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.

  • cerement@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    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

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    1 year ago

    A friend of mine uses dried sea cucumbers. pretty common in SE Asia I believe.

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    Do not use a dried sea cucumber. read thread first.

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    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.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    1 year ago

    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.

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    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.

  • Dianoga@lemm.ee
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    My partner knit (or crotcheted maybe) a mitten out of hemp. It’s held up now for several years and works great.