and restore elasticity. Linoleic acid helps the skin stay hydrated.

It contains antioxidants, polyphenols, and Vitamin E. Its antimicrobial benefits reduce acne. [1]

As a carrier oil, it helps other active ingredients penetrate the skin. It also serves as a buffer for irritating ingredients. This is useful for sensitive skin types.

Chamomila Recutita Flower Extract

Chamomile is an antioxidant with potent skin-soothing action. [2]

It contains Terpenoids, bisabolol, and chamazulene. Chamomile Extract is excellent in a formulation with powerful actives because it contains flavones. These flavones inhibit the production of inflammation, even in deeper skin layers. [3]

Meanwhile, The apigenin in Chamomile protects the skin barrier. [4]. This gentle and hypoallergenic extract soothes skin, heals burns, and is great for helping skin recover and benefit from chemical peels.

Chamomile Extract also kills acne-causing bacteria while soothing the skin. [5]

the experience

Gelmersea Enzyme Peeling Gel has a very light fresh aloe and chamomile scent.

It is exceptionally gentle. It does not sting, and the skin is not red or irritated after use. I can use it right before applying makeup and it creates a silky smooth finish.

Unlike many peels, it hydrates the skin. This leaves skin looking and feeling wonderful.

Directions

Use daily. Massage a pump or two of gel on a dry face and neck in a circular motion for 1-2 minutes. The gel will liquefy dead skin cells and impurities. Rinse with water. I choose to work in sections: my forehead, my chin and jawline, nose, cheeks, and then throat.

The Results

From the first use, Gelmersea Enzyme Peeling Gel works quickly to slough off dead skin and sebum plugs. I hoped more stubborn blackheads on my nose would exfoliate away. They didn’t at first, but when I washed my face with Cerave that evening, blackheads began to rapidly purge. On my second use, they purged quickly. Meanwhile, I can barely keep my hands off my face because it feels so soft and smooth.

I love how it gives skin a softer, smoother, more refined look. Definitely softer and younger.

So much dead skin came off the first day, I didn’t expect much the next day. So I waited 2 days but it still managed to peel away even more dead skin. My skin felt amazingly smooth. It is gentle enough to use daily and very hydrating. I use it twice a week so dead skin cells have time to accumulate between uses.

I was very impressed with how well serums applied and absorbed after using Gelmersea Enzyme Peeling Gel.

It was so amazing on the face, I tried it on hands and cuticles. It works far better than hand or cuticle creams. Another impressive result was how it softens the horizontal wrinkles on the front of my throat – the ones that get worse with “tech neck”. And I absolutely love it for de-aging the decolletage area. It works on sensitive areas like around the lips without excess stinging.

We are SO SO impressed to be able to get spa-like results at home with this peeling gel!

Skin looks smoother, softer, younger, and more refined. There is NO irritation. NONE. I can apply makeup or my treating serums immediately after use.  Even if you can tolerate higher aHAs, there is a place in your skin routine for Gelmersea Enzyme Peeling Gel.

WHERE TO BUY IT

Find Gelmersea Enzyme Peeling Gel at https://www.gelmersea.com/products/enzyme-peeling-gel

Gelmersea Enzyme Peeling Gel

Gelmersea Enzyme Peeling Gel

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References

  1. Koubaa, M., Mhemdi, H., Barba, F.J., Angelotti, A., Bouaziz, F., Chaabouni, S.E. and Vorobiev, E. (2017), Seed oil extraction from red prickly pear using hexane and supercritical CO2: assessment of phenolic compound composition, antioxidant and antibacterial activities. J. Sci. Food Agric., 97: 613-620. doi:10.1002/jsfa.7774
  2. Merfort I, Heilmann J, Hagedorn-Leweke U, Lippold BC. In vivo skin penetration studies of camomile flavones. Pharmazie. 1994;49(7):509–511.
  3. Hou M, Sun R, Hupe M, et al. Topical apigenin improves epidermal permeability barrier homoeostasis in normal murine skin by divergent mechanisms. Exp Dermatol. 2013;22(3):210–215. doi:10.1111/exd.12102
  4. Journal of Clinical and Aesthetic Dermatology, January 2009, pages 404
  5. Srivastava, Janmejai K et al. “Chamomile: A herbal medicine of the past with bright future.” Molecular medicine reports vol. 3,6 (2010): 895-901. doi:10.3892/mmr.2010.377
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