Sleeping Bag Liners Keep Your Gear Like New

What with dirty socks and pants, and your bodily moisture/perspiration and oils, maybe when you’re out camping for example, your sleeping bag is going to get dirty. A sleeping bag liner can help reduce the impact of grime and other kinds of dirt on your bag.

The insulation ability of the fill and loft of your sleeping bag can become inhibited if they become clogged with dirt, body oils and sweat. The majority of body oils and dirt will probably be collected in your bag’s head and foot areas, given that a lot of glands involved in oil secretion are in your face. Naturally your feet get dirty with all the trekking and moving around.

You can reduce the extent of bodily oils, moisture and dirt that gets to the interior of your bag by using sleeping bag liners. You can even get away with washing your sleeping bag less often with these liners, and thus prolong its life considerably.

There are loads of different brands of bag liners; here are a few of the best:

Slumberjack “SlumberWick”; Pro Force Snugpak (a fleece sleeping bag liner); Mummy sleeping bag liner; Outbound (silk sleeping bag liner, rectangular); Ledmark Industries.

Here are a few available on Amazon…

All of these are fine choices of sleeping bag liners.

Your personal preferences obviously come into play when setting out to buy a bag liner. Silk liners are very comfortable, but they can get sticky very quickly through absorbing your sweat and bodily oils. If you sweat a lot, you should stay away from cotton liners, as they tend to retain lots of moisture.

Obviously, avoiding going to sleep in your hiking clothes will help to reduce the amount of unwanted dirt that gets into your bag liner; change into some dry clothes instead. Usually, perspiration accumulates in your clothes when you hike and carry around a lot of heavy camping gear – even though they might feel dry when you touch them – so it can be a good idea to change your clothes before you sleep in order to avoid passing this into your bag liner.