can i use my urine as a face wash to save water ?

Answer 1

Sure, and it can double as an aftershave for the astringent quality.

You won't get any dates, but you'll be clean-shaven

Answer 2

unless you live in a area where there is a shortage of water like in some countries, i don't really think it's a good idea because Urine contains several toxins like uric acid, urea and ammonia which can burn the skin and even sting your eyes or maybe worse!
(by the time you purify your urine is it really worth it?)

so my advice is let urine go as waste and use proper face wash that you know is safe and will not harm your skin or just stick to using water!

this might also stop the word going around that your a "piss head" or similar comments!

stick to what you know best!

good luck!

Answer 3

Urine is waste in a liquid form. You want to use it as a face wash, and so it will not keep you clean, as all the waste products are going to go back into your system, as they will be absorbed through your skin. You will smell really really bad as well, and people wont like you anymore!!!

Answer 4

ofcourse you can
good heavens
Moses was doing this all the time ,when he was in the dessert ,
you got a great idea here ,you should patent it
you could give it religious conotations
when you do the advertising

like


save on the water
for what ever its worth
think of the earth

too good too miss
clean your face with P+ss
this is not odd
you´ll be closer to God


and it also keeps mosquitos away


and everybody else

Answer 5

Urine is composed of the water you drink and the toxic from your body. If you use it to wash you will smell. Without water there is no urine so drink water and use water and put urine where it belongs, TOILET

Answer 6

Only if you come from a place with water shortage.
To the ignorant, there are some inland countries where citizens may have to resort to such measures to maximise their water resources.
Just think of Afghan...

Answer 7

Hmm... if you go around it very cleverly then yeah. I recall 'Waterworld' where Kevin Costner's character purified his urine to make it into clear water to drink (doesn't sound appealing I admit).

There are people who drink their own urine so I suppose you can wash your face in it if you wanted to. I'd rather not, thank you.

Found this little article online:

**Urine collected and purified separately**

From an environmental and cost perspective, it is a good idea to collect and purify urine separately, rather than simply allowing it to flow into the sewer, according to Delft University of Technology researcher Jac Wilsenach, who on Monday June 26 will receive his PhD degree based on this research subject. Wilsenach estimates that substantial savings on energy costs can be achieved and moreover that raw materials can be reclaimed.

Applying this research can lead to revolutionary changes in waste water management.

Urine accounts for less than 1% of our waste water, but it contains 50-80% of the nutrients in the waste water.

For this reason, it is extremely burdensome for our sewer water purification installations. In fact, it is illogical to allow such a dirty waste water flow to mix with other waste water, as has occurred in our sewers for more than a hundred years.

There is growing support therefore for collecting and purifying urine separately. By separating urine, phosphate and nitrogen are more effectively removed.

Phosphate can even be reclaimed as a raw material. Urine accounts for at least 50% of the phosphate in waster waste, (with phosphate being a raw material of limited availability), and for 80% of the nitrogen found in the waste water.

In Sweden and other countries, experiments have been conducted involving separate urine-collections. Delft University of Technology PhD candidate Jac Wilsenach researched – supported by a STOWA grant – the possibilities and consequences of following this principle in the Netherlands.

He concluded that if 50% of the urine is separately purified, it would save 25% of the energy needed for the entire purification system.

Moreover, the stench of the sewer will be lessened, environmental pressure on the surface water will be reduced, and sewer pipes will be better protected against rot.

A requirement for separating urine is an appropriate toilet (on which men also sit to urinate) or a dry urinal, both of which are commercially available.

The urine is collected in tanks on a per building or neighbourhood basis and must then be - preferably as undiluted as possible - periodically transported to a special purification installation.

It is also possible to process the urine in a decentralized manner - concepts for this were developed in the research.
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There you go... hope I have helped in some way!!

Check out various links (in source) on the issue of purifying your urine. Good Luck!

Answer 8

Why not..even conserve more water if you drink it too..then wash your face whenever needed.

Answer 9

Urine is our waste product, liquid when drunk goes on to carry toxins out of our body.......why would anyone even think of using it again, it'll be full of bacteria and other unpalatable things.....

Answer 10

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