Nature’s best toilet paper substitutes
Slippery elm leaves, Osage orange, and the large, soft leaves of the mullein plant can work as toilet paper substitutes. (Alamy Stock Photo/Dave Hurteau/)This story originally featured on Field & Stream.As I write this, Charmin, Cottonelle, and Downy Soft toilet paper, to name a few, are “currently unavailable” on Amazon. This verifies what you’ve always suspected: When things get scary in the US, the first thing most of us think about is pooping. The average American goes through 30 rolls of toilet paper. a year, which is kind of impressive but still not a reason to stock an entire wall of your basement with them. Seventy percent of the world’s population doesn’t even use bathroom tissue. They use a variety of things, including, in some countries, the left hand. I have no intention of covering that technique here.People have always devoted a lot of thought to cleaning their backsides. As...