Sanitation – Personal Care Bathing: (We discussed soap inventory needs in soap section) In the event you had limited water for bathing, your choices for cleaning up would be:1 – Shallow baths in your tub if you could use it (no broken pipes) and didn’t want to keep the water. 2 – Bath in extra large round tub near heat source. (Do you have something you can use for this if need be?) 3 – Chilly dips in outside water 4 – Camp shower bags (pre bought) hung (either in existing tub or in an out doors area) water is heated by the sun. You would probably need several for a family. 5 – There are clever ways to make showers out of 5 gallon buckets with spigots or holes that are placed on a ladder or high shelf, filled with warm water, you stand underneath, and shower quick 6 – Sponge bathShampooEach family member needs as an average minimum, one gallon of shampoo per year. That would be enough to wash your hair about once a week, depending... Read the rest of this entry »
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Sanitation/ Personal Hygiene
On October - 28 - 2008