# Rectangle Shaped Loofah

> Long and flat, for backs and shoulders — a two-handed scrub.

- URL: https://bikli.in/product/rectangle-shaped-loofah
- Price: ₹139, GST included (MRP ₹189)
- Availability: in stock
- Department: Natural Loofah
- Plastic: no plastic in the product
- Materials: Sun-dried Luffa aegyptiaca, cotton thread
- Net quantity: 1 pad
- Shelf life: 3 years unopened
- Country of origin: India
- Manufacturer: Bikli Naturals, Bengaluru, Karnataka

## Key features

- REACHES YOUR OWN BACK — long enough to hold at both ends and pull across, which is the one job a palm-sized pad cannot do.
- CUT LENGTHWISE FROM THE GOURD — the fibre runs the long way, so it takes a two-handed pull without tearing.
- FIRM ENOUGH FOR SHOULDERS AND SPINE — the same fibre as the rest of the range, in the shape that lets you put weight behind it.
- NO PLASTIC HANDLE TO SNAP — there is nothing in it but gourd and cotton thread.
- HANG IT TO DRY — over a rail or a hook; air on both faces is the whole maintenance routine.

## Description

Cut lengthwise from the gourd and pressed flat, so there is enough of it to hold at both ends and draw across your back.

Same fibre as the rest of the range, just a shape that reaches further. Rinse, squeeze and hang it somewhere with air around it.

## Questions

### How long does a natural loofah last?

Four to six weeks for face use and two to three months for body use, if you rinse it after each use and hang it somewhere it can dry fully. The thing that shortens a loofah's life is staying wet — left in a puddle in the corner of the bath it will go soft and start to smell within a fortnight. Hung up with air around it, it will outlast several plastic sponges.

### Is a loofah better than a plastic bath sponge?

For most people, yes, on three counts: it dries out between uses so it does not sour, it makes a bar of soap go much further, and it composts instead of shedding microplastic into the water and then sitting in landfill. The one thing a synthetic sponge does better is stay soft when dry — a loofah is stiff until it meets warm water.

## Buying this

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