Odor control

[Deertick]

Like wind control, odor control is important.

Ever watch movies or TV shows about vikings, Romans, Native Americans, etc., and wonder: \"Gee, I bet they sure smelled like stink\"?

Well, maybe they didn\'t:

MORE ON THE MICROBIOME: A Hygiene Experiment. ?The tonic looks, feels and tastes like water, but each spray bottle of AO+ Refreshing Cosmetic Mist contains billions of cultivated Nitrosomonas eutropha, an ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) that is most commonly found in dirt and untreated water. AOBiome scientists hypothesize that it once lived happily on us too ? before we started washing it away with soap and shampoo ? acting as a built-in cleanser, deodorant, anti-inflammatory and immune booster by feeding on the ammonia in our sweat and converting it into nitrite and nitric oxide.?

Here\'s the link: <!-- m --><a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/magazine/my-no-soap-no-shampoo-bacteria-rich-hygiene-experiment.html?smid=pl-share&_r=1\">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/magaz ... share&_r=1</a><!-- m -->

OK ... I haven\'t read the whole article ... my first thoughts on reading the note above was the hunting applications to this technology, and I knew you guys had to know. Maybe someday, we\'ll get rid of all the scented stuff in our lives and return to something more natural.

 

[Swede]

Besides that Tick, I have read that by daily washing our hair with shampoo, and taking a shower every evening, we remove the natural barriers we develop, and expose our skin to unwanted and dangerous viruses and bacteria. I tried to explain that to my wife and she just pointed toward the shower and said go. I muttered something about spousal abuse and how cruel she is, as she continued to point and repeated the word \"go\".
This reminds me, I had better get in the shower, so I don\'t miss my favorite TV shows coming up this evening.

 

[OldMan]

I\'m not washing anything away. As a modern day mountain man. My last shower was in 2001.

Anybody want to hunt with me? :tease:

 

[mainebrdr]

I do! I\'ll stay upwind of you! Which also means I\'ll be between you and the elk :upthumb:

 

[OldMan]

You\'re learning grasshopper.

 

[Swede]

I never knew of my granddad taking a bath. There was no shower in their home. He may have bathed once in a blue moon when I was not around, but his old coat never saw anything more than rain water. The one thing I can say is, his odor reached a certain level and stayed there. Granddad was saving water well before it became fashionable. As a kid, his smell did not bother me, and I am sure it would not be a problem now. He was not like some who really stink. Maybe it is body chemistry. Maybe being a Swede, he was a distant descendent of the old Vikings Tick wrote about. Who knows.
BTW: Dad took a bath only once a week. I never noticed him stinking.
Tick: As a doctor I am sure you run into some people that are hard to treat as they stink badly. What makes these stinkers smell so much worse than others who do not bathe or shower?

 

[WW]

Ahh! The good ole days of coal oil lamps and no running water. Monday was cloths washing day and Saturday was bath day. The bath was usually taken in the same galvanized tub that you mom used to rinse cloths out in on the Monday before. The nearest think to a shower I can remember when I was a kid, was to play outside in the rain.

 

[Swede]

Back in the day, houses were tiny. Ours was between 800 & 900 square feet. The new wringer washer mom got after several years of the washboard, normally sat on the back porch, where she had the galvanized tubs. We only graduated to the large round tubs for bathing in when we out grew the large broiler/canner. I was lucky to be the oldest kid, so I got the first bath. Our house had no regular frame. It had posts with 2x4 nailed in between . To that was nailed vertical boards and battens. The inside wall was news paper to help seal out the wind. When the paper got worn or torn, you could see daylight through the walls. The inside wall was then just the back side of the board nailed to the outside. Outside was the privy. I still remember spilling a glass of water in the kitchen as a kid. The water turned to ice before I could get the mop thawed out to clean up the water. kerosene lamps were common in the winter when we lost electricity. The good old days, Yes we were happy.

 

[Zpd307]

I feel young

 

[Tenderfoot]

I feel young

No kidding! Me too.

I hunt in my backpacking boots because I cannot afford boots exclusively for hunting right now. Is there any tried and true methods of eliminating as much scent from my boots aside from the standard \" scent elimination\" products?