Jay Angler wrote:I just asked a bunch of questions here: https://permies.com/t/278058/people-growing-toilet-paper-Plectranthus#2921507
About plant alternatives to toilet paper.
Since the wool is biodegradable, would it work in a Willow Feeder/ bucket compost system as a butt wipe?
Would it be practical and comfy, or yucky and useless?
I don't have an easy source, so no way to test it, but I expect there are some permies out there that do.
Wool would make a decent butt wipe, although depending on where on the sheep you get it from, you would probably want to wash it to prevent parasite transmission. The lanolin in the wool would do extra credit to soften and moisturize your bum, so you may want to wash it at around
water heater range (~120ºF) to ensure some of the lanolin doesn't completely wash out.
As with anything there's a sliding scale in the quality of butt wipe you can make with wool. Washing at lower temps to retain lanolin and then carding it would be my choice. You could also felt it and use it in strips. In all cases, wool will break down nicely in a bio-digester.