r/humanure • u/galacticpeonie • Feb 01 '26

For those who don't like Nature's Head composting toilets.. what is your better alternative?

In the market for a composting toilet. Trying to make a suite feel comfortable with a solid composting toilet that is easy to clean and offers urine diversion that can be piped to location of choice. What are the best options out there right now?

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u/asigop Feb 01 '26

My favorite is a 5 gallon bucket. No need for urine diversion and the compost I make is absolute top tier.

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u/Schnicklefritz987 Feb 02 '26

Came here to second this statement. Started with a natures head. It’s sitting outside now, with nature, because the company knows how crappy (pun intended) their product is designed but they have zero interest in fixing the issues because they make too much money from their current models and even invested more money into a more compact version of their original shitty model. Tried natures head for 7 months. 2+ years later and the 5 gallon bucket under a wooden seated throne beats that abhorrent product any day!

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u/CoolPlantGrandpa Jul 30 '26

What didnt you like about nature's head? I cant afford one but it looked like the ideal for me but thinking I'll just end up using the bucket method since everyone here thinks its better anyhow

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u/Schnicklefritz987 Jul 30 '26

Completely flawed design top to bottom. The urine diverter container requires you to completely open the entire catchment system to empty it—so your poo container is opening that frequently, which wouldn’t be a problem if the system actually composted fast enough, but you end up with a mess of spinning shit and toilet paper collected around a round mixer in a square container. You end up needing to completely dump the entire system into a composting pile anyway and trying to clean out the shit mixer is not a task anyone wants to do. The theory is wonderful, the marketing fantastic, the product is absolute garbage, same with the company.

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u/d20wilderness Feb 06 '26

Honestly the bucket set up is 1000x better than the nature's head. I have one and it sits under my bus with the rest of the junk I'm forgetting about. It's like they designed it bad on purpose. You could use bags if you want and have a separate area for pee. If you use a nature's head you WILL end up peeing too much and having leaks and when you remove it from the toilet it spills sometimes. Emptying the poop is also terrible and it will end up getting into the area the bolts that hold it closed go so those get poo on them too. The stir also doesn't work very well and there will be unmixed stuff in the bottom. Just have a bucket for poo, for pee, and sawdust or another dry absorbant material. What are your plans for the poop? 

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u/bikemandan Jul 24 '26

Check out the offerings from Separett. I like their designs (but pricey of course)

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u/B230f Aug 12 '26

I’m looking at a Separett Tiny for our RV. We’ve been using a C-Head toilet and it’s a fail for female anatomy when it comes to urine separation. Impossible to keep urine out of the main composting chamber (a plastic bucket).
But Separett’s urine diverter looks a lot better than the C-Head’s.
If you buy a Separett please do message me or post a response to this comment with your experience. Thanks!

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u/bikemandan Aug 12 '26

I have one myself (although its the Villa and not the Tiny). Its a good design and I like it. Company seems helpful as well when Ive reached out to them