Upstao Yama Leather-Look Flat Toiletry Pouch

A WASH KIT THAT HIDES BESIDE THE LAPTOP

An overnight bag is mostly laptop and one change of clothes, and a boxed wash bag ruins the geometry. Six centimetres of depth, a zip that opens the pouch like a book, and a finish quiet enough for a briefcase — the kit goes down the side and the bag still closes.

• 6 cm deep — slides beside a laptop sleeve where a boxed wash bag will not
• Opens like a book — a full-width zip so both halves lie flat and visible
• Pebbled leather-look PU — wipes clean and hides the marks a smooth finish would show
• Coated lining, bound seams — a leaked bottle stays in the pouch rather than in the bag
• Takes a decanted kit flat — travel bottles, a brush and a razor lying in one plane

Flat-packing and leather-look, for the wash kit that has to disappear into a briefcase or a weekender rather than claim its own block of space.

Flat enough to slide beside a laptop

Depth is what makes a wash bag awkward. This one is 6 cm, so it slides down beside a laptop sleeve or lies across the top of a packed weekender instead of sitting in the middle of it. The shell is a soft leather-look PU with a lightly pebbled grain that wipes clean, over a coated lining with bound seams. It takes decanted bottles, a brush, a razor and the small things lying flat, and the single long zip runs the full width so the pouch opens like a book rather than a mouth.

What you get

• 6 cm deep — slides beside a laptop sleeve where a boxed wash bag will not
• Opens like a book — a full-width zip so both halves lie flat and visible
• Pebbled leather-look PU — wipes clean and hides the marks a smooth finish would show
• Coated lining, bound seams — a leaked bottle stays in the pouch rather than in the bag
• Takes a decanted kit flat — travel bottles, a brush and a razor lying in one plane
• Quiet enough for a briefcase — no webbing, no logo, no colour that announces itself

Specifications

Questions about the toiletry pouch

Will full-size bottles fit?
Lying down, up to about 5 cm diameter. Standing, no — this is the flat pouch, built to slide into a bag rather than to hold a shelf. For full-size bottles upright, the deep U-zip pouch is the right one.

Is PU going to peel?
Pebbled PU over a woven backing resists peeling far better than the smooth kind, which delaminates at fold lines. Keep it out of prolonged heat — a car dashboard in summer is what kills any PU.

Does it work as an overnight kit?
That is exactly its trip. A night or two of decanted bottles and the essentials, in a pouch flat enough that the weekender still closes. For a week with full bottles, size up.