Thread: what does your travel kit look like?

This is my shaving kit for hunting trips. No pre shave or after shave just basics. I definitely leave the Floid after shave at home. What does your travel kit look like?

well I guess I could take a picture tonight and see if I can get it on here, but I usually leave home for 2-3 months at a time so I bring 4 razors, 5-7 soaps and creams , after shaves and balms and witch hazel,my gssixgun table strops one in leather the other leather with .3 crox,my towels that I soak my face with, and my naniwa 3/8k and 12k , though im still playing with the hones on a sacrificial razor , right now I just have razors honed by Glen and Lynn to shave with. so I guess I treat it like home a carry my RADS to the field with me ! I don't know what I will do for just regular travel? tc

Up until now I never travelled with straights. I would take my Merkur 34c instead. For the first time, I took a straight on a business trip to Tulsa. No strop since I only stayed one night (possibly 2 if this flight is delayed any farther). I stropped up the razor before leaving and packed it. The following is my standard travel gear:

Proraso red in tub
Semogue boar brush
Edwin Jagger stainless bowl
Razorock alum
Osma styptic
Nivea AS

My travel pouches are the ones that you get on first class flights. I have to use three because they are small. The straight worked well while traveling so I may look into getting a small paddle strop. Or, I may just get that Neil Miller I've been eyeing and use my latigo for travel.

I know there are other travel threads but nothing wrong with getting this going again. So what do you travel with? Do you take your straight(s)? Do you take a strop or do you pack enough straights? What soap/cream? What brush?

I have two different set ups. I travel for business often. Depending on the length of the trip depends what bag I take. I have the standard leather dop bag for short trips. Then I have a larger bag that when unzipped it hangs on a door hook or towel bar. I am also a head shaver so my list of stuff can get lengthy if its a long trip. But my basic travel set is this....

Face
1- VTG Gillette or merkur HD, dreadnaught shavette
2- sample size 1/4 or 1/2 oz of any given cream. Get the jars online an label them or just buy a sampler
3- nivea sensitive skin. because I don't care if it was to get broke. cheap to replace.
4- couple extra DE blades
5- Not an actual travel brush but nice smaller badger brush EJ
Head (all headblade products because they do a excellent job IMO)
1- Shave slick cream
2- Headshed wash
3- sport razor...... note sometimes I use a DE depending on time
4- clearhead aftershave
5- again an extra blade

Surprisingly if packed correctly it doesn't take up much space. I don't travel with my actual straights as I have a bit of fear of damaging them while traveling. My face cream is going to be changed to La Toja this week. Just received a new stick an it should travel real nice. Used to carry C.O. Bigelo till a tube got busted. That's when I switched to the sample jars.

Which one ? =P















Well, I know I'm nasty... Travel sets is my "péché mignon".

I used the first one as a travel set for a time, but now I keep it at my girlfriend's place. It contains a J.Dobby english wedge from the 1860', a travel badger in silver and Tcheon Fung Sing soap.

The second one is my most recent. I keep it at my place. It has a J. Rodgers and a corn razor, plus a travel badger in horn (and several other tools). No soap for now.

The third one is the one I use now for my travels, when I go visit my parents several days.... I traded the trousse with a friend. It contains three framebacks. Always efficient with all kinds of beards, and easy to maintain in a good state of use. A chrome travel badger "l'éléphant", and a soap Proraso Red. Several "emergency meds", tooth brush, several free samples of body / hair soap and creams...

Here it is =)

Superspeed adjustable and a Derby blade. If I'm going to bother shaving while traveling.

Here's mine: Il Bisonte dopp bag. It's like the Tardis. Looks small on the outside, but big on the inside.

NM shell cordovan
Simpson PJ1
MWF in aluminium
Trusty Wosty chopper
Deodorant
After Shave (d&g at the moment)

This week by car, 1500 miles and several stops.

6/8 Sheffield
Small Bigelow tube
Travel brush
Homemade leather and pasted webbing strop
Thayer's aloe witch hazel
Clubman classic

BBS at Hampton Inn Fredericksburg VA this morning.

I'm almost done with my travel kit. I need a travel strop, maybe the SRD Premium Paddle Strop?

This si what I travel with.



Muhle R41 with Feather blades, Muhle synthetic travel brush and a shave stick. Plenty of room inside left for an alum block, AS, tooth paste/tooth brush and the rest.

Bob