Eco friendly loofah alternatives?

luffas are a type of cucumber, it’s their fibers that form the bathroom sponge – luffas are the original, the “unrecycled plastics” are the alternative

EDIT: as for the buy-it-for-life aspect, they’ll break down over time, but they are compostable and you can just grow new replacements

If you don’t want to use a real luffa made from the luffa gourd, you can use a simple cotton washcloth to scrub. They can last for decades, wash in the laundry with your towels, and biodegrade/compost after a long and useful life.

A friend of mine uses dried sea cucumbers. pretty common in SE Asia I believe.

Edit

Do not use a dried sea cucumber. read thread first.

This somehow reminds me of the plastic industry ploy to discredit cork stoppers and thus get wine with plastic stoppers. ---- No. No, the production of cork does not require the killing of the cork oak tree.

My partner knit (or crotcheted maybe) a mitten out of hemp. It's held up now for several years and works great.

My loofah is made from some kind of plant that's just been hollowed and dried out. I don't even consider those synthetic pouf things to be loofahs since they aren't really as good at the scrubby scrub as a real one.