Loofah sponge (whole, dried)
A medium to strong scrub. Cable, The Natural Soap Making Book for Beginners primary source
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What it is
A whole dried loofah, the fibrous skeleton of a gourd, set in the mould or cut into slices and poured round, so each bar has a scrubbing sponge inside. Cable slices one loofah into twelve bars.
Cable, The Natural Soap Making Book for Beginners primary source
How much
No source gives a dose for soap: enter your own.
When and how
- Usually: as the lye liquid.
- Stir it in as it is.
Cable, The Natural Soap Making Book for Beginners primary source
What it does to the recipe
- It changes neither the lye nor the water: it is only weight in the bar.
Cable, The Natural Soap Making Book for Beginners primary source
Spoons and drops
- No source weighs a spoonful of it: weigh it.
INCI name
Luffa Cylindrica Fruit
Recipes that use it
Guides that discuss it
Sources
Kelly Cable, The Natural Soap Making Book for Beginners (Althea Press, 2017), Loofah Exfoliant Soap: "Loofahs are tropical gourds that look like sponges. In this recipe you will place slices of loofah into each bar of soap"; "1 loofah, cut crosswise into 12 slices" for a 3-pound batch of 12 bars; "One option is to use a lot of loofah and a little soap. I like mine as a soap bar with a loofah surprise inside".