When you are out on the trail, camping in the wild or a survival situation, staying clean is always a challenge.

Someone once wrote the “cleanliness was next to Godliness,” but if they were talking about roughing it – by choice or necessity – they might have added in parentheses “and next to impossible.”

Or at least, impossible if you do not prepare ahead of heading out and have a personal hygiene kit in your bug out bag or survival kit.

While it is well known that clean people feel better, there are also health reasons for staying clean in the wild as well.

Exposure to bacteria, viruses and some poisons in the wild can make your life miserable and in extreme cases, lead to serious illness. Keeping clean is the only way to combat many of them.

To see what you need to keep yourself clean on the trail, watch the video on the next page.

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