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.

Depends really on the length of the trip, but my minimum shaving set-up for an overnight trip is:
- Feather DX (alternatively Mühle open comb)
- Arko/Valobra stick or Nivea cream
- Mühle Silvertip Fibre brush

This mine now complete with my new travel strop
This is for longer trips but for short trips where I need to shave I just take 1 str8 and strop before I go and on my jeans after shaving.
Before


All set


In the bag ready to go


I forgot to add my sponge to the photo but it doesn't go in the bag either but in the bowl in a plastic bag separately