Small towel (cotton, from Japanese Onsen), one each | Takes a bit longer to dry than synthetic but nicer on the skin. | Very useful, easy to wash but not so fast to dry. | Still carrying the same. This is Eva's favourite travel towel. |
Travel towel (Miguel) | Packtowl Personal Hand (42x92cm) | | Used for shower. Good size, dries fast but material could be softer. |
A couple of washcloths | | Useful when washing with little water when wild camping. | Not used very much, but sometimes useful. |
Toothbrush (electrical) | Call us crazy, but this is our "luxury item"! You only get one set of teeth in your life... Oral-B 3000 | Happy with it | Battery life not so long when camping a lot. Would be great to charge on USB. But still much better than a manual toothbrush. |
Toothpaste | | | |
Solid lotion bar | For everything: face, body, hands, as lip balm... | Happy with it as it's versatile, although it tends to get very soft in hot weather. | Still mostly happy with this as it's so versatile. But it gets difficult to use in hot weather... |
Aleppo soapBar of soap (any kind) | Natural soap, can also be used for hair and clothes washing | It takes time to dry and has a tendency to get very soft. | We now have each a bar of soap in a soap box. It lasts longer (and is more environmentally friendly) than liquid shower gel. |
Comb | | | |
Small bottle of shampoo (Miguel) | | | |
Solid shampoo (Eva) | Present from a friend | Very nice and useful. | Finished it up. But as Eva washes her hair very rarely while touring, she just uses whatever is on hand. |
Nail clippers and file | | | |
Contact lenses liquid and containers | | | Still using AOSept peroxide solution, without problem. Left inside a shoe during the night. |
Spare contact lenses | | | We chose to continue using monthly contact lenses, which we find reasonably practical. Never had hygiene problems even when camping. |
Small container of bicarbonate | Can be used as deodorant, toothbrushing, removing stains, cooking... | Almost never used | Have used it as deodorant during our weeks off the bike, and to make the occasional cake! |
Dental floss | Apart from its original usage, can be used for many things (as shoestring, clothesline, etc.) | | |
Shaver (with a couple of heads for her and him) | | | |
Sun cream | | Essential, used almost every day. | We've been using whatever brand we could find, although we try to stick with the better known brands. Using SPF 50 most of the time (but minimum SPF 30). |
Mosquito spray | | Very useful a few times | Although not that much used in the end, when you need it it's so essential that it's worth carrying around. |
Clothes hand washing liquid/powder | | Used quite a lot although in Europe it is pretty easy to find washing machines. | We hand wash a lot, so we always carry a supply of hand washing powder. |
Universal sink plug + plug for small drains | | Very useful (when the sink drain is not too small...). Bought small plug in Uruguay | We noticed that our universal sink plug was not that universal after all... But it has been very useful at times. |
Clothes line and a few pegs | Relags expander | Very useful, and we bought a much longer line (actually a tent line with spanners) that we use when camping. | Both the expander and the longer line are useful (one for inside the tent when wet outside, the other for all the time) |
Clothes net for washing delicates | | Useful to try to preserve merino t-shirts from getting holes in them. | Eva uses it for dirty laundry and for washing delicates. |
A few wet wipes | | Not used | We now used them up just because we had them, but could have done without. |
Women's department: Menstrual cup (Lunette) and washable panty liners (Lunapads) | No waste and no need to shop for tampons or pads | Very happy, most practical thing ever. | Still happy and thinking that this is a must-have for travelling women. |