From Sunscreen to Shaving Cream, the Best Travel-Sized Toiletries for Men (2025)

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• Louis Vuitton LVxNBA Cloakroom Dopp Kit

  

  Virgil Abloh, artistic director for Louis Vuitton’s menswear collections, launched a highly successful collaboration with the NBA in November 2020—if you missed out on those pieces, the house just dropped a new capsule collection, which includes this leather Dopp kit embossed in the brand’s signature monogram canvas. Details include an adjustable handle, official NBA patches and a gold chain that’s meant to evoke thoughts of the league’s championship trophy.

  Buy Now: About $1,900

• Jo Malone Limited-Edition Fresh & Noble Travel Collection

  

  This just-launched kit from the fragrance brand that encourages scent layering includes four travel-ready products designed to work together beautifully: a Body & Hand Wash and an Exfoliating Shower Gel, both in Lime Basil & Mandarin, and a pair of colognes in Wood Sage & Sea Salt and Myrrh & Tonka. The result is a blend of woody scents with fresh notes of basil, sage and citrus.

  Buy Now: $68

• Acqua di Parma Barbiere Soft Shaving Cream

  

  Pomegranate seed oil, basil extract and hyaluronic acid are among the ingredients in this luscious shave cream, which hydrates skin and protects against razor burn. The scent, meanwhile, takes its cue from the Italian brand’s iconic Colonia fragrance, with notes of lemon, lavender and vetiver. The 75ml tube adds to its travel-ready appeal.

  Buy Now: $53

• Hims & Hers The Blur Stick Concealer

  

  While still with ex-fiancée Jennifer Lopez, Alex Rodriguez invested in Hims & Hers, an innovative wellness and personal-care company that showcases its products on parallel sites: ForHims.com and ForHers.com. While his personal relationship has fizzled, this professional partnership has resulted in its first product: The Blur Stick, a concealer for men that covers everything from dark circles to acne and razor burn. Available in eight skin tones, The Blur Stick is easy to apply and goes on light and smooth (lessons and tips are offered on the product page).

  Buy Now: $17

• Jack Black Oil-Free Sun Guard

  

  Oil-free and vitamin-enriched, this SPF 45 sunscreen is water- and sweat-resistant without leaving a greasy or heavy residue, while also staying on during physical activity.

  Buy Now: $21

• Boy de Chanel Fortifying Gel Moisturizer

  

  Chanel’s popular Boy de Chanel skincare collection for men includes this non-greasy gel moisturizer, an ideal choice post-shave. Formulated with hyaluronic acid for up to 24 hours of hydration, ingredients also include Costa Rican green coffee extract as an antioxidant and a powder for a cool, soft finish.

  Buy Now: $80

• LAPCOS Daily Skin Mask Charcoal

  

  This Korean beauty brand was introduced in the U.S. in 2017, and since then it’s become a go-to solution for people seeking results-driven products. These individually packaged charcoal sheet masks are perfect for traveling, allowing you to create an on-the-go spa experience. Charcoal is known to be a great detoxifier, enabling these masks to draw out impurities and minimize pores while also hydrating and tightening skin.

  Buy Now: $17 for a pack of five

• Heathmade Relax Deodorant

  

  Heathmade is a terrific story with well-considered products: The Los Angeles-based brand was founded by a young boy named Heath, who loved chemistry and experimenting with different formulas. Out of that a business was born—Heath is now 10 years old and selling a wide range of wellness and grooming products for men and women alike. The all-natural Relax deodorant is aluminum-free and scented with wild oranges, ginger and ylang ylang, with ingredients that also include shea butter, moisture-absorbing arrowroot powder, and odor-neutralizing magnesium powder. A portion of the sales from each made-in-L.A. product is donated to local philanthropic organizations.

  Buy Now: $14.50

• Odacité Shampoo Bar

  

  The time has arrived to ditch the shampoo bottle and switch to a bar. Odacité helps to combat the idea that roughly 552 million shampoo and conditioner bottles are discarded each year; instead, try this soap-free bar, which cleans while nourishing your scalp, thanks to ingredients like argan, coconut, jojoba and orange oil. This travel-friendly bar will last 60 to 80 washes, but even better, it will prevent you from throwing away three plastic shampoo bottles.

  Buy Now: $18

• Dior Purple Oud Fragrance Coffret With Travel Spray

  

  Dior has enhanced its La Collection Privée scents to include a 15ml leather-cased travel spray and refills that launch in June. Available across the fragrance collection, you can buy the spray atomizer or a trio of refills or, as seen here, purchase a set (often referred to as a coffret when offered as a boxed grouping) that includes a full-sized fragrance. Purple Oud is a popular unisex scent for its notes of violet spiced with pink pepper and saffron.

  Buy Now: $250+

• Ceylon Facial Toner

  

  Patrick Boeteng II founded Ceylon (the name is derived from the black tea) as a skincare brand formulated with men of color in mind. Ingredients in Ceylon’s Facial Toner include coix seed, a Chinese medicinal herb that helps to improve skin tone and texture, as well as witch hazel for its astringent properties and glycerin to drive moisture to the skin’s surface.

  Buy Now: $30

• Retrouvé Conditioning Tonic with Chamomile

  

  This chamomile-infused face tonic is vegan-friendly and hydrates while it conditions and softens skin, with ingredients that include sodium lactate for mild exfoliating and pro-vitamin B5 to soothe skin post-sun or after shaving.

  Buy Now: $165

• Reuzel Intensive Care Eye Cream

  

  In the morning after a shower or before you go to bed, don’t hesitate to add an eye cream to your routine. Reuzel is a Rotterdam-based grooming brand that’s popular in barbershops and recently launched an eponymous skincare collection that’s vegan, cruelty-free and free of parabens and sulfates. This quick-drying, non-greasy eye cream helps to reduce the appearance of dark circles, while the lightweight formula won’t clog pores.

• Tiffany & Co. Travel Toiletry Case

  

  For the feel of a true globetrotter, this cotton-canvas Tiffany & Co. travel case features a logo first used on the house’s silver at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. The Italian-made case features a front pocket and zip closure and is lined with wipeable polyurethane in Tiffany Blue for easy cleaning.

  Buy Now: $550