Of course, that's the question, which one of these various Burt's Bees products is the supposed "all-in-one" soluction? None of the sites I have reviewed say anything about that.

Craig.

My guess, and it is just a guess, is that if it will wash your hair (those of you who have hair), it will wash all of you...

I've used whatever brand of bar soap I've had for shampoo and to shave, as well as to bathe. While it's nice to have whatever shampoo you need for oily hair with volumizing for extra body with rosemary mint to enhance my smelling experience, bar soap worked fine on my hair and on my face with hot water to shave.

As a guy who has logged more takeoff and landings (as a passenger) than some commercial pilots, I can tell you why you should avoid checking bags in the way you should avoid a swarm of angry bees.

1. It adds - significantly - to your door-to-door travel time. When I fly, I go with my boarding pass in hand (printed at home or in the office) and I go directly to security. I can and do arrive 45 minutes before my flight - routinely - and make my flight with time to spare. It's more important on the landing part. I get off the plane and keep going. Waiting for your luggage to arrive can be a 45 minute debacle.

2. Lost Bags. They say it does not happen much. It's happened to me more than a few times, most recently when I went to Cyprus and my bags went to Zurich - for FOUR DAYS. I arrived for a business meeting after flying from NY to Amsterdam to Budapest to Cyprus in the same rumpled clothes I was wearing when I got on the plan at JFK the day before. I ended up spending hundreds of dollars to buy new clothes in Cyprus.

3. Stolen Goods. Aside from stories like this , I've also had items stolen from my bags in the past, and you have basically no recourse.

4. Extra Bulk. Lighten up! My family went to Disney for a WEEK and we only packed our rolling carry-ons, nothing more. You don't really need to bring too much, and you can - gasp - do laundry at your destination if you are going to be there a while.

This is the stuff I was talking about. Burt's Bees Shampoo Bar.

Yes, it's marketed as a "shampoo" bar, but it's the same stuff as the shaving soap bar and the body soap, just this one smells different.

"...you can - gasp - do laundry at your destination..."

There are many clothes that are easier to hand wash than others. Tilley for one has a whole wardrobe that can be hand washed in a sink, hung to dry, and will look reasonably neat in the morning. They are expensive, but many of their items have a lifetime warranty...

these may help. At least you know if someone used a TSA key
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Great stuff from Martin, as usual.



Whenever I travel I carry a few packets of liquid Woolite, a sink stopper, 4mm cord + safety pins (= clothesline), $3-$4 in quarters, and some powdered laundry detergent. This gives me a full range of laundry options from handwashing to machine washing. So far TSA has not had a problem with these items.

If the dress code allows, I only bring 2-3 days of clothes and plan on washing them every couple days. Works well, especially if you don't have to run around in a suit & tie.

Click here for a fantastic site regarding smart travel techniques, including carryon-only and hotel room laundry.

Every baggage thief knows that you can open a locked suitcase in seconds with a simple ballpoint pen. Just push the tip of the pen into the zipper teeth until the separate. Pop the bag open. Take what you want. Close it. Run the locked zipper runner things back and forth until it's all zipped back together again.

Something without zippers like a catalog case or a hard suitcase might help. Oh, and a decent thief can "read" the combination right off of those thumbwheel combination locks in seconds.

I never check bags unless I'm forced to.