Soap Travel Essentials

What to pack? If you are anything like me you will start with a bed covered in clothes and accessories whilst the bathroom floor is covered with the ‘long list’ of toiletries that need refining down, and down and down…. unless it’s for a short work trip where I have packing light streamlined and finely tuned. 🤔

But what do you actually need? Whilst to some extent that will depend upon your destination and the length of your trip, the exceptional multi-purposness of traditional Marseille Soap lends itself perfectly to packing for your travels no matter where you are heading.

Overall Top 5 Best Soaps for Travelling 2024

• 1) Traditional Pure Olive Savon de Marseille x 100g Multipurpose, this iconic soap can be used for body, hair, teeth, laundry and to sooth bites and stings. 
• 2) Set of 10 Wrapped 35g Soaps. Small and compact these are easy and light to travel with. Fragrances to suit all the family, you can be use one at your first location and a second at the next without fear of wastage. Also perfect to have in your hand luggage for washing hands on the move. Our customers also use these to gift to hosts and people they meet on their excursions. 
• 3) Lavender with Goat's Milk & Essential Oil, 100g Naturally Antibacterial this soap with Lavender Essential Oil is a great travel option. Formulated with Goat's Milk which is soothing and gently exfoliating it's a great all-round option for those on the go.
• 4) Citronella with Sweet Almond Oil x 100g If you are travelling somewhere with bitey things then this is the soap for you. Citronella naturally deters bugs including mosquitos and when layered with our citronella spray this will certainly help keep your trip bite free.
• 5) Ceylon Cinnamon with Goat's Milk x 100g A wonder ingredient, Ceylon Cinnamon essential oil alleviate aches, pains, and stiffness whilst its antibacterial properties make it ideal for use in addressing acne, rashes, and infection. It smells great too!

Top 5 Best Soaps for Travelling with Children 2024

• 1) Travelling with kids or clumsy adults? Pop a stain bar in your bag. It won't take up much room and will effortlessly remove stains from your Airbnb carpet, to your favourite dress. 
• 2) Aloe Vera Soap with Alpine Goats Milk,  Aloe Vera is one of today’s magic plants. Aloe is  a great moisturiser and contains several anti-inflammatory properties whilst being antibacterial too. It also helps wound healing and skin regeneration in general and is also very gentle. Great for children and adults.
• 3) Strawberry & Rhubarb Soap on a Rope. The one that will encourage them to wash! A great fruity fragrance, a tactile and fun format, easy to move from location to location this soap will ensure the kids choose to keep clean!
• 4) Savon de Marseille boring and practical this is the soap that cleans everything. 100% natural, 100% hypo-allergenic, the 'Natural' has no scent and will keep everyone and everything effortlessly clean.
• 5) Donkey Shaped Lavender Soap - A novelty shape choose a Donkey or Teddy, these cute soaps can entertain as well as clean. Name them, make up stories about them, role play with them, and wash too. These will keep the little ones amused when hanging around at airports or suffering from over-tired holiday strops!

Best Travel Soaps for Laundry 2024

• 1) Pure Olive Savon de Marseille x 100g The only soap you actually need. Chemical Free, 100% natural and iconic. The most versatile soap in the world. 
• 2) Stain Bar, 100g. A magic 100% natural solution for any stain in a travel friendly size and format. 

No.1 Travel Essential to Keep the Bugs Away 2024

• - Pure Citronella Spray

Citronella spray jumped straight to the top of our 'hero' products last year when we introduced it to the UK and for a while we struggled to keep it in stock. 100% Natural, made simply with two types of citronella oil. It has a strong intense scent on application which settles to a subtle fragrance that lasts all day. A dry oil formula it also leaves your limbs with a beautiful, healthy sheen. Or just use a drop on your bedding or in your hair.

You could also consider using one of our Citronella Soaps first. Perfumed they are a very different product to the spray but will give your skin a dose of a fragrance to keep the bugs away! Choose from a citronella soap with a sweet almond oil formulation or shea butter. 

Top Multipurpose Soap for Travel

• Savon de Marseille, we've said it before, we will say it again, this is probably the most versatile soap in the world. The only product you actually need to travel with this comes in a variety of sizes to suit your needs. This will cover your emergency laundry, swimsuits, dog collars, bibs and kids! You can use it as shampoo, in the shower and to soothe the bites you acquired when you didn't buy our Citronella Spray!

Skin-soothing Travel Essentials 2024

Sunburn? Windburn? Waterburn? Coldburn? All of these issues can be eased with Maison Berthe Guilhem's Arnica Balm. A little goes a long way and we can vouch for the fact that it really does soothe skin suffering from weather related trauma!

Maison Berthe Guilhem's hand balm for deeply nourishing dry skin on arms, legs and shoulders. Great for 'pre-tan prep' and also as a follow up to the arnica balm as your skin calms and the 'burn' subsides. 

Aloe Vera Gel - this soothing plant instantly cools and soothes sunburn, windburn, oven burns and more. Pop in your bag to rescue even the most delicate of children's skin's should you need to. 

Travel Size Liquid Fragranced Marseille Soaps

We know some of you love a liquid soap. So we have our best selling fragrances available in 250ml bottles which make them easier to travel with. Our small liquid soaps are perfect for travelling, and are formulated with coconut oil and are free from SLS's and parabens. You can use these for hands, body, hair and in an emergency your clothes too. Verbena? Provence? Olive? Rose? Honey? Monoi? Pathcouli? Almond? Oriental Verbena? Which will you choose? 

5 Gifts to travel with for Hosts & Guests

Wrapped Guest Soaps are also ideal for travel or to gift to hosts or random people you meet on your expedition. Some customers of our take candles or diffusers for this reason too.  Here's our pick of our customer favourites:

• 1) Fig Diffuser, We have a number of customers that buy this to travel with. They gift to hosts, family and friends. A warm rich fragrance worthy of any smart Parisian home.
• 2) Boxed Soaps, simple and elegant a no fuss practical gift. To be honest we wouldn't have thought of this, the reason it's here is the number of our customers that have told us why they are buying what they are.
• 3) Traditional, this range of soaps is made traditionally with Olive Oil, no colour or 'nasties', and come individually boxed in rustic card. A traditional soap that's thoughtful and understated and is unlikely to be damaged as you travel.
• 4) Novelty These are cute, fun and smile inducing. Small tokens of thanks, we are yet to find anyone who doesn't love them!
• 5) Exfoli-eight We have a number of curated bundles to choose from. Exfoli-eight made out top pick as it contains both classic and contemporary fragrances, includes soaps with natural exfoliating properties (elevating your ordinary gifting soap bar to something a little more unique) and they are also individually wrapped in cellulose fully compostable wrapping. Gift individually or as a set.

Best Solid Shampoo & Shaving Bars for Travel

Our range of solid shampoos and shaving soaps soaps are the perfect accompaniment when it's difficult to travel with liquids. For the shampoo bars we suggest using a beeswax wrapper that you will find in a kitchen shop, to wrap your soap in. Suitable for all hair types is the olive oil and shea butter shampoo bar from Fer a Cheval.

Also, Berthe Guilhem have the juniper and tea tree goat's milk shampoo bar for oily hair, the kaolin goat's milk shampoo bar for normal hair and the lemon verbena goat's milk shampoo bar for dry hair. 

How to Travel with Bars of Soap?

Why risk random soaps in the places you stay when you can take your own with you? If you are looking for a soap case for travelling, look no further than this popular travel tin. This little gem is light weight and includes a removable drainer tray. It's a great buy and has proved really popular since we bought it into our range last autumn. Alternatively pop to your supermarket and buy a beeswax food wrap. 

Travel Soaps for 2024

Wherever you are travelling, whoever you are going with, we are sure we can help you find a minimal selection of products to keep the weight of your bags down and for you to relish and enjoy. 

As ever, we are happy to help so give us a call 01423 803080.