Orbitkey 2-in-1 Toiletry Pouch Review

You don’t always need the same size toiletry bag for every trip. Sometimes you want to bring half the bathroom along, while other times you can get away with just a few items. Most Dopp kits are the same size no matter what trip you’re taking, but not the Orbitkey 2-in-1 Toiletry Pouch. It’s a large toiletry bag with a smaller one inside, which can be used on its own or in conjunction with the big kit. How well does it work in practice? We’ve been using it daily and on a short weekend getaway to find out.

External Components

The Orbitkey 2-in-1 Toiletry Pouch has a design similar to the Orbitkey 2-in-1 Tech Pouch (so similar, in fact, that the description for both products is the same on Orbitkey’s site!). Basically, you get two bags for a price similar to that of one Orbitkey Hanging Toiletry Pouch (the 2-in-1 is $10 more at the time of this review). It has a similar footprint; it’s just about an inch larger than the hanging toiletry pouch, and it includes similar materials and hardware.

The 2-in-1 has a recycled polyester exterior. It’s hand-washable with soap and water, though it will show bathroom stains. The zippers have a PU coating to prevent water from getting in or escaping the pouch. They slide easily and work well, with webbing loops for handles to help you open and close them.

The Orbitkey brand name is on the front of each bag in metallic letters. It’s silver on the Olive, Black, and Terracotta colorways, and gold on the Lilac.

Each pouch has a different way of holding it. The larger one has a very shallow carry handle. You can squeeze your hand underneath, but it’s a tight fit with the bag fully packed. The smaller kit has a metal hook to hang it on a rod or hook in the bathroom. It doesn’t swivel, but we had no issues getting it on a variety of rods and hooks in our bathroom.

Inside The Toiletry Pouch

Inside, things get a little more nuanced. Both interiors are made with recycled nylon. It’s water-resistant and easy to wipe clean. There are also a variety of mesh pockets and elastics to hold bottles and containers.

We’ll start with the larger pouch. Against the back panel are two large mesh pockets that encompass the top half of the bag. They’re rather shallow, so they work best for small grooming tools like dental floss or nail clippers. That’s by design, as, spoiler alert, this is where the small pouch inserts when you use the bags together. When the smaller pouch is inside, those pockets are blocked and unusable, so it makes sense that they’re small.

On its own, though, there’s a lot of space in front of these pockets to fill with larger bottles, brushes, and whatever gear you want to toss inside. There’s nothing to keep things standing up or from jostling around if you use it on its own; it’s just open space between the pockets on the back panel and the center zippered divider pocket.

That pocket is good for locking down other gear you don’t want floating around, from makeup brushes and palettes to combs. It’s got a water-resistant coating inside, but it’s not very thick, so you can pack it with smaller travel bottles of liquids, but nothing too thick.

Against the front panel are two more large mesh pockets. They’re similar to the ones on the back panel, in that they can’t really accommodate bulkier items, but they’re not divided evenly in half like the ones on the back; instead, one pocket takes up two-thirds of the bag’s width while the other encompasses the remaining third.

Below those are two wide pieces of elastic to hold gear that won’t fit nicely anywhere else. They keep bottles and cases standing upright instead of falling on top of one another as they do behind the divider panel.

The small pouch has more organization. In a design reminiscent of the tech pouch, the front flap can fold down to display a skinny zippered mesh pocket. You might also want to fold it down when you put the small pouch inside the larger one, so you can see everything else in the small pouch without having to pull it open. However, leaving that flap folded down makes the pocket unusable and presses into the center divider pocket, so we ended up leaving it up instead.

Below the zippered pocket on the front of the small pouch are three nylon slip pockets for small bottles. We found them pretty difficult to use, as they bend toward the bottom to follow the shape of the bag, but they’re there if you have small, flat items, like eye shadow or lip balm.

The center of this pouch has two sections dividing the space. We found it easier to stand bottles here, though you can’t stow anything super tall. Even our 3 oz sunscreen was too tall, so you’ll have to play around with your gear to find where it fits.

Finally, there’s an open shelf-like pocket against the back for a razor or toothbrush. Since this pouch loses a bit of space on every side to fit into the other bag, we found it slightly too small to use with a full-size toothbrush. We put that in the skinny mesh pocket and tucked a razor here instead, though a travel-size toothbrush fits fine.

All in all, while you can ostensibly use the Orbitkey 2-in-1 Toiletry Pouch together, with the smaller pouch adding organization to the larger one, we think they’re better used separately. Bring the smaller one in your personal item on the plane to freshen up midway through a long-haul flight, and pack the larger one in your checked bag or larger carry-on luggage. Or use the smaller one for short weekend trips, breaking out the larger one for 1-2 week adventures. We used them together on a weekend getaway and discovered that you end up losing more usable space by placing the smaller pouch inside the big one, though we preferred its organization (specifically the pockets for a toothbrush and razor). But if you often wish you could have different toiletry bags for different trips, or you’re part of a couple where one person brings less and the other brings more, it might be right for you.