What are Loofahs Made Of

What are Loofahs Made Of: Bath time, spa experiences,and even common household chores just wouldn’t be the same without the humblesponge .Sponges, mostly from class Demospongiae, have been sold commercially as cleansing aids for thousands of years,and have also been used as water filters, padding for soldiers’ helmets, and for painting and decorating. Although naturalloofah sponge resemble their bathroom counterparts,they’re actually about as unrelated as it’s possible to be.The loofah you scrub with is a dried-out tropical or subtropical gourd belonging to genus Luffa (most often either species L. aegyptiaca or L. acutangula). And while no one is completely sure where it originated—as W.M. Porterfield wrote in a 1955 Economic Botany article: “cultivation of the sponge gourd is of such ancient origin that it is impossible to determine whether the original home was in Egypt or Asia”a study in 1990 indicated that it was probably first cultivated in India. ...