Re: [at-l] Q8 - Keep it Clean

[Tom Caggiano <hikenet@interactive.net>]

At 10:02 PM -0700 7/5/98, mlowell wrote:
>Hey Y'all:
>
>  What's the soap of choice?
>

If you must, something liquid and biodegradable and away from my drinking
water supply.

If you believe in LNT, the soap will kill creatures in nature, especially if
we hikers by a hundred every day for months on end go into the same "wash
area".

But to answer the question,  I use the Dr Bronner's peppermint pure castile.

I use it as tooth paste, mouth freshner, and soap ( face, neck and arms ).
I just add a very few drops to some warm water left over in the bottom of
my fancy cookware ?.
http://members.aol.com/hikenet/ultralightstove.html.  On the visits into
hostel or town, I suggest, take the a shower there as they will have a
waste treatment facility
or spectic system. Do you really want to rid us of our stench - It keeps
away the
robbers and the bears :)

On the trail, I find swimming in a pond or lake, where permitted, without
soap or
cloths gets all the sweat and grim off and a wet rag does the trick.

-Bear Bells


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