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EntertainmentWilderness Survival Skills

How to Deal with Being Sprayed by a Skunk

Instructions

  • Step 1: Prepare mixture Mix the peroxide, baking soda, and soap or lemon juice in a bucket.
  • : Keep the soap and peroxide mixture away from your eyes and mouth.
  • Step 2: Collect ingredients for mixture Remove your clothing and get into a bathtub or shower stall.
  • Step 3: Lather up Dip the wash cloth in the soap mixture and lather your body generously.
  • TIP: Skunk spray can sting your eyes; flush them with cold water to relieve discomfort.
  • Step 4: Rinse Rinse off. Repeat as needed.
  • Step 5: Mix ingredients to get rid of smell from clothing If your clothes are stinky and can withstand the bleaching aspect of peroxide, prepare a fresh batch of the same mixture and wash them in it.
  • FACT: Skunks are blind for their first three weeks of life.

You Will Need

  • A bucket
  • 1 qt. 3 percent hydrogen peroxide
  • 1 c. baking soda
  • A wash cloth
  • 1 tsp. hand soap
  • dish soap
  • or lemon juice

Lessons in this Guide

How to Make a Solar Still

How to Pick the Right Snowshoes

How to Identify Scat

How to Sharpen a Jackknife

How to Orienteer

How to Deal with Being Sprayed by a Skunk

How to Make an Atlatl

How to Track Animals

How to Spot a Sasquatch

How to Tan a Hide

How to Make Fire with a Bow Drill

How to Avoid Avalanches

How to Build a Lean-To

How to Boil Water with Hot Stones

How to Use Binoculars

How to Make a Bow and Arrow

How to Make Aspirin If You Are Lost in the Woods

How to Build a Desert Shelter

How to Make a Mud Hut

How to Build a Wigwam

How to Pack a Backpack

How to Start a Fire with an Aluminum Can & a Chocolate Bar

How to Avoid a Snakebite

How to Get Rid of Chiggers

How to Start a Fire without Kindling

How to Keep Warm Sleeping in the Forest

How to Build an Igloo

How to Walk In Snowshoes

How to Build a Snow Fort

How to Remove Porcupine Quills

How to Make a Bonfire

How to Protect Food from Animals While Camping

How to Set Up a Slackline

How to Treat a Snakebite

How to Build a Campfire

How to Recognize & Avoid Poison Ivy

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