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How does one keep clean and smelling fresh in the outdoors? To take care of yourself
as far as keeping clean and odor free in the wilderness, there's some traditional methods
that work really, really well. In fact, some of the traditional methods are now being used
by clothing companies that want to create odor free clothes.
One of the ways, and a great natural deodorant, is this stuff. Charcoal. So if you go to Cabela's
or a Bass Pro shop, any of the hunting stores, you'll see lots of clothes that have, now,
charcoal in them, that are odor free clothes. Scent lock and things like that. Really all
they are is clothes that have charcoal in them. Charcoal absorbs odor. So if you want
to have a natural deodorant that works really well, and charcoal actually has many, many
benefits. It kind of makes you look dirty but it makes you smell good. This will absorb
all your scent. hunters will use charcoal if they want to not leave scent for animals.
So, charcoal is really good. The other thing that works really good is what makes charcoal,
and that's smoke. So standing in a fire with your clothes, the smoke will clean your clothes
and leave them odor free.
Ways to wash your body. What makes you smell is bacteria and one of the plants that grow
out here is this sphagnum moss. Sphagnum moss has an anti-bacterial quality and you can
wipe down with sphagnum moss. It's great for cleaning all nooks and crannies that might
normally smell a little bit odoriferous. Not only is it an antibacterial, but it also has
water, which is something you want to clean yourself. So you can use this, it's like a
sponge, it has water in it, it kills bacteria, it's great for washing
and this is a really nice resource to have. It grows all over kind of rocky tops here
in New York.
So you have two things that make you really clean. You have charcoal which takes away
odor, you have this that kills bacteria and has a nice, sponge-like quality. You have
smoke from a fire. Some of the other ways would be to build a sweat lodge if you want
to have like a sauna you can also clean in that and last but not least, there's the bandana
or t shirt that you can dip into water, get nice and wet and wipe down with that. If you
were going to wipe down with this and you wanted to add deodorant, charcoal is a great
way to go after that. So, those are some ways that you can keep clean and odor free in the
outdoors.