Orbitkey Hanging Toiletry Pouch Review

The folks at Orbitkey are good at organization. After all, these are the people who have brought us key organizers, along with tech pouches and slings that keep things easily accessible on the go. So, what happens when they translate that experience into a toiletry bag? We took the Orbitkey Hanging Toiletry Pouch camping for eight days to find out.

External Components

The Orbitkey Hanging Toiletry Pouch is made with recycled polyester on the exterior. We got the Lilac colorway, which is beautiful and bright—and arrived with a huge stain in the corner from the packaging. So be aware that lighter colorways will show more marks and stains than the darker colorways currently available: Black, Olive, and Terracotta.

If you do manage to get something on the fabric of your toiletry bag, however, don’t worry. It took a bit of effort, but we got ours clean with dish soap and warm water. The stain was right on the zipper, too, so we can attest that the PU coating on the reverse-coil zipper does its job; no water got into the bag as we scrubbed.

The zipper is unbranded but works well, even going around the corners. It’s stiff, but we expect that from zippers with a water-resistant coating like this one, and we never had a problem getting inside or closing it up, though you’ll have to use two hands. There are two zipper pulls with webbing handles, so you can get into the bag at any point along the track.

The zipper heads and the aluminum hook are gold on the Lilac and silver on the other three colorways, as is the Orbitkey logo on the front. It’s small and unobtrusive, even in metallic letters.

The hook tucks into a pocket on the back panel; you simply pull it out to hang up the bag. It doesn’t swivel or have any fancy mechanisms, but it’s large enough to fit over most hooks and towel rods.

It’s also larger than the very shallow carry handle, so we ended up picking the pouch up with the hook more often than with the handle, as even small hands have difficulty with it.

Inside The Pouch

There aren’t any exterior pockets except for the one holding the hook, so it’s time to head inside.

To do so, unzip the toiletry pouch, and you’ll find that it lies or hangs completely flat. That’s helpful because it lets you see and access all your gear. That’s where the hook really comes in handy; if you’re staying somewhere with a hook on the door or next to the sink, like we found in the campground bathroom, you can hang it up and still access your gear. You can also prop the bag up against a wall to sit it on the countertop if you can’t hang it up, though it still has a rather large footprint, especially on our tester’s small camper sink.

The top and bottom halves of the pouch have different styles of organization. We’ll start at the top, where you’ll find a water-resistant open-topped shelf that we used for a razor but also works well for a toothbrush. Basically, it’s a great spot for anything that might be wet that you want to dry without rubbing on anything else.

Below that are two more open pockets where you can stand items up. We used one for makeup palettes and brushes, and the other for Cadence Capsules (V2) and Crystal Deodorant. The pockets have enough depth in both directions to handle bulky gear and keep it standing upright while you travel. However, if you don’t fill them completely, your gear can slide out in transit.

Then, there are two more zippered mesh pockets on the face of those pockets. They open with a single zipper, and they’re rather shallow, but we used them for nail clippers, earplugs, and dental floss. It’s the only spot to lock down tiny gear in the pouch, but you can’t use it for anything super thick, or you won’t be able to zip them shut.

The bottom half of the Hanging Toiletry Pouch is organized differently. It has a U-shaped zipper that opens the top of the compartment, giving you access to the rest of the space. Inside are two large elastic loops to hold bottles and brushes in place. The only issue we have with them is that your bottles can slide around or out if you don’t put enough tension on the elastic. We ended up packing an extra bottle of shampoo we didn’t really need just to fill it out, since we have skinny travel-size bottles. If you don’t mind things jumbling around, you can really use this area as a dump pocket and ignore the elastics, too. We ended up going with a combination of both: filling the elastics with bottles and a baggie full of smaller personal items, and then wedging hairbrushes in the remaining space.

There’s one spot left to fill on the flap that flips open when you unzip the compartment. It’s a long zippered mesh pocket we ended up using for a toothbrush and toothpaste, since it kept them separate from other gear while still letting the bristles dry. No hair from our brush could get through the mesh to our toothbrush, so it didn’t matter that they sat next to each other when we zipped the pocket. The back half of that pocket is water-resistant recycled nylon, while the bottom half of the entire compartment is mesh, so it contained a lot of the moisture from the remainder of the bag while letting it breathe to dry.

Overall, we liked the organizational design and capacity of the Orbitkey Hanging Toiletry Pouch, though it presented some challenges in small bathrooms. Anywhere we were able to hang it, it worked out well. The few times that the hook on the back of the door was already occupied is when we ran into issues, as the large footprint would overhang the edge of the sink. However, many hotel and cruise ship bathrooms—even small ones—have more counter space than you’ll find in an RV, so you can hopefully find a space to open it and get what you need.