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Gift Guide 2007
‘Tis the Season
The Small Stuff

By Nathan Borchelt, Erika Hunter Lloyd & Karen Chen

The Photographer | The Smart Dresser | The Wired Traveler | The Family Traveler | The Eco-Savvy Traveler | The Luggage | The Small Stuff

Anthonys Logistics and Eagle Creek small bottle set
Anthonys Logistics and Eagle Creek small bottle set

Impulsiveness in travel is grand, unless you lose precious time packing for that last-minute weekend escape. To avoid the mad medicine-cabinet scramble, pick up the Grab+Go Kit from Anthony's Logistics. This award-winning skincare company has packaged everything the modern male needs: two-once bottles of facial cleanser, facial scrub, shaving cream, astringent, coconut-scented shampoo, and cleansing gel. They even give you a quart-sized zip lock that's now become a travel staple (and a TSA requirement). Just slip in your toothpaste, and all liquids are set—and perfectly acceptable to airport security. ($35; www.anthony.com)

If you’re looking for the right gift for that all natural gal in your life, Eden Naturoils offers a compact travel kit with tiny versions of their luscious soaps and creams. All of the products created by Eden Naturoils are handmade from pure virgin olive oil extracted from olive trees in Galilee, Israel. The travel kit comes with rose, lavender, and natural scented handmade soaps, lavender hand cream, eucalyptus body cream, and a shower pouf.($15.50; www.edennaturoils.com)

For those in love with their own alchemic mixture of different health and beauty products, save yourself the security-line shuffle by acquiring Eagle Creek's Pack-It Liquid/Gel Set. The set includes four empty three-ounce bottles that you can fill with your favorite hair and skin products, sized to clear through the security line every time. The clear thermo polyurethane zip-top pouch prevents leaks and displays the bottles clearly for nitpicky guards. ($15; www.eaglecreek.com)

The Adventure Towel
The Adventure Towel

And let's not forget the bane of packing a towel in your luggage: it eats up half the space in your luggage and then doesn't fully dry before you need to repack it, resulting in that moldy stench that permeates everything. The solution? Aquis Adventure Towels. Made of a unique microfiber, these 19-inch-by-39-inch best-in-class towels soak up moisture five times faster than regular towels, and, unlike their ilk, feel more like normal towels because of their small, looped microfiber threads. And since they're surprisingly thin, they fold down so small you can throw it in as an afterthought rather than parcel out half your packing space for it. Another small, but thoughtful feature: Each towel comes with a handy loop snap to attach it to the outside of packs for easy drying. It won't sub for a full-on beach towel, but then that's what the hotel towels are for. ($29; www.aquis.com)




The Photographer | The Smart Dresser | The Wired Traveler | The Family Traveler | The Eco-Savvy Traveler | The Luggage | The Small Stuff



Nathan Borchelt is the lead editor for Away.com