Train Travel Hygiene Tips

The dirty, disheveled traveler look is something that we all accept as the necessary outcome of covering long distances on a train. It is quite expected that one will step off the train with dirty and crumpled clothes, a foul taste in the mouth and all the pores in your face clogged from miles and miles of dirt and dust that has accumulated on the skin!

Not anymore! With just a little preparation, you can ensure that you do not step off the train looking like the rest of your fellow travelers. Train travel does not give us the freedom to stop along the way and experience the necessary creature comforts of cleanliness.

Staying fresh will give you more energy, help you stay alert and avoid any health-related issues. It isn’t difficult, just follow these invaluable train travel tips to freshen up along the way. Of course, it does help to carry along your hand sanitizer!

Preparing a Train Travel Kit

There are a number of ways you can minimize the amount of stuff you need to carry in your toiletries bag.

1. Use plastic straws: Plastic drinking straws can be filled with little amounts of skincare items such as cold cream, sun protection cream, talcum powder and moisturizer. Just squeeze it into a cut length of straw and tape the ends up. Remember to label the straws so that you do not end up using your cold cream instead of toothpaste.
2. Use a spectacle case: You can pack a small little kit in an unused spectacle case, comprising of things such as nail clippers, eyeliner pencil, a nail file and a bottle of nail enamel quite easily and have yourself a handy manicure kit in your hand bag.
3. Shaving razors: These can be kept from cutting up your toiletries bag from the inside by putting a paper clip/clamp around it.
4. Toothpaste: Those small toothpaste tubes that are given out by hotels for travelers can be refilled. Just hold the nozzle to the nozzle of your larger toothpaste tube and carefully transfer some toothpaste into the smaller tube. Alternatively, you can also use an old eye drops container to carry a little toothpaste.
5. Hygiene: Carry a small bottle of hand sanitizer for times when washing with water is not an option. An alcohol-based sanitizer will keep you protected from more than 100 disease causing germs. For a good measure, add some Multi-Use Wipes as well because it is advisable not to use the sanitizer on the face.
6. Anti-Spill Kit: To prevent a mess from accidental spillage in the rough and tumble of travel, you can simply put a bit of plastic food wrap over the mouth of your shampoo and handwash bottles before closing them to make an effective spill-proof seal. If you can't get your hands on any plastic cling film, use a short length of tape.