Mother’s Day Gift Guide 2024: The Best Travel Skincare Products

Mom may have a daily skincare routine that she follows religiously at home but packing a variety of creams, gels and serums can be challenging when traveling – especially if she doesn’t want to check a bag.

Luckily, there are so many luxurious, hard-working skincare products available in TSA-friendly sizes. They’ll work overtime to keep her skin looking and feeling its best even through the trials and tribulations of travel.

She’ll so appreciate these mini gifts that offer maxi benefits.

The perfect traveling companion, this customer favorite works its magic on dry, chapped and irritated skin, using rich, nourishing plant-based butters to help it heal. It also reduces redness and the appearance of dark spots and improves firmness and elasticity, proving that good things do indeed come in small packages. Price: $31.49

Eight Saints offers an extensive selection of Minis but this trio is all she needs to cleanse, moisturize and brighten her skin on the go. It comes with their signature Down to Earth Swirled Mud Gel Cleanser, Night Shift Hydration Gel and Cloud Whip C Cream and you can even add a Discovery Kit featuring samples of eight bestselling skincare products for free with your order. Price: $34.20

Give her smooth as glass skin with this lightweight, fragrance-free serum that will leave her glowing. Chock full of jojoba oil, niacinamide and probiotics, it’s hydrating, clarifying and pore-minimizing, leaving her skin dewy and soft as a baby’s. Truly. Price: $39

If she’s a checked bag kind of mom, opt for The Routine, Fount Society’s five product set that make skin look and feel great. If she’s a minimalist who only totes a carry-on, this brightening oil packs a powerful punch in a beautiful little bottle. Fueled by Vitamin C, turmeric, rosehip and sea buckthorn, it evens out her complexion and improves its appearance even after a long flight. Price: $82

This female-founded, independently owned beauty company is all about using botanicals to heal the skin and help it thrive. Handmade in small batches using natural ingredients formulated by master esthetician, Athena Hewett, products are filled with Clary Sage, Damask Rose, Sage, Pink Peppercorn and other delicious-smelling goodies rather than chemicals. The Discovery Kit comes with sample sizes of everything she needs to enjoy a few luxurious bespoke Monastery facials on the road. She’ll love that you just introduced her to her new favorite skincare brand. Price: $32

There’s a reason the OG remains Smashbox’s #1 product: it works. Designed to prime her skin so makeup looks better and lasts longer, it also smooths pores and fine lines and acts like a barrier against environmental pollutants, dry airplane and hotel air and other travel hazards. Price: $42

Talk about beauty sleep! All she needs is a couple of drops before bedtime to wake up with plump, supple skin that looks fresh and youthful. She may have gone on vacation but people will think she went time traveling back to her younger days. Price: $60.19

Even if it rains the whole time she’s away, this Vitamin C-infused moisturizer will ensure her skin glows like the sun. Clean, illuminating and super hydrating, it’s a vacation in a travel-friendly jar. In fact, it comes with a free travel pouch. Price: $52

Made for all skin tones, this little miracle worker visibly fades all types of dark spots, from sun spots to age spots to post-acne spots. Her skin will look fresher after applying a few drops and the appearance of those spots will be noticeably reduced by the end of her one week trip. Price: $39.99

Like mom herself, this Super Serum from her trusted brand, Olay, is a multi-tasker. Providing five luxury serum benefits in one TSA-friendly bottle, it firms, hydrates, evens out skin tone, smooths lines and improves skin texture with just a few drops a day. Price: $34.99

Retinol is great for renewing cells and, combined with Vitamin C and nine plant-based oils, this luxurious oil will do the heavy lifting while she sleeps. Providing lots of benefits, from regeneration to hydration, it will leave her radiant. Even if she’s tired, her skin won’t look it. Price: $85

Dark circles. Puffiness. Eyes can be the first area of the body to show the results of travel but this certified organic eye cream is so effective, she’ll look like she’s been lazing on the couch. Price: $64

Great for both her skin and the planet, this ingenious invention takes Fig. 1’s beloved micellar oil cleanser and incorporates it into an easy to travel with wipe that dissolves itself along with her makeup, leaving zero waste. If only everything were this easy. Price: $22

Travel often means paring down daily skincare rituals to just the essentials and Skin Pharm has made it as simple as possible with this must-have duo. The Foaming Cleanser and Recovery Lotion are free of sulfates, paraben, phthalates and artificial fragrances to keep her skin healthy and radiant. Price: $65