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Three Travel Tips: Doing Laundry on the Road

I skip the detergent and just use shampoo or soap - it usually smells better too!

Unless your a Latin woman, you’re never going to get your clothes as clean as a machine. I use a 4-1 or 3-1 ratio of hand-washing to machine washing.

Please, do NOT carry liquid detergent. Packing liquid things just means they’re going to spill in your backpack. No care will be given to your pack when it’s chucked under a bus.

Check out the Health and Hygiene section of this article, for all the answers: http://travelvice.com/archive/2007/04/latin-america-backpack-equipment.php

...oh, and powered detergents are very, very inexpensive, and formulated to work in cold water—as your clothes will NEVER be washed in anything but.

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An ultralight backpackers tip :  Switch to a Castille Type Soap.

Castille Soap is mankind’s oldest chemistry, discovered when animal fat dripped onto wood ash.  Modern Castille is nothing but saponified vegetable oil with added potassium or sodium (one makes liquid, the other makes solid).  It’s actually edible.

Unless you’ve tried Castille, probably everything you have ever used contained Sodium Laureth Sulfate, discovered in WWII as an oil spill dispersant.  It’s terrible for you, your hair, and has that soapy taste.

Since Castille Soap is fully natural it can be used for clothing, shampoo, bathing—even brushing your teeth !!!  It doesn’t even taste soapy (that’s Laurel Sulfate).  Most people can even do without conditioners for the hair.

Three ounces is so concentrated it would fill every need for a traveler for WELL over a month.  If you don’t like traveling with liquids, you can find it in bars.  Try it, you’ll like it !!