Drill Your Own Water Well! Alt Homes. Water Sources. Emergency Preparation, Self-Suffiency, Prepping. Floating Wick in used vegetable oil. Soda Can Stove. 3 Homemade Ways to Purify Water. Tess PenningtonActivist Post Water is the foundation of life and, as such, water preparedness is one of the most important aspects of being prepared.
That said, many are not prepared for even 1 day of water rations. Moreover, there are many who feel that storing water is a waste of time; after all, they can simply use tap water or step outside and use the water left over from storms and floods. What they do not realize is that following a severe storm, hurricane or tornado, water is contaminated and should not be used for drinking.
Flood waters are contaminated with oil, gasoline, or raw sewage which can infest city water sources and cause a number of medical issues. It is a Fact That Hospital Visits Increase Following a Short Term Emergency In fact, when short-term emergencies occur, there is an increased number of hospital visits and admissions from common diarrheal diseases, acute respiratory infections, dermatitis, and other causes. 1. Materials You Will Need: Endless hot water without electricity! Preppers. Why Prepare. Neat uses for common stuff. Survival. Primitive Technology, Traditional Skills and Hand-Made Tools. © PrimitiveWays 2014 All rights reserved.
No part, content, illustration, graphic, photo or video from this website may be copied, transferred or reproduced without express written permission from PrimitiveWays. Contact Dino Labiste (webmaster) for more information. Make A Solar Oven For $5. How To Heat Up Your Room Using Just a Candle: This heater is a multi-core steel and ceramic radiator assembly, suspended above the candle on a solid steel stand.
The radiator absorbs and concentrates the thermal energy of the candle and converts it into dry radiant space heat. If you burn candles, now you can add their heat to your home or office. There is also an “electric candle” option that uses a 60 watt quartz halogen lamp; that works out to about 6 cents for 10 hours of “burn” time. “Steel has the ability to approach the temperature of its heat source,” says the inventor, “so the solid steel inner core will go as high as 550° Fahrenheit. That high inner temperature is mitigated to a very warm 160° to 180° on the outer surface. The simple elegant design has no moving parts. What’s new for 2008 is an “electric candle” option that takes advantage of the fact that 90% of the energy that goes into an incandescent lamp is “wasted” as heat.
The electric candle is pictured below: DIY Dry Shampoo. This DIY dry shampoo recipe will sop up any excess scalp oil, and help keep you lookin’ fab and fresh on those days you need a quick hair pick-me-up and don’t have the time (or energy) for a full-on wash! Cocoa Powder Dry Shampoo What you’ll need: 5 teaspoons of cocoa powder (unsweetened)2 teaspoons of cornstarch5 drops of your favorite essential oil (I especially like peppermint) This recipe is perfect for brunettes. Blondes can swap out the cocoa powder for extra cornstarch. Homemade Soap Recipe. Grandpappy's Homemade Soap Recipe Copyright © 2007,2008 by Robert Wayne Atkins, P.E.
All rights reserved and all rights protected under international copyright law. Click Here for a Microsoft WORD printer friendly copy of this article. Introduction During hard times sooner or later everyone runs out of soap. To make soap you only need three things: rainwater,cold ashes from any hardwood fire, andanimal fat from almost any type of animal, such as a cow, pig, goat, sheep, bear, beaver, raccoon, opossum, groundhog, etc. Soap is not difficult to make and it does not require any special equipment. Soap is a "perfect consumer product" for the following five reasons: Soap is a legal product.Everyone everywhere uses soap.Soap is completely used up in a short period of time.When people run out of soap they want to buy more.Soap is relatively low in price so almost everyone can afford it.