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    Posted: 22 Nov 2009 at 7:03pm
Don't use bar soap in your camper.  When you use bar soap the dissolved soap reforms on the drain pipes and holding tank.

Use paper towels to wipe off cooking pots and pans after frying anything.  That way you won't get the grease into your gray water tank.  The paper towels in turn make a great fire starter.

You can replace all the inside lights in your camper with fluorescent lights saving your battery and cutting a LOT of heat production.  You might also be able to use LED's which would be even better.

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Posts: 663 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Nov 2009 at 7:12pm
Good to know about the bar soap.  Would using something like "Simple Green" or other product help to remove it?  I don't cook so no problem with greaseStar.

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I don't know how it could be removed.  Grease and solid soap are nasty.  It does the same thing in your home pipes also.Dead

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PS:  I think dynamite would remove it!LOL
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Here's some tips for using coffee filters:

 1. Cover  bowls or dishes when cooking in the  microwave.   Coffee filters make excellent  covers. 

2.  Clean windows and  mirrors.  Coffee filters are lint-free so 
they'll leave windows  sparkling. 
3.   Protect China.  Separate your good dishes by putting a coffee  filter between each dish.

4.   Filter broken cork from wine.  If you break the cork when opening a wine  bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.

5.   Protect a cast-iron skillet.  Place a coffee filter in the skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust.

6.   Apply shoe polish.  Ball up a lint-free coffee filter. 

7.   Recycle frying oil.  After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined with a coffee filter.

8.   Weigh chopped foods.  Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a  kitchen scale. 

9.   Hold tacos.  Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy  foods. 

10. Stop the soil from leaking out of a plant pot.  Line a plant 
pot with a coffee filter to prevent the soil from going 
through  the drainage holes.

11.   Prevent a Popsicle from dripping.  Poke one or two holes as 
needed in a coffee filter.

12.   Do you think we used expensive strips to wax eyebrows?  Use strips of coffee filters.

13.   Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, 
 chicken  fingers, etc on them.  Soaks out all the grease. 

14.   Keep in the bathroom.  They make great "razor nick fixers."  
OH YEAH THEY ARE GREAT TO USE IN YOUR 
COFFEE MAKERS


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Hmm.  I modded my popup several years ago, adding some PVC pipes to bring the shower and sink drains together on the street side.  Don't know why but Coleman had the shower drain on the curb side, right where people would be sitting under the canopy.  Anyway, 2/3 of the system had to be removed for transit so I always got a good look at the inside of the pipes.  Never saw any buildup from soap or grease, with 3-4 weeks of use every year for 5 years.  Maybe Ivory soap is an exception?  I could see this in a house with regular use.
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 I use this stuff for everything- it makes me feel "green", but can you really trust anything that washes dishes, clothes AND hair?? Confused
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I never heard of Campsuds before.  How does it work?  Where do you get it?

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I've seen it in just about every camping section of every store- including WalMart where I actually bought it last. It is also marketed (or sold) under the name "Camp Soap" in the same looking bottle. I haven't been brave enought to use it to shampoo, but it does a good job on dishes- and we keep it by the sink to occasionally wash hands too. It has a flip top spout so it's easy to use.
 
I prefer to use alcohol foam for hands after a bathroom trip (Purell) because that is what we use in the hospital and we teach student nurses it is more effective than soap and water. Just rub and no water/no drying needed- so really convient and healthier while camping.
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Originally posted by Tusten Traveler

I use this stuff for everything- it makes me feel "green", but can you really trust anything that washes dishes, clothes AND hair??
 
LOL.  Similar to the Dr. Bronner's line of soaps.  I think its supposed to be good for dishes, hair, paint removal and the cure for global warming.  Seriously though, the peppermint version is very good at getting fleas off of animals.  A vet told us years ago and we tried it (the bar soap variety) and after lathering up our cat and holding him (fighting him) in the tub you could literally see the fleas jump off of him and onto the tub walls.
 
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Posts: 95 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 Apr 2011 at 3:10pm
We used the liquid peppermint castille soap on a trip abroad for hand washing clothes, supposed to be able to use it while backpacking for everything from hands to brushing teeth, doing dishes and washing clothes. Certainly made the clothes smell good!
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