Here’s a handmade product that’s ideal for fans of sleeping in the outdoors: Camper’s  Soap-To-Go. Made by crafty mom Angie, this solid product comes in its own push-up plastic tube. The twist on/off cap ensures it won’t make a mess of your toiletry bag or backpack. It’s more sanitary, more convenient and less messy than a bar of soap in a plastic container or Ziploc bag. The solid soap is also a bonus if you’re flying with only carry-on luggage and have little room in your quart-size bag of liquid toiletries.

I used this tube o’ soap while bathing in the lake during a houseboating trip to Lake Powell this summer, as well as while showering in a campground bathhouse. Honestly, in both places (makeshift natural bathtub and shower) the soap is hard to get sudsy. With a bar of soap, you can rub it around in your hands to make suds, whereas with Camper’s Soap-to-Go and the small amount of solid product that sticks out from the tube, it’s just difficult to get those suds going. I found it a bit easier to make suds when I scraped some of the soap off with my fingernail and had a small bit to rub around in my hands.

Ingredients include coconut oil, safflower oil and palm oil, so it does feel very moisturizing on my skin. Essential oils of citronella, lavender and black pepper are also present, and I definitely smell the citronella the most — all the better, I suppose, to blend in with the typical scents of a campsite.

Each push tube retails for $3.75, and you can buy refills for $2. Angie also sells Soap-To-Go in 50 (!) other scents — from bubble gum to key lime pie to root beer — as well as super-cute novelty items for kids, such a soap shaped and colored to look just like pizza, popcorn and cupcakes. I think any of these soaps would make great stocking stuffers. View all of the products on Angie’s Suds N’ Such online.