Originally Posted by
Cyril
You know, even travel sizes of toiletries can be way more than you need of any one item.
I repackage almost all creams and liquids in eye drop containers.
Just monkey with the top and the whole thing will just pull away from the bottle.
Rinse the bottle well, fill the bottle with a bit of shampoo, sunscreen, hand sanitizer, or whatever , and pop the lid back into place. Hole in the top too small? A hot needle will enlarge it.
Do you mean those little .5 to 1 ounce things? You must only go on
very short tours if you can get by with those for sunscreen and shampoo! They don't seem like they would hold a single application worth of either. We must have bought sunscreen a dozen or more times on our TA (73 days) and on a one week tour one person might go through more than the smallest sized bottle/tube that most stores carry.
I think good way to minimize the load is to limit the number of different products you carry. Some folks use Dr. Bronners for everything including bathing, shampoo, dish soap, laundry soap, and tooth brushing. Similarly I have used camp suds for all of those except tooth brushing. For our upcoming trip we plan to try using baby shampoo for bathing, shampoo, dish soap, and laundry soap. It has the advantage of being available pretty much in any grocery store or mini mart. With two of us using it we will probably need to buy the regular small (7 ounce?) bottle a few times in the course of our spring tour.
My preference is to not have to rely on mail drops for sunscreen and shampoo so the smallest regular sized bottles we find in the stores along the way suffice.