Hygiene

Soap and other detergents

3 February 2011

It is really important to keep clean and you need soap to keep clean. Washing hands and bodies uses a lot of soap. But how much? For our 3 person family we go through about 1 bar of soap a week for bathing and about 1 bar a month for washing hands.
So we need to [...]

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Reflections on a Day Without Water

4 November 2010

A few days ago we had some work done on the water system and so the water was out for part of the day. Not a big deal really, we had plenty of drinking water on hand and since there was warning we even filled up the bathtub so we could flush the toilet.
I also [...]

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