smelling fresh

[British Red]

It was a "lightbulb" moment in the shower

Wet flannels get pretty rank after a couple of weeks - but those shower scrunchies don't. My wash kit is in a portable dog's drinking bowl with a tie top. I undo it, heat water in a billy and can wash in a bowl of hot water

 

[11binf]

we were talking about this on the U.S.Bushcraft forum a few days back...if it's just an overnight or two days i just brush my teeth(every day) and wash my hands before a meal...if three days or longer i rub down with a hot wet wash cloth/flannel w/camp suds or unsented soap...i do'nt get to exotic,i start at the head and work down...i heat my water in a canteen cup or billy...that hot soapy washcloth makes me feel like a new man after three days plus in the field... vince g. 11B INF...

 

[jackcbr]

Well recently back from a week canoeing in Canada and I found taking a dip in a glacial lake at over 1,000 metres a very good way to get cleaned up. Even convinced the rest of the group to join me by saying that it didn't feel cold once you got your head under. And they believed me. Also use a diodegradable liquid soap.

 

[Jock]

It was a "lightbulb" moment in the shower

Wet flannels get pretty rank after a couple of weeks - but those shower scrunchies don't. My wash kit is in a portable dog's drinking bowl with a tie top. I undo it, heat water in a billy and can wash in a bowl of hot water

I bought a brown wash scrunchie in Primark last year & used it for ages before discovering that it was some kind of hair bun making device for the ladies. Still use it in my wash bag
What's your soap recipe Red? (if its not a family secret?)

 

[British Red]

I bought a brown wash scrunchie in Primark last year & used it for ages before discovering that it was some kind of hair bun making device for the ladies. Still use it in my wash bag
What's your soap recipe Red? (if its not a family secret?)

No secrets here Jock - I make many types of soap - indeed I like to think my efforts have scrubbed the nether regions of many a hairy bushcrafter

This one works well

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25733

 

[Toddy]

Those things scratch my skin to shreds if I use them often

How on Earth do you get the flannel manky ? It gets washed, rinsed and dried every time it's used.

I have a collapsable webtex bowl. One side is marked and that means one side for the washing up and one side for washing me
Pertex towels and flannels dry off in no time too

cheers,
M

 

[British Red]

Those things scratch my skin to shreds if I use them often

How on Earth do you get the flannel manky ? It gets washed, rinsed and dried every time it's used.

I have a collapsable webtex bowl. One side is marked and that means one side for the washing up and one side for washing me
Pertex towels and flannels dry off in no time too

cheers,
M

Wash, pack, leave. No time to dry a flannel. I guess they are okay in a fixed camp....but if moving around I really like the scrunchies....but I have "man skin"

 

[Toddy]

Each to their own I suppose.

I always find those scrunchies remind me of the grotty sink scourer things that used to sit full of tealeaves and food debris in the kitchen of an office I worked in.

I kind of use the flannels as often as I use my toothbrush so it never gets a chance to go sour.

cheers,
M

 

[treefrog]

+1 on the Webtex bowl for personal admin.
For trips with a limited water supply there are military strength baby wipes. http://www.rvops.co.uk/sage-rinse-free-deodorant-body-wash-wipes-1927.html

 

[_mark_]

I make my own biodegradeable soap with insect repellant herbs and essential oils in. Its good for hair, body and clothes. I find one of those nylon shower scrunchies is great because it doesn't absorb water. Lather it up and have at it with an invigorating scrub. Wingstoo's missus kindly bought me one in olive drab as my existing one didn't match my masculinity apparently

That's really interesting as I don't like to wash with soap especially when using still ponds etc. I normally just use the water and pine needle mulch but I eventually smell like my dog regardless.

 

[Retired Member southey]

You can always carry the water away from the water source chaps.

 

[British Red]

Given I fill my collapsing bowl from a billy can of warm water, thats how I do it.

I work on the basis that everything we drain from our house is returned to the land (we are miles from mains drainage) and so we practice similar disciplines at home as we need to in the woods - use of degradeable cleaning products and using the soil as a soak away and bacterial resevoir. Heck we make most of our cleaning materials - from soap to toilet cleaner. Done properly, they aren't harmful to the environment, quite the reverse in fact.

Red

 

[Joonsy]

how do you keep smelling fresh and clean on a long wild camp out surgestion please:bluThinki

do you not know? washing is a good way.

 

[treetop57]

the idea was to get some intresting surgestions like the ones below not the simple ones

do you not know? washing is a good way.

 

[Retired Member southey]

Then why did you not ask for non standard use full means. If you ask a question you will get answers!

 

[dwardo]

Baby wipes are brilliant when water is hard to come-by. Also helps if you have to buy them in bulk every week anyways.

 

[udamiano]

For weekend then wet wipes serve a purpose, for a week or longer then its a strict routine, of wash and wear, large dixy's can be used to heat water and wash. on mobile camps then a bag bucket to collect water heat using kettle or whatever to hand. liquid soap and flannel. smalls can be boiled washed with either liquid soap or natural saponin soap if your out of the bought stuff. If no readily available source of water then use grey rain water off tarps and such. make sure you dry your feet fully to stop fungal infections, etc