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PERSONAL HYGIENE
Using a bucket to wash is an effective way to
reduce water usage, as is ensuring you turn off
your water during the wetting/washing/rinsing
cycle of a shower. Both ways are more than
enough to wash the smelly parts of your body
without wasting unnecessary water.
Hair washing only occurs once or twice a week.
Being a hairdresser, I know this practice is actually
good for our scalps (over-washing promotes
higher oil levels on your scalp and can stress hair).
To get more ‘wear’ in between washes, the boys
wear hats and I use dry shampoo and different
styles to keep dirty hair away from our faces.
(If you don’t want to spend on dry shampoo, talc
powder does the same thing – absorbing oils
from the scalp).
For our teeth we fill a cup, which all five of us use
for wetting, brushing and rinsing.
HANDS, FEET AND FACES
For daily cleaning of hands, feet and faces, we
have a box of cheap baby wipes as back-up. At
other times, we have some water in a bucket that
we all wash our dirty feet in before retiring to the
van at night.
Baby wipes double as great interior cleaning aids
for walls and floors. Alternatively, we’ve found
a mircrofibre towel and slightly soapy water in a
spray bottle cleans well!
WASHING THE DISHES
Our dishwashing practice is to fill no more than
half the sink. All dishes for that meal are done
with the one lot of water before it is drained.
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