Baby wipes are the must-have of any bikepacking trip. Best unscented and with 99% water content. The only drawback: most conventional wet wipes are not biodegradable. But even here there are now good solutions in the common drugstores.

Let’s face it, you rarely pass a sink in the woods, so it’s not just in Covid times that it’s helpful to have a disinfectant gel handy (even if it’s just for feel and you can still roll dirty sausages).

To be able to save the last 20g of equipment, it is a good idea to shorten your toothbrush a bit and use solid toothpaste. Solid toothpaste is available at DM and is really practical. However, Steffi would only use this for shorter trips and not for tours over several weeks, as the brushing performance does not seem to be 100%.

Marie has been taking Ajona toothpaste in travel size with her for years. A pea-sized amount is enough for a decent freshness feeling with Ajona, so even the small tube is really productive.

An all-round shower gel, with which you can clean everything from head, tent, bicycle chain to cooking utensils, is available at Decathlon, for example. We make sure that these are biodegradable and leave no nasty traces in nature. Definitely saves space in your bags, in your wallet and protects the environment. For Marie, the Seba-Med Sport Shower Bath in mini size is essential on the go.

Free on the bottom? We made Margarete Stokowski’s book title our camp mantra. As soon as we found a place to sleep, we aired out our bottoms. It’s no secret that long days in the saddle, at high temperatures, leave their mark. If you want to have longer joy on the bike, there must be just times proper air. A light, airy short (under) pants of course also serves the purpose and seems more appropriate in many situations.