I think that OM Skincare’s Mindful Traveller is a fabulous idea: a gorgeous, sleek bottle that houses travel-friendly levels of OM’s Pure Glow Cleanser and Daily Radiance Moisturiser. I refer to it as a bottle, but it’s not necessarily – it’s a lightweight tube, with two little refillable bottles, one at each end. It’s like a luxury perfume purse-spray, but full of your skincare essentials instead.
Interestingly (for some) (perhaps), I’ve been waiting for a product like this to come along; I’ve always lamented the fact that mini-sized cleansers and moisturisers are never in very convenient packaging. You receive a little tube, or a pot having a screw-top lid, and it’s all very perfectly-formed and cute, but it’s the sort of stuff that jangles about the bottom of the makeup bag and grouped into the sink at the hotel whenever you try to perform your skincare routine after seventy-eight portions of Prosecco.
The Mindful Traveller brings a sense of decadence to the proceedings with its chic packaging; I’d be happy to give this a place in my handbag, whether it shouted out for an upgrade. (“Let me out! The mascara is smearing blobs on me and also the toothbrush keeps shaking water from the head!”) It so happens that each of the skincare products inside were on my small list of upcoming skincare reviews; the Pure Glow Cleanser for its lovely, fresh feel (a great summer alternative to a balm, if you like something lighter) and the Daily Radiance Moisturiser for its non-greasy powers of hydration.
Actually, the review ended up being to be on the No Lines Nourishing Cream rather than the Daily Radiance, because I found that it packed an extra punch in terms of keeping your skin really moisturised throughout the day. It’s a multi-tasker, that one, because if you find it too rich for all-over use then it can be applied as a luxury eye cream – its intense formula works well on crepey, dry skin and wrinkles. But the Daily Radiance Moisturiser is perhaps a better choice for the Mindful Traveller – it’s balancing on oily/combination skin and hydrating enough for drier skin, making it more of a suit-all-situations cream…
Anyway, cleanser in one end of the Mindful Traveller and moisturiser within the other – the cleanser can be used a proper, massage-in-flannel-off treat but it’s also light enough to just remove with cotton wool pads if you’re on the go and need a quicker fix. The moisturiser can be worn day or night and sits beautifully underneath makeup as well as over the top of pretty much any serum I’ve tried.
I have ten from the amazing Mindful Travellers (worth lb48 each) to give up to UK readers. All you need do is leave a comment below before noon on Friday 28th July saying which destination you’d like to take your Mindful Traveller to.
(Mine would be anywhere hot. Anywhere. Hot. Somewhere with a creche, just to drop the babies off for a couple of hours a day; obviously I’d function as the crazy paranoid mother who would pitch on a sunlounger right outside the door, but a minimum of I’d get some time to read a magazine!)
One entry per person – for full T&Cs please visit here before you enter. Best of luck. You can find more info on all the lovely OM Skincare products online here.
