CAN Hand Sanitizer be used on FEET.....???

[Sourdough]

Assuming no open wounds.......???

 

[Amish Heart]

I don't see why not. But why? Do you have stinky feet? How about just soaking them in epsom salts

 

[Sourdough]

Just curious.
I am quivering with excitement, next week I get my annual shower. Although it has been 17 months this time.

 

[Amish Heart]

Oh yuck, Sourdough. I'm hoping you at least melted some snow and had a bath in between times.
Hand sanitizer is super drying on the skin.

 

[Caribou]

A guy just down the street was known for putting on a new pair of long johns every year. Not taking the old ones off, just putting another set on. He wound up in the ER where they cut everything off. He died shortly after. It was the general consensus that the cause of his death was the hospital cutting away all his protection.

 

[dademoss]

Just curious.
I am quivering with excitement, next week I get my annual shower. Although it has been 17 months this time.

yes you can. Don't ask

 

[Morgan101]

Just curious.
I am quivering with excitement, next week I get my annual shower. Although it has been 17 months this time.

To answer the question, I agree with Amish Heart. I don't see why not. If it has been 17 months IMHO it's gonna take a whole lot more than hand sanitizer to do the job.

 

[jazzy]

Just curious.
I am quivering with excitement, next week I get my annual shower. Although it has been 17 months this time.

lol--if its been 17 months you might think about using that sanitizer on a couple other areas too.

 

[Katie Müller]

Pro Tip: if you forgot to put on deodorant, hand sanitizer works as a great quick fix for the stinky.

Okay, but in all seriousness, it really does work. The alcohol kills the bacteria that causes the smell. I forgot to put some on and realized it at the doctor's office so once I was alone in the exam room I dashed over to their hand sanitizer put it on my hand, applied it to the under arms, and rushed back to my seat, whistling. What? I've been sitting here the whole time!

Alcohol pads works too, by the way.

Sourdough, use the hand sanitizer and you might be able to skip your bath this time around. No one should be the wiser unless you tell them.

 

[Haertig]

17 months?! I would hate the part where the chair sticks to you every time you stand up.

 

[phideaux]

Just curious.
I am quivering with excitement, next week I get my annual shower. Although it has been 17 months this time.

I just don't understand....it's not Christmas.

Jim

 

[joel]

Any where extremely, No mouth, eyes, no open wounds.
I am a hot water soap man or pure 70% alcohol.

 

[Alaskajohn]

Sourdough, There is only one way to find out for sure. I don't see any issue and I would wipe with a wet towel after applying it.

To the other commenting on showers, this is the first winter that I have been able to take showers at my place since I moved out here. That doesn't mean you can't stay clean. Heat up water on top of the wood stove, put it in a 5 gallon bucket, go outside, naked, and give yourself a bath. Pretty invegerating at -30.

 

[The Lazy L]

Can hand sanitizer be used on FEET?

Sure. You can rub it on your belly too.

 

[joel]

This is what we used by the fire, in water heated on the stove.
We sit Indian style, ankles under your knee's, it was warmer than the front porch.

 

[Amish Heart]

Didn't you order some soap from Amazon, Sourdough?

 

[Weedygarden]

lol--if its been 17 months you might think about using that sanitizer on a couple other areas too.

Thank you! I had the best laugh from your comment!

I was wondering what kind of cooties you think you might have, Sourdough, that you need sanitizer? Sorry, your post has me laughing pretty hard. I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing with you!

I believe I've told the story of the family from my home town who were not bathers. One of the brothers, George, was tearing down a house and fell, and went to the hospital where they promptly gave him a bath. He told them it was the first bath he'd had in over 10 years. I don't know if it was George, but I think it was his brother, Chris, who traded his wife for a cow. I have no idea if that is a true story, or just local legend. And if it was true, I have no idea who she was.

 

[Sourdough]

Didn't you order some soap from Amazon, Sourdough?

Yep, I have ten "jugs" 56 fluid Oz. jugs of this
Amazon.com: Dawn Dish Soap Ultra Dishwashing Liquid, Dish Soap Refill, Original Scent, 56 Fl Oz (Pack of 2) - Packaging May Vary : Health & Household

It is now $15.48 for two jugs, about a year ago it was either $8.99 or $9.88 for the 2-pack. And I must have two cases of other dish soap, mostly Palmolive Antibacterial.

 

[Tirediron]

I spent the first 18 years of my life without running water, the modern world wastes ridicules amount of water. if you don't eat food designed for ruminant stomachs, you won't generate nearly as much body odor, and keeping the clothes that go next to your body clean is pretty necessary. Carry water in and out. clean snow melt water is soft and cleans laundry well you learn not to waste it.
I do really enjoy running water, but if you have to you can live without it.

 

[Tirediron]

And a tip for extending your body soap, foaming pump dispensers can triple the amount of cleaning power per unit of soap,

 

[dademoss]

If you don't have a foaming pump, these are great: MainBasics Bath Shower Loofah Sponge Pouf Body Scrubber Exfoliator (Set of 3)

Wherever you find em, not a recco on the amazon link.

 

[dademoss]

I do really enjoy running water, but if you have to you can live without it.

Long ago it was a "cat bath"

 

[Tirediron]

Long ago it was a "cat bath"

heard it called a few less pleasant names.

 

[Weedygarden]

Long ago it was a "cat bath"

My grandmothers called it a sponge bath.

 

[joel]

We used a salt rock for years. I worked in the hot sun all day. My feet smelled, but no my underarms, salt killed everything.

 

[Grimm]

View attachment 82630 This is what we used by the fire, in water heated on the stove.
We sit Indian style, ankles under your knee's, it was warmer than the front porch.

Yup.

I grew up in a farm house with no running water in Kansas taking baths in one of these. Not ashamed or afraid to do it again. I am actually looking to get a collapsible Japanese soaking tub.

 

[Caribou]

A friend of mine spent all summer out in bush Alaska prospecting. He hit Anchorage with just enough time to get on the next plane south. He desperately wanted to get his boots off. The stewardess caught him sprinkling Listerine on his socks to keep the odor down. He had a date by the time they hit Seattle.

 

[Caribou]

I have a stainless steel bar of soap that cleans the odor of fish and onion from my hands.

 

[joel]

Yup.

I grew up in a farm house with no running water in Kansas taking baths in one of these. Not ashamed or afraid to do it again. I am actually looking to get a collapsible Japanese soaking tub.

 

[elkhound]