How To Build The Ultimate Wash Station For Car Camping

In this article, you will learn how to quickly and easily build the ultimate wash station for car camping.  This will work to wash your hands and your dishes.  You should try it out on your next outdoor adventure.  This wash station works best for car camping.  And if your car will be your home base, this station will work for hiking, climbing, and any other outdoor activity.

This style of wash station is quick, easy, and one-hand operational.  Once you try it, you’ll take it on all of your outdoor trips.

Water Container

For my first Wash Station, I used an old Tide Laundry Soap container.  It took me many rinses to clear out the detergent residue.  And for the first few times of using container, it still had a faint smell of detergent.  I even wrote “WASH HANDS & DISHES ONLY” on the side so that no one would mistakenly drink this water.

Now that I’ve used it so many times, there is no soap smells.

But if you are not comfortable with re-using a laundry soap container, just buy a jug made for this exact purpose.  Most grocery stores are going to carry a similar style to the one pictured here.  If you can’t find one, Coleman makes on that is very affordable.

Soap

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