Backpacking Wash Kit

The smallest, comprehensive wash kit I could create.

Backpacking wash kit

Contents – backpacking wash kit

  • Small Lifeventure travel towel
  • 30ml bio-degradable multi-use concentrated liquid soap – for a shower or for the washing up, check out the specs.
  • Travel toothbrush – less the case
  • 10ml liquid toothpaste – the bottle was a giveaway sample
  • Comb
  • Fold up travel mirror – from a Christmas cracker
  • Bandana
  • Small container of Sudocrem – not just for nappy rash.
  • Two Christmas cracker pegs
  • A few safety pins

Nearly everything packs into the Lifeventure towel pouch. There is a technique for getting dry with a small towel and a bandana – it just takes practice.

Extras – if in company or heading to a hotel or time-share.

  • Travel sized deodorant
  • Flannel

One of the most useful things in this kit is the multi-purpose soap from Lifeventure. The liquid soap is bio-degradable and can be used for personal washing and showering, cleaning clothes and dishes and even cleaning fruit and vegetables. It is concentrated so a little goes a long way – I have filled a hotel shower gel bottle above with the soap – I can get two or three showers from this amount. I also carry a small bottle of this soap in my cooking kit.

I use liquid toothpaste which I carry in a small bottle that was given away many years ago with a travel toothbrush – I have refilled it dozens of times. However it is easy now to buy travel sized bottles and tubes of all the items needed for a lightweight wash kit.