Originally Posted by
AdamDZ
Thanks for the links, I'll try these.
Stedalus, thanks for the tip on wet wipes, I was actually wondering about that.
Adding water to wet wipes
can work but it's easy to overload them and wash all the soap out. The foaming cloths also have more soap in them. I use them in showers so that I don't have to carry around a messy bar of soap or use liquid soap (mostly water)
Originally Posted by
dogontour
I have had the same package of wet wipes for about 2 years now (opened the day I bought it) and it was the same package I took to UT with me last fall. They are still moist. Not as moist as at first but not dry yet...I think a week in the desert is not a problem. I think it would last quite a while since I was living in UT when I bought it and then lived in ID for a while...both hot and dry in the summers.
The advantage of the foaming cloths is that you don't have to worry about sealing a package or about them drying out at all. A
little on them and they are foaming like crazy. They also use detergent formulations that are meant to remove oils from the skin and, in the case of the Oil of Olay cloths, put it back
They cut through sunscreen crud wonderfully at the end of the day and they can be used in hot or cold water...sometimes very cold water! My daughter (who turned me onto these) and I used them at a cold water spigot at Jerry Johnson Campground to wash up in lieu of a shower and we used them in the extremely cold water of Roosevelt Park campground in Washington.
The point being that you don't have to huck around the water in the wet wipes. The product I linked to has about 30 towelettes in it. It weighs around 9 oz with the packaging, probably closer to 5 oz once you remove the package. You can even take as many...or a few as you like.
A similar pack of moist wipes weighs in at around 10 to 12 oz and you can't get rid of the package...or the water. Plus you have to keep them sealed so that they don't dry out. I have nothing against wet wipes. I keep a pile of individually packaged ones in my truck so that I can clean the fish slime off my hands before I eat lunch while fishing. I keep a couple in my fishing backpack for the same reason. But those are small and, in the case of the backpack, insubstantial in terms of weight. But I wouldn't want to carry around a weeks worth of them.
Your original question is about saving weight. This is one small bit of weight savings. The product also just happens to do a really good job while saving that weight.