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Most of what we see nowadays are the "plastic" solar showers, you might get lucky and find an old military canvas shower or old OzTrail one onlin or at an Army Navy Surplus. I did find one online in Australia but don't know how old the site listing is or if they even ship outside of their country.
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Canvas is easy,,
It's the supporting frame that's the PITA.
Never had faith in the "solar" bags,, I'd rather just boil water and add cold to it to get enough "tepid" water to get're done.
Warm water in a wash basin, large bowl or bucket, soap and a wash cloth along with privacy in the tent for awhile and your in.
Honest, you can buy 60" canvas anywhere, but it's the 24-36" square frame that will hold the canvas and some kind of platform to keep you off the ground that will turn to mud when wet that's the key, and that key is difficult to transport and set up.
It's the supporting frame that's the PITA.
Never had faith in the "solar" bags,, I'd rather just boil water and add cold to it to get enough "tepid" water to get're done.
Warm water in a wash basin, large bowl or bucket, soap and a wash cloth along with privacy in the tent for awhile and your in.
Honest, you can buy 60" canvas anywhere, but it's the 24-36" square frame that will hold the canvas and some kind of platform to keep you off the ground that will turn to mud when wet that's the key, and that key is difficult to transport and set up.
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Panther Primitive has a stand alone shower near the end of the tent section.
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Basicly all you need is some canvas to hang from some poles, and a wooden grate to stand on so your not in the mud, and a shelf for you water,soap etc. Here ( I hope ) is a photo of one I made from some horse shoes , some square steel stock and some oak for the grate and shelf. This photo is from the Eastern.
It's getting wet,
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IF you want to be HC/PC, you wouldn't bathe at all. = During the Colonial era, the AWI and at least through TWBTS, many soldiers & civilians did NOT bathe or even change underclothes at all for YEARS & "washing all over" was considered "dangerous and unhealthy".
(That is ONE reason that so many women could "pass" as young boys & serve for years as soldiers & sailors.)
A "tub bath on Saturday night" was commonplace even when in my mother's girlhood in the early 1920s, so that a person was "clean for church".
(On the other 6 days of the week, washing one's hands & face was considered adequate & acceptable for "the common folks".)
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(That is ONE reason that so many women could "pass" as young boys & serve for years as soldiers & sailors.)
A "tub bath on Saturday night" was commonplace even when in my mother's girlhood in the early 1920s, so that a person was "clean for church".
(On the other 6 days of the week, washing one's hands & face was considered adequate & acceptable for "the common folks".)
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I channel George Carlin... "Armpit, a$$#07e, face and hands." I include neck and groinage on the shortlist, play on words intended. Maybe even a foot once in a rare while.
Wet Wipes are your friend. But I HATE having disgusting, greasy, hair -- really ruins my day especially if it's on the long side. Solution? No-rinse shampoo, play on words also intended!
They sell it at most chain pharmacies for people who are having problems where they can't shower, might even be bedridden in hospital, and you can get it over internet too. You "wash" your hair with it and then just (paper)towel it dry. Makes a big difference. Course a little soap and water works well enough but you may not have a well's worth of water at any given moment, hence the Wet Wipes for other stuff. Oh...
...and Q-Tips. Gotta have one a day, like my multivitamins and minerals.
PS: remember reading a story about some comrades finding a Union soldier at one of the evil Confedrate prison camps. Catton? Anyway, they took him to a river and gave him his first bath in a couple of years and what they all first thought was his skin coming off was the first undershirt he had on that he'd thought he'd lost!!!
Wet Wipes are your friend. But I HATE having disgusting, greasy, hair -- really ruins my day especially if it's on the long side. Solution? No-rinse shampoo, play on words also intended!
They sell it at most chain pharmacies for people who are having problems where they can't shower, might even be bedridden in hospital, and you can get it over internet too. You "wash" your hair with it and then just (paper)towel it dry. Makes a big difference. Course a little soap and water works well enough but you may not have a well's worth of water at any given moment, hence the Wet Wipes for other stuff. Oh...
...and Q-Tips. Gotta have one a day, like my multivitamins and minerals.
PS: remember reading a story about some comrades finding a Union soldier at one of the evil Confedrate prison camps. Catton? Anyway, they took him to a river and gave him his first bath in a couple of years and what they all first thought was his skin coming off was the first undershirt he had on that he'd thought he'd lost!!!
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Whoee!!! It's a wonder there were any children conceived in those days. All procreation must have been done outside on windy days. :haha:
Getting in tubs of water was uncommon, however sponge baths were used.Lots of work in towns every where and every army and post was laundry women.Folks dont seem to be as dirty as common myth suggest, but sponge baths is the hc method.Corn meal can be rubbed in to hair then brushed out leaving it 'clean and silky'
Soap is on all the army supply list and manifest of warships. Soap was listed in the supplies brought to rendezvous.And complaints of people stinking was an insult likly to buy one a foot of steel or an ounce of lead.
Soap is on all the army supply list and manifest of warships. Soap was listed in the supplies brought to rendezvous.And complaints of people stinking was an insult likly to buy one a foot of steel or an ounce of lead.
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Your parents tell you that too!? What is this, 1001 (Made Up) Uses For Grits! Sure ain't for human consumption. Although at that point guess you could fry it up without adding any more grease...
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PS: Who's fitting in that "shower"?
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Taking a "bath" by submerging the body in warm water was what was not regularly done.
They washed their bodies, water and a rag..., probably without soap, for "soft soap" was the most common and was thought to be for clothing... and they probably didn't "wash" themselves every day, ... add to that the lack of deodorant and disinfectants... but they did clean their bodies, and they did change their underclothes.
The first bathtub in Williamsburg VA was installed in 1796.
George Washington during the AWI wrote to one of this commanders:
"...you will take every measure for refreshing your Men and rendering them as comfortable as you can. Bathing themselves moderately and washing their Cloathes are of infinite Service."
One of the scholars in Williamsburg, tutor to Mason and Jefferson, took a cold "shower" almost daily, except in winter. It was more of an "overhead, cold water rinse", ...
So... if we simply rinsed ourselves every third day or so, washing hands and face daily, all with cold water, perhaps not washing in winter, and omitted the use of soap and deodorant, we'd stink, but would be not nearly as filthy as not washing, and wearing the same clothing, unchanged, for a year...
In fact the sweat will rot that clothing off a person in a few months of outdoor labor... so they had to be changing clothing, and at least washing the stuff every few days.
(Baby wipes work, so does a sponge and a very small, inflatable, kiddie pool to catch the water in the tent and not soak the ground. )
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Taking a "bath" by submerging the body in warm water was what was not regularly done.
They washed their bodies, water and a rag..., probably without soap, for "soft soap" was the most common and was thought to be for clothing... and they probably didn't "wash" themselves every day, ... add to that the lack of deodorant and disinfectants... but they did clean their bodies, and they did change their underclothes.
The first bathtub in Williamsburg VA was installed in 1796.
George Washington during the AWI wrote to one of this commanders:
"...you will take every measure for refreshing your Men and rendering them as comfortable as you can. Bathing themselves moderately and washing their Cloathes are of infinite Service."
One of the scholars in Williamsburg, tutor to Mason and Jefferson, took a cold "shower" almost daily, except in winter. It was more of an "overhead, cold water rinse", ...
So... if we simply rinsed ourselves every third day or so, washing hands and face daily, all with cold water, perhaps not washing in winter, and omitted the use of soap and deodorant, we'd stink, but would be not nearly as filthy as not washing, and wearing the same clothing, unchanged, for a year...
In fact the sweat will rot that clothing off a person in a few months of outdoor labor... so they had to be changing clothing, and at least washing the stuff every few days.
(Baby wipes work, so does a sponge and a very small, inflatable, kiddie pool to catch the water in the tent and not soak the ground. )
LD
One time at Friendship some of the guys on the primitive side went canoeing in the creek. They turned over. They were banned from the primitive camp and all acitivities because, technically, they had taken a bath.
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" Taking a "bath" by submerging the body in warm water was what was not regularly done."
And it is not done at my house to this day. I can't stand the thought of washing my face in the same water that I have been soaking my butt in. :shake: It just don't seem right to me. :haha: Just gimme a shower. :hatsoff:
And it is not done at my house to this day. I can't stand the thought of washing my face in the same water that I have been soaking my butt in. :shake: It just don't seem right to me. :haha: Just gimme a shower. :hatsoff:
