hey there we're nicole and mico we have been traveling for more than a year and today we want
to share with you our favorite travel essentials that we have just come to love since starting to
travel full-time just a quick side note we're not sponsored by any of these items we just love them
and we have all the links down in the description below some of them are affiliate links so if
you do choose to use them thank you so much okay item number one in absolutely no particular order
are matador soap cases yes we have three we have a bunch we absolutely love these the purpose of them
is actually to hold like bar soap and the idea is that it dries your soap out while it's in here so
you can put your soap in wet after you shower and then it dries while it's in here there's no leaks
doesn't get all the other stuff wet we love them because it also really helps to limit the amount
of liquids you need to bring with you because you don't need to bring like body wash you can bring
a bar soap which is also really easy to get around the world and really really cheap the other thing
and why we have three of them is because i use them as well for my solid shampoo and conditioner
i'm running super super low right now this is all that's left right now of my shampoo bar
it's like nothing is there nothing left it just broke in half so you get to see it just smushed
together my favorite brand though is from it's called Ethique i think i'm saying that correctly
it's just phenomenal like my hair absolutely loves it the other reason that i love solid
shampoo and conditioner is because it actually lasts me forever so one bar of each lasts me
about six months and again this also means a reduction of the amount of liquids you need to
bring with you which is fantastic for carry-on so in keeping with the theme of hygiene related
things we got our hygiene kits so i've emptied mine so these are the sea to summit
hygiene kits they're like the ultralight version they're really nice they're super light you can
see this one's it's empty right now it squishes down we just love them because number one they're
super durable yeah and we've thrown them in our backpack squished them and and i've over filled
mine on the regular and somehow the zippers don't burst which is pretty common for Nicole's stuff
they've got a good amount of storage a couple zipper up there zipper down here and then they
got like this big pocket in the middle and it even comes with like a little mirror like yeah
there you guys are and it comes with i think our maybe our favorite feature is this hook
so do not get a hygiene kit without a hook if you're gonna be traveling a lot absolutely need
a hook really need a hook um because putting this on like bathroom counters if you even have them
which is a rarity is usually pretty gross you just don't want to do that you need a place to hang it
so definitely make sure you've got a hook we love the little zippers i put like my makeup up here
and actually in this one as well it's actually got a lot more room than you would expect um and it's
as mico said like really durable i've stuffed this thing to the max they do sell different
sizes though so if you want to up a size which we totally understand there are those as well
okay so fourth item on our list is this guy i know it looks like just a cloth that's kind of
what it is it's called erase your face that's the brand at least this is my makeup remover i
absolutely love this so one of the problems that i had abroad is that i didn't want to be buying
makeup remover all the time like liquid makeup remover again liquid limits it was a big issue
and i don't want to have to be refilling that all the time so i discovered this guy online
literally i just get it wet in the shower and i scrub my makeup off with it it works fantastic
this one's looking a little rugged because i've been using it for like a year and a half straight
it's amazing game changer highly recommend if you're someone who does wear makeup
to get one of these to take it off i love this little guy it's called a hero clip it is awesome
so it looks like a little carabiner right and then you could flip it and transform it like this
into like a hook slash carabiner thingy so this is like a let's say the top of a door
and then it hangs down mico's obsessed with this thing he uses it for everything yeah so
he hangs it here and then obviously you can put whatever you want under here so
even for example like the hygiene kits if we need a place to hang them we can't find anywhere to
hang them you put this on the back of the bathroom door and then hold this down and boom you've got
a place to hang your well i wouldn't have gone that way i would have gone on the inside hook
but close enough just for demonstration for demonstration purposes but yeah like back of the
door hook this sucker on boom honestly you just don't ever find enough hooks any places you're
staying you always need hooks that's a thing for some reason it's really tiny and it fits
in your backpack i just clip it to the outside of my backpack all the time i don't use it like every
single day but when i do use it probably almost every day really nice to have my scarf if you've
seen our packing video you're familiar with my scarf and if you haven't seen our packing video
showing a breakdown of everything that's in our backpacks we will link it down below along with
our full free packing list so i got this just on the road actually in nepal um so what we've
put a link for down below is just something sort of similar that you could buy online
but the reason i love this so much is just because of its versatility like i use it as a blanket on
bus rides i use it as like a scarf when i want to cover my hair if we're in super modest countries
and i just want to blend in a little better i've used it as like a dress like a skirt around me to
cover up to go into temples and i and i do use it as a proper scarf it's just actually kind of rare
like i don't usually need it as a proper scarf but it's big enough to like be really comfy and cozy
and um yeah i don't know i think it's kind of cute i actually i also use it for like a pillow when
i'm on the beach this thing is everything yeah i do absolutely love this so if you are someone who
gets chilly frequently definitely get yourself a little scarf this packs down pretty small and
i can just like shove it in my bag and pull it out whenever i'm real cold it's amazing so the
next item is like a classic travel item that every traveler needs and it's a travel adapter universal
travel adapter really simple it's just a slider on this side they pop out you plug it into the wall
and the great thing of course is it's got a ground here so that's incredibly helpful
because we use our laptops a lot and our laptops have a ground and most of the plugs we use like
on the wall don't have a ground so oftentimes even if our maybe our plug would actually fit
in the wall but there's no ground so yeah have to use this guy anyway this for the laptops
and then these four plugs for like your phone or yeah head like charging our headphones yes
i've got like a e-reader that i use to charge this so yeah that's all we need all right we gotta talk
earbuds we love earbuds because we always have well we're on lots of like long bus rides and
plane rides so we always need earbuds and we don't want anything corded actually our phones don't
even take anything corded anymore no i don't think so um so we actually each have very different
earbuds because i have the world's smallest ears and if that is also you i highly recommend these
they're very small this is sound core is the brand um this guy just lights up and they're right in
there i love them they're epic they have noise cancellation which hears their way as well right
yeah we both have noise cancellation but we're in like different sides of the fence for noise
cancellation i love it not needed so i have the jabra elite active 75t first of all um they're
waterproof so you can like dunk them like right into water like don't drop them into an ocean but
you can dunk them right into water and then they'll be fine and then what i like about them
is the fact that they have physical buttons the physical buttons are super nice these are touch
and they're nowhere near as like intuitive like just they just don't make as much sense as mico's
i really would love to have a button i think like newer things are like moving away from physical
like buttons or like i really like them because then i can pop them on and then like i know when i
push on it and touch it i know it's going to work and then i also know i can like press it with my
shoulder which is actually like all of that i'm like hey honey he's like doing dishes with his
earbuds and he's like oh it's super nice i i think that's you know i think that's underrated and they
also both have transparency mode which you use a ton yeah yeah i don't love it but you really
love it it's just like basically so you could hear things going on around you while you're
still listening to your music or your podcast or whatever it is although you just use my shoulder
someone's talking to me oh okay those are the earbuds now we've got stashers they're basically
a reusable ziploc bag uh so we use them mostly for food these are great for like sandwiches
snacks we fit whatever we want in here you can put other stuff in here though it doesn't need
to be just food um they are safe to go in the dishwasher although we never have dishwashers
and they can actually be like put into boiling like pots if you needed them to
the other thing that i actually use them for is a makeshift homemade heat pack i put like
little pack towels in there we've got little like tiny little towels put them in there put
some boiling water in there and just do them up and they hold that well the seal holds that
well and then i can just use it as a heat pack for when i'm not feeling great so everybody's
heard of hydro flask like i do like the brand they make really nice water bottles what i like about
hydro flask in particular is because we have this type of water bottle it's called the trail series
you don't find them very often I find they are made super light so it's made for the trail
which means like the water bottle is a lot lighter than the regular heavy duty hydro
flash bottles which is why i really like this one the only thing different about my water bottle is
i changed out the lid so it's just a third-party lid that you can buy online like on amazon
i don't like having to take the lid off every time i wanna drink water so i bought this lid um
and then the top just kind of flips open just like that yeah so it still protects the top so it's not
like exposed but then it's much easier to access highly recommend finding a water bottle that works
for you and like if you don't like the lid just don't forget that you have options online to get
third party lids and just pick the one that works best for you uh you get ones with straws or like
other things like that this one just worked great for me okay sleep sack so if you don't
know what these are they're like a it's like a liner um to use in bed and they're just like
the size for one person well at least the ones that we have are for just one person
you actually can buy them for like two people and that's what it looks like it's really just
it's made for kind of like a sleeping bag liner yeah but we use them for any place that we're
using like we're renting for accommodation and we look in the sheets and we're like that looks
pretty gross we pull these out they're really just like a safety a safety item for us um so we sleep
in this they even like cover the whole pillow so you don't really touch any of the sheets and
then of course they're washable so we wash them immediately afterwards this is the sea to summit
brand and we got the silt and silk and cotton combo liner um the traveler's specific kind as
you can see down here you can also get like full cotton or full silk there's lots of options but
we love these this is a good one so that is the end of our list of all the things that we could
not live without traveling full-time and even if you're just headed on a small vacation or like a
weekend trip we highly recommend you check out some of these items they have made our lives so
much simpler thanks so much for watching hope you guys enjoyed the video catch you in the next one