Backcountry deodorant

[noharleyyet]

Tom Ford Oud Wood and the wind...

 

[Festus]

Like others have said. Wipes. Hit the feet and 'hotspots' nightly and I use Mitchem unscented deodorant - the dead down wind types are a little pasty or something to me.
I'll even carry a few of those expandable towels with me and do a wipe down every other day or so just before a noontime mountain nap.
We get something like this at Sportsman's, I think. In a jar on the counter 5 for $.25 or 25 for $1 IIRC.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071ZNGVV...&pd_rd_r=8c139101-62a1-11e9-b12e-253105b62179

**There is a definite procedure to follow:
1. Start at the top and wash down as far as possible.
2. Go to feet and wash up as far as possible.
3. Wash possible.

 

[Brian in Montana]

I don't really mess with deodorant when backpacking. I take a good shower the night before I leave and use some Speedstick unscented, but that's what I generally use anyway. I don't take it along. Just a bar of soap for washing hands and feet.

 

[Deleted member 16014]

I gotta say I don't get it. For those who pack it, why use antiperspirant--scented or not--when you know you are going to be sweating like crazy on a backpack hunt?
If you were single and planning on meeting your future spouse half way up the mountain that's one thing.

 

[SandyCreek]

unscented doesn't even make sense in the whitetail woods..let alone the backcountry. wind and thermals are the only things that matter

 

[WyoDoug]

It doesn’t to me either. I just maintain proper field hygiene so my hunting buddies can stand me.

 

[Karl]

Arm and Hammer Essentials Unscented deodorant works for me. I've been using it for years while whitetail hunting.

 

[griffinohara]

Baking powder. Just regular powder in a ziplock bag. You can take exactly as much as you want. It isn’t perfect but it isn’t bad.

 

[Gunner46]

Ain't no getting around it. We Stink, period. One good wiff and they are Gone. $$$$$$$ spent on trying to get around that fact will only make for a more sloppy hunt ethic. Hunt smarter, spend less.

 

[SG25]

When I am in the backcountry I carry wipes for the pits, crotch, and face.

Hopefully you don’t wipe in that order lol

 

[GlockZ]

I've been using the Nose Jammer deodorant for a few years now, it's not unscented, has a slight vanilla scent, but it does work pretty good.

 

[noharleyyet]

Testing the arm & hammer and hammer hunter combo on feral pigs this morning..

 

[dgc1963]

Heres my 2 cents I live in Pa and am a big archery hunter at home and IMO the anti sent crap just takes money out of our pockets period. I use pure lye soap year round and a free and clear laundry soap year round and hunt the wind 100% of the time
out west wipes and same lye soap if I can get a shower some place if in camp or in a stream or if we come out for any reason, since we go for 10 days we are ripe and I make most of the guys ride in the truck bed till we get to town lol cause a cow pasture smells better than we do after a long hunt

 

[OzzyDave]

Step 1: catch packrat.
Step 2: tie his legs together so he cant get away.
Step 3: rub the little fella all over your stinky bits. (Pack rats usually smell like juniper berries.)
Step 4: turn him loose and find another when he turns skanky.

I reckon if I tried this, I can imagine sheepishly telling the nurse at A&E - Well I tied up this pack rat and shoved it down my pants to clean my boy bits BUT forgot to tie the mouth.

 

[Boarmaster]

If I was looking to safe on weight but still carry some I would save a stick or package with just a few days left in it. No sense carrying around a months supply.

 

[BearFoot]

Every critter has its aroma. I'm the best smell'n sqauch in the woods! All ways mind full of wind patterns, and rinse/bath every chance I get in bone chill'n water!