To get the best lather out of your soap or body wash, use a bath sponge in the shower or tub. Bath sponges come in many different forms, from natural sea sponges to mesh puffs to scrubby loofahs.

Grow your own bath sponge! Luffa gourds are the familiar bath sponge. Growing your own will keep you entertained all growing season and are great fun for a long time after they are harvested. Peel ...

I was recently introduced to a large zucchini-looking vegetable and asked what I thought it might be. To my surprise, it looked very much like the Luffa (or Loofa) gourd, which belongs to the ...

Did you know your bathroom loofah might have grown from a plant? Unlike large plastic loofahs, natural luffas aren’t manmade at all—they’re actually made from dried gourds. That’s also how loofahs got ...

What started off as a way to replace plastic in the showers — by getting rid of the ‘bath loofah’ with a natural product opened my eyes to the existence of yet another bio-wonder with immense ...

I am actually amazed that I haven’t noticed this sooner. It’s also something that I am not necessarily proud to share, but I can only imagine the amount of unsuspecting loofah (bath sponge, body pouf, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You’ve probably had or used a loofah sponge in your life, whether in the bath or for cleaning around the house. But did you know ...