Camping is a wonderful way to get away from it all and revel in clean mountain air and the total absence of traffic noise and light pollution. However, often this rustic peace and quiet comes at a price and that price is the lack of sanitation and comfort. Using portable toilets and showers for wild camping adventures is one way that campers can avoid ‘going’ in a thorn bush and possibly running into a late night visitor of the poisonous variety.
Luckily, there is a large range of camping toilets available which you can fold up and take on your trip along with your sleeping bags and cooler box, so that you don’t have to brave the elements every time nature calls. The cheap version of these camping toilets is a cardboard box with a hole in the middle called, a ‘little Jack’s box’.
You can buy these little goodies at £15 apiece. They come with a stack of bio-degradable bags for waste and are manufactured by the dubiously named, Brown Corporation. For a festival or short-term solution these camping toilets are a winner, but for the longer term you may want to look for a camping site which provides portable showers and toilet facilities.
If you don’t mind going out and finding the best views to enjoy while you do your business, then you may consider investing in a folding camping toilet seat which has been especially designed with the ladies in mind. This camping toilet folds up neatly and discretely into an army bag for long hikes.
For happy male campers, the Japanese toilet-shaped knee pillows can make your camping toilet experience a little more comfortable and a little less messy. 
You simply kneel down on the pillows for the duration to avoid spillage or grazed knees. It may be a crazy idea, as is typical of Japanese inventions, but the portable knee pillows for toilet use come in a range of attractive pastel colours and may even come in handy after a night out at the bush bar.
Once you’ve taken care of you camping toilet needs you need to look at other portable sanitation equipment. For your ablution needs, solar showers are the way to go for a hot summer’s camping trip. They don’t make use of any solar panels, but instead, they are made from a light absorbent material. All you need to do is leave it in the sun for a few hours and you can enjoy a hot, plumbing free shower. Camping stores also supply a range of zip-up sanitation tents where you can place your portable shower units and fold-up toilets for privacy.
Fortunately, many camp adventures come with the added comfort of portable toilets and showers but for those that don’t, fold-up camping toilets and zip-up cubicles are the way to go.