The 67 Travel Beauty Essentials You Need This Summer

Introducing ELLE’s 2025 First Class Beauty Awards.

Acting has never truly been in the cards for me, but the warmer months are when I adopt new characters. Just as an actor needs a script, my summer personas require a few key tools, formulas, and rituals to fully embrace the season.

Let me introduce my summer cast: There’s the main character who loves a glimmering complexion, and is armed with glow-inducing oils, bronzing foams, and texture-smoothing scrubs. The glass-skin obsessive who has sunscreen in every handbag, never appears anything less than well-rested, and who treats masking like a sacred ritual. And of course, the type-A overpacker who values function as much as flexibility—because every star needs an easy-switch hair styler to transform into a bevy of looks, right?

Whatever role you’re stepping into, we’ve got your glam covered. These ELLE-approved essentials highlight the year’s most impressive new travel-friendly beauty products, blending luxury and practicality with every swipe, spritz, and slather. Before your next out-of-office alert kicks off, bookmark this page. This is your official beauty packing list.

Tronque’s body oil is what happens when you add the power of your favorite vitamin C serums to a dry oil formula that swirls with lipids, rosemary leaf, and avocado oil, to deeply hydrate and improve the overall appearance of the skin. It has a subtle sheen and citrus scent, too.

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