Greening Your Bath with Natural Bath Sponge

Aside from using natural bath soaps and bath wash that don’t use a lot of chemicals, another way to green your bath is to use natural bath sponge. If you are still using a sponge that is made from net (polyurethane) or cellulose, throw them in the trash can and replace them with loofah.

Unlike the bath sponge that is made from polyurethane and cellulose, loofah is 100% natural and is made from a vegetable. The vegetable is called Chinese okra which looks like a cucumber. When this vegetable is dried, it becomes loofah.

When you are in the store, make sure that what you are buying is 100% loofah which is made from this vegetable gourd. There are many synthetic bath sponges that are labeled as loofah in the market so beware.

Aside from being a good bath sponge to working up a lather and exfoliating, loofah also helps in the proper circulation of our body.

There is another natural bath sponge that can be used which is the sea sponge. Environmentalists do not recommend people to use this. Sea sponges are getting extinct. We have never seen many sea sponges in their habitat. Except maybe for Sponge Bob but that’s another matter.

Sea sponges are actually animals so it takes a while for them to breed. On the other hand, loofah is vegetable so we can plant as many as we want. We can even grow them in our own backyard so we can have a ready supply for natural bath sponge.

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