A leather roll or small wooden case fitted with the implements of daily upkeep: a double-sided comb of bone or boxwood (coarse teeth on one side for tangles, fine teeth on the other for nits and dust), a small bristle brush of boar or horsehair in a turned handle, a folding straight razor in a tooled leather sheath with a short strop, a hand-sized polished bronze mirror, a pair of bone tweezers, a horn tongue-scraper, a small pot of beeswax-and-rose pomade, a wrapped cake of scented soap, and a linen hand-towel. The whole rolls tight enough to fit in a belt-pouch or saddlebag. A traveler who keeps his grooming kit in good order is marked as a man (or woman) of station even after weeks on the road; one who lets the bristles go bald and the razor spot with rust is marked as something else.
The kit is the baseline for civilized appearance — the tools needed to look like oneself, clean-shaven or neatly bearded, with combed hair and washed skin. It is distinct from the Disguise Kit (which carries the tools for looking like someone else) and from the Tack & Grooming Kit (which serves horses, not people); a prudent traveler may carry all three when the road is long and the work varied. The soap and pomade are consumed with use and are replaced at any market; the implements are expected to last for years of careful handling, though the razor will want honing on its strop before each shave and stoning once a month.