Hello all! Do you recommend any eco friendly loofah alternatives, or anything really to scrub your body in the shower with. The fact that most loofahs are made from unrecyclable plastic concerns me.
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luffas are a type of cucumber, it’s their fibers that form the bathroom sponge – luffas are the original, the “unrecycled plastics” are the alternative
EDIT: as for the buy-it-for-life aspect, they’ll break down over time, but they are compostable and you can just grow new replacements
If you don’t want to use a real luffa made from the luffa gourd, you can use a simple cotton washcloth to scrub. They can last for decades, wash in the laundry with your towels, and biodegrade/compost after a long and useful life.
Amazing how many people probably don’t realize that that plastic waste abomination was preceded by a biodegradable plant option
A friend of mine uses dried sea cucumbers. pretty common in SE Asia I believe.
Edit
Do not use a dried sea cucumber. read thread first.
I’ma gonna need a better source for that, k !?..
2Nd link on duck duck go. https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/9586358/loofah-giant-dried-cucumber/
Have you made simple mistake on your original comment?
That source is about the use of dried luffa, a cucumber like vegetable.
You commented about
dried sea cucumbers
From the Wikipedia article on sea cucumbers, “they are marine animals with a leathery skin and an elongated body … found on the sea floor worldwide.”
Thus me having asked for a source.
Huh. that’s crazy. yeah. seems like I did make a mistake. not even a simple one. I need to double check my sources better.
Please accept my appologies.
So please use the dried luffa, not the poor dried sea cucumber. they didn’t harm anybody (did not verify source, it’s again what I’m assuming).
No apologies needed. Great that we got here. Cheers
You could try an actual luffa, which is from a squash-like plant.
My partner knit (or crotcheted maybe) a mitten out of hemp. It’s held up now for several years and works great.
My loofah is made from some kind of plant that’s just been hollowed and dried out. I don’t even consider those synthetic pouf things to be loofahs since they aren’t really as good at the scrubby scrub as a real one.
This somehow reminds me of the plastic industry ploy to discredit cork stoppers and thus get wine with plastic stoppers. ---- No. No, the production of cork does not require the killing of the cork oak tree.
I use a soap bag. Place a bar of soap in the bag. Soap lathers well through the loose weave. Sisal or cotton fibers exfoliate your skin as you scrub. Then hang it by the drawstring to dry after each use.
I have been using mine for several years. I do not know the brand, but these look similar: soap saver bag from Golden Forrest and sisal soap bag from Olivaris Organics.
