While traveling recently, I found myself very jet lagged and desperate for a bit of daily ritual in an otherwise harried day. The skin of my face was encrusted with that weird sensation of being both jet-dry and ick-oily all at the same time. My essential cleansing lotion was buried too deep within my luggage to retrieve it, and my resolve was wearing thin. Dismayed by the hotel issued bar of peachy grey soap stamped with a pineapple, and knowing full well that this traditional symbol of hospitality does not imply ingredients related to actual pineapple (ironic because those natural enzymes are exactly what my skin needed!), I grasped for something to lift the moment out of the ordinary. My travel-size bottles of LTB's apricot pure therapy and rosehip seed pure therapy were within reach, as they are tiny enough to carry on without worry of creating a scene at flight security screening.
Armed with these two vials of precious and powerful serums, and remembering that japanese beauty rituals often include a oil-based pre-cleanser, I felt emboldened and all that much closer to some restful shut-eye. I used the rosehip seed pure therapy as a first step (no rinsing), melting away the top layer of ick-oily and whatever was left of my mascara. (Yes, I wear some makeup when traveling because a bottle-of-water-and-warm-wrap-super-model, I am not). As it turned out, the poseur pineapple soap had met it's match! My skin was prepared for the second step - an onslaught of drying lather that might have otherwise hurt. Once clean, my skin happily soaked in the last step: a few "grounding" drops of apricot pure therapy. My daily ritual satisfied with an element of surprise, I slept.
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