Personal hygiene

[swhite]

What should be used instead of soap for washing hands after the toilet, and having a clean at the end of the day (not that I've ever bothered with the latter)?

Tea tree oil?
https://www.coles.com.au/product/thursd ... ml-1313908

After the toilet - Wipe over hands neat and rinse with water while scrubbing?
Wash at the end of the day - dilute and pour over body? Don't drink from the same bottle later.

[north-north-west]

Thanks to a certain virus, there are umpty-dozen hand sanitisers on the market; choose your flavour (they currently have whisky up at Cynthia Bay).
I don't wash at day's end either. Never seen the point. Just keeping the hands clean after toileting is sufficient for me.

[swhite]

But what to do with the (eventually) empty plastic container?

[matagi]

But what to do with the (eventually) empty plastic container?

If you mean the hand sanitiser container, refill and reuse (which is what I do).

My hand hygiene is - wash hands with water, then follow with hand sanitiser.

To clean myself down after a day of bushwalking, I carry a collapsible bowl and a couple of face cloths (being female, I like to use separate cloths for front and back to avoid risk of UTI). I like to warm my water slightly, put it in the bowl add a couple of drops of tea tree oil then dip my cloth in the water and sponge myself down. Tea tree oil comes in 25 ml glass bottles which you can refill and reuse. You might need to replace the lid from time to time.

[swhite]

Thanks, but refill from what? More plastic? Locked into this never ending cycle of plastic
Yeah you could say it's too late, but then you may as well say the same for meat consumption, climate, biodiversity, litter, PFAS, PM2.5, and 6PPD. Welcome to Earth... well it was...

[matagi]

Tea tree oil comes in glass, so you're refilling from glass.

Hand sanitiser, even if you make your own, the base ingredients usually come in plastic. At least if you get a large bottle and refill your smaller one as many times as you can, then you are minimising the use of plastic. Alternatively, you could use a metal spray bottle and just fill it with absolute ethanol from a drum diluted with a bit of water. It will dry your hands out a bit.

[Camminata]

I recently started using wet wipes to give hands and gonads a refresher before pulling into the sleep bag. Sometimes rubbing dry gritty soil to wash your hands is also good , its clean organic natural and works as a sandpaper rinse with water afterwards. I wash my dishes the same way usually with dry grass and dirt. We all have an immune system, having some germs is good no need to go crazy with hand sanitisers IMO

[swhite]

Stop buying wet wipes -
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... h-problems
https://www.climateaction.org/news/uk-w ... t-into-law
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... -wet-wipes