Your Bathing Sponge Is Actually Made From This Vegetable

While we have been calling it several names such as ridge gourd, torai, ghiura, chokha and what not, you wouldn't believe that ridge gourd is the same vegetable that can be grown to full maturity and be used as a bathing sponge. Yes, we’re talking about ridge gourd. You didn’t see that coming, did you? 

Though we make use of the name 'ridge gourd' in everyday language, the interesting fact about it is that if the vegetable is left to ripen and dried on the vine branch, it turns into a fruit. When the skin is peeled, you’ll be amazed to see that it only consists of a very fibrous skeleton and seeds. This is the loofah that we use to exfoliate and scrub our bodies. Who knew that a vegetable which we eat daily can be converted into a bathing sponge? Since it is 100% organic, loofah is the real deal. The other nylon sponges in the market are basically not loofahs. They are just sponges.  

The idea of using loofah is very ethical and eco-friendly. Hence, more people should consider making the switch to loofah, or should we say luffa?