An article about keeping clean with a bowl of water in a helmet

[Nelda]

In my internet wanderings I pinned an article I found interesting about&nbsp; Keeping clean with no running water.<br>http://www.motherearthnews.com/Nature-Community/1981-03-01/Keep-Clean-Without-Running-Water.aspx<br><br>Nelda

 

[Kisatchieman]

Good article. Cutting your hair as short as possible would greatly reduce the hassle of hair washing and further cut down on the amount of water needed.<br>Do I hear "Hair" by the Cowsills playing in the background?<IMG border=0 align=absMiddle src="https://vanlivingforum.com/images/boards/smilies/biggrin.gif"><br>

 

[Khyron]

Great article. &nbsp;Thanks for the link!

 

[Guest]

I like it Nelda.....this is exactly what KatieTwoKnives taught me to do....she said that was what she and her women friends did. I have used the method for weeks on end.<br /><br />I use Dr. Bronners castile for everything including this....<br /><br />Good point on the short hair Starman.....way, way, way easier....<br /><br />Bri

 

[WanderingRain]

I've been keeping clean using a bucket and a small cup for a long while now. It's a very basic low tech solution and it doesn't even need pipes or plumbing. I bathe in a large Rubbermaid tub and empty it out afterwards.&nbsp;<br /><br />I recently got to watch a house and use the shower inside. A friend said it must have been nice to get a shower for once. I said I don't mind the convenience of it, but really, I am so used to my bucket and cup by now that it doesn't really matter to me. I mean, it's not important whether it comes out of a shower head or out of a big gulp cup that I tip over my head to bathe. The basic goal is met -- cleanliness. I don't see my bucket method as being "primitive" even. It's just another way of bathing. This is part of my ever progressing training where I remove judgments of this kind on most things. A bath is a bath, whether coming from a shower head or a cup of water over your head.&nbsp;<img src="/images/boards/smilies/smile.gif" alt="" align="absmiddle" border="0" />&nbsp; <br /><br />It's only society that trains us to think in this way --that some things are proper and other things are not. Only kids play in the rain... BS. You're not allowed to act silly when you are older. Why? Since I was a young sapling, I figured out a lot of adults are full of these kinds of BS made up rules. And I spend my youth battling societal rules of this kind.&nbsp;<br /><br />And this idea that one is not civilized if they bathe in another method that does not include having water sprayed from on high by a mechanical device is certainly one of them. There's dozens of ways to take a bath and as long as they reach the same goal, who is to say what is or isn't the 'proper' way to bathe right?<img src="/images/boards/smilies/tongue.gif" alt="" align="absmiddle" border="0" />

 

[Unchained]

There's dozens of ways to take a bath and as long as they reach the same goal, who is to say what is or isn't the 'proper' way to bathe right?<img src="/images/boards/smilies/tongue.gif" alt="" align="absmiddle" border="0" />

Right! The Faires I used to work were often very dusty and at the end of the day, everyone was just <em>covered</em> in grime. While most of the workers stood in line at the showers, hoping for hot water, I would remove 3 gallon jugs that had been heating in the cab of my truck all day, drape a sheet over the open back of my camper shell, and have a LONG hot super scrub and hair wash. No lines and no one banging on the door telling me to 'hurry up, already!' <img src="/images/boards/smilies/biggrin.gif" alt="" align="absmiddle" border="0" />

 

[Willy]

&nbsp;What works for me is a Garrett Super Sluice 15" gold pan. It also serves as, IMHO, the absolute BEST gold pan out there, so it can serve to make a few bux. ..Willy.

 

[Rollin]

Very&nbsp;informative&nbsp;article! I never knew that about baking soda. I have been debating on what type of soap would work best.&nbsp;&nbsp;Even cleans your teeth.<br /><br />http://www.naturalnews.com/021618.html