Traveling with us on our Festival Celebration India Trip? To Greece with us? OR on our Seine and Paris River Cruise? Or other tours in 2025? Here is how to survive inside and out. After flights, you will feel dried out from your head to your toes. Nails might crack. Hair feels dusty. Your face has difficulty smiling. Arms and legs are tight and dehydrated. These effects are worst for senior women. Why? Planes are usually at 20% humidity vs normal of 50% for most other us. Do you need expensive products to counter your dryness? NO.
The dryness on your hands will be the first sign of low cabin humidity. Bring with you hand moisturizer in a tiny container. Remember TSA restrictions on carry on liquids. Lotions with hyaluronic acid, glycerine, or ceramides, which have fatty acids, are the best. Travel size products sold in drugstores are ridiculously overpriced. So re-use a small bottle with an ounce label. CeraVe, Neutrogena, Aveeno are as effective as designer creams. Moisturize your hands once you are seated.
Face: same, you will feel like a prune. Gently pat your face with moisturizer every few hours. Serum will also help your face. Avoid liquid make up as it counts as part of your allowed liquid amount. This allowance includes liquid eyeliner, liquid concealer and creamy products. Vaseline or lip balm are allowed.
Hair: planes make hair feel dirty. Add extra conditioner to your hair ends before you fly. If possible, gently pull hair into a pony tail or soft bun using something gentle like a scrunchy. Or wear a head scarf. The airplane seat back is usually synthetic material; as your hair rubs against it, the material causes static electricity, and splits your hair causing frizziness.
Water and your insides. Drink a lot of water within 24 hours of travel, during and after the flight. Get over the embarrassment of asking a seat mate to stand up. In the lavatory, again moisturize hands after washing. If you use sanitizer, wait some time before using hand moisturizer; the latter will dilute purification. There is a new sanitizer with moisturizer added. The jury is out.
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